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13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)
At the meeting, participants dug into Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) issues, such as license areas and ASM zones; voluntary principles on security and human rights; voluntary sustainability initiatives for the mining sector; interactions between large-scale mining and ASM; development minerals and the SDGs; and women in ASM, among other issues.
46th Session of the IPCC (IPCC-46)
As Hurricane Irma pounded the Caribbean, and weather and other natural disasters filled the news, delegates gathered in Montreal to approve the draft outlines of the three Working Group reports, which, together with the SYR, make up the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report