The nearly USD 700 million Work Program approved focuses heavily on chemicals and waste at a time when the GEF hopes to prove to the multilateral community it has the capacity to serve as the financial mechanism for a global plastics treaty and that it could play a significant role in realizing the vision of the Global Framework on Chemicals.

Negotiators will have three days to resolve the pending decisions from biodiversity negotiations in Colombia, including on resource mobilization, the GBF monitoring framework, and the financial mechanism.

IPCC delegates will gather to review draft work on key elements of their Seventh Assessment Report—including draft outline of each Working Group—as well as the IPCC Trust Fund Programme and budget for the years 2024 to 2027.

The seventy-eighth meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will consider cooperation with other multilateral environmental agreements, the transport of live specimens, specimens produced through biotechnology, and the role of CITES in reducing the risk of potential zoonotic disease emergence associated with international wildlife trade.