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2021 P4G Seoul Summit
Over the course of the two-day Summit, participants explored how these sectors of society can partner together to reach the twin goals of an inclusive green recovery and carbon neutrality by 2050.
Green Future Week
Options to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, avoiding future pandemics, and strategic spending of pandemic recovery packages featured prominently in a week that emphasized, "Partnership is the new leadership."
4th Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (ExMOP-4) and 1st Part of the 43rd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG43)
Parties met online to address issues around funding the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, agreeing to facilitate payments until replenishment negotiations are complete later this year, and provide guidance to the Replenishment Task Force.
2021 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Executive Bureau Meetings
UCLG officially joined the UHC2030 initiative to achieve universal health care and progressed the proposed Lampedusa Charter, which aims to shift the narrative on migration to a human rights-based approach to mobility.
3rd Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-3)
After six weeks of virtual negotiations, delegates agreed approval of any draft decisions will be postponed until parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity can meet in person, to finalize preparations for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
73rd Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
The CITES Standing Committee agreed to give input to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, work on the African Carnivores Initiative, and conduct a risk analysis for future meetings amid the pandemic.
24th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-24)
After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, more than 1,400 representatives of parties and observers met online to advance preparations for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, scheduled for October 2021 in China. Adoption of final draft decision documents was deferred until the meeting can resume in person.
16th Session of the UNFF
With the world focused on COVID-19, global economic shocks, and climate change, UNFF16 met to remind the world that forests provide multiple socio-economic and environmental services and can help address these crises.
53rd bis Session of the IPCC (IPCC-53 bis)
Delegates sought to advance the intergovernmental process around the IPCC’s influential climate change reports despite the pandemic, the virtual setting, and simmering tensions.