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Exploring Environmental, Economic, and Legal Aspects of Deep-sea Mining
This event was organized under Oceans20, an initiative of the Brazilian presidency of the G20, scientists and policymakers focused on scientific, environmental, economic, and legal aspects of deep-sea mining.
61st Session of the IPCC (IPCC-61)
Delegates agreed on some of the critical building blocks for the seventh assessment cycle, including the outlines for a Special Report on Cities and Climate Change and a methodological report on short-lived climate forcers. They could not agree on the Strategic Planning Schedule for the cycle.
27th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry
Delegates approved recommendations on the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) work on urban forestry, forestry’s contribution to FAO’s work on climate change and integrated water management, agriculture and forestry linkages, a forest-based bioeconomy, and integrated wildfire management.
Societies in Harmony with Nature: Building sustainable and resilient communities through the implementation of the Satoyama Initiative and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity
Aligned with the HLPF 2024 theme on “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions” this side event highlighted the role of COMDEKS in achieving the SDGs and key targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
SDG 6 and Water Action Agenda Special Event
The full-day event brought leaders from governments, Indigenous Peoples, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector together at UN Headquarters to discuss opportunities to move the water agenda forward.
2nd Part of the 29th Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority
As well as talks that may shape the negotiations on deep-sea mining, some ISA members have suggested an additional agenda item on a general policy of the ISA for the protection and preservation of the marine environment. The Assembly is also expected to hold elections for the position of ISA Secretary-General.
Science Day at HLPF 2024
Participants at the HLPF special event identified steps to make science more interdisciplinary and mechanisms to enhance the science-policy interface to accelerate SDG implementation.
High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2024)
Against a troubling geopolitical backdrop, the annual session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will convene under the theme “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises" while 38 countries will present SDG progress reports.
46th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
How will parties fund new atmospheric monitoring sites? How is the Protocol managing implementation challenges? Should it regulate new substances, which may or may not have ozone-depleting potential? How will parties address trade in obsolete equipment? Delegates began to answer these questions and more.