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	JANUARY *Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc* Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 21-25 January 2008, Palais des Nations, Geneva Second Pew Whale Symposium “A change in climate for whales”** 30-31 January 2008, UN University headquarters, Tokyo, Japan


	FEBRUARY *Second meeting of the Ad Hoc* Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas of the CBD 11-15 February 2008, UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) headquarters, Rome, Italy Thirteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the CBD 18-22 February 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Tenth Special Session of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum 20-22 February 2008, Principality of Monaco Expert Group Meeting on Land for Sustainable Urbanisation in Africa 21-22 February 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) Industry Joint Seminar on Diffusion of Climate-Friendly Technologies in Asian Countries** 21-22 February 2008, Beijing, China


	MARCH Washington International Renewable Energy Conference 2008 4-6 March 2008, Washington, DC, United States of America UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Expert Group Meeting on Methods and Tools and on Data and Observations under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change (NWP) 4-7 March 2008, Mexico City, Mexico UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on socioeconomic information under the NWP on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change 10-12 March 2008, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Seventh round of informal consultations of the States parties to the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 11-12 March 2008, UN headquarters, New York *Fifth Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc* Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Protocol on Biosafety 12-19 March 2008, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia First African Water Week** 26-28 March 2008, Tunis, Tunisia First session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA 1) and first part of the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties (AWG-KP 5) under the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC 31 March - 4 April 2008, Bangkok, Thailand


	APRIL Fourth Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands 7-11 April 2008, Hanoi, Viet Nam Twenty-Eighth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 9-10 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary Seventeenth meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Plants Committee and Twenty-third meeting of the CITES Animals Committee 15-24 April 2008, Geneva, Switzerland International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa 16-18 April 2008, Dakar, Senegal Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group on Marine Biodiversity to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction 28 April - 2 May 2008, UN headquarters, New York


	MAY Sixteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 5-16 May 2008, UN headquarters, New York Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4) 12-16 May 2008, Bonn, Germany Global Renewable Energy Forum 18-21 May 2008, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP 9) (Main) 19-30 May 2008, Bonn, Germany CBD COP 9 (Side Events) 19-30 May 2008, Bonn, Germany UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) High-Level Policy Dialogue 27 May 2008, Bonn, Germany


	JUNE AWG-LCA 2, second part of the AWG-KP 5, and twenty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body (SB 28) for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the UNFCCC (Main) 2-13 June 2008, Bonn, Germany AWG-LCA 2, second part of the AWG-KP 5, and SB 28 for SBSTA and the SBI of the UNFCCC (Side Events) 2-13 June 2008, Bonn, Germany High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy 3-5 June 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Twelfth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment 7-12 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa First Extraordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for Cooperation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region (the Abidjan Convention) 10 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa Ninth meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea 23-27 June 2008, UN Headquarters, New York Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 23-27 June 2008, Bali, Indonesia First Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum 24–26 June 2008, Grenada UNFCCC Workshop on Methodological Issues relating to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries 25–27 June 2008, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan


	JULY Fifty-seventh meeting of the CITES Standing Committee 14-18 July 2008, Geneva, Switzerland


	AUGUST AWG-LCA 3 and first part of the AWG-KP 6 under the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC 21-27 August 2008, Accra, Ghana First Inter-ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa 26–29 August 2008, Libreville, Gabon Twenty-Ninth Session of the IPCC and Twentieth Anniversary of the IPCC 31 August - 4 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland


	SEPTEMBER Africa Carbon Forum 3-5 September 2008, Dakar, Senegal Country-Led Initiative on Financing for Sustainable Forest Management in support of the UN Forum on Forests 8–12 September 2008, Paramaribo, Suriname Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety 15-19 September 2008, Dakar, Senegal Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds 15-19 September 2008, Antananarivo, Madagascar Africa Commission Thematic Conference on Climate Change in Africa 18 September 2008, Nairobi, Kenya High-Level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs, High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals, and other related events 22-25 September 2008, UN headquarters, New York, US


	OCTOBER *Second Meeting of the Ad-Hoc* Open Ended Working Group to Review and Assess Measures to Address the Global Issue of Mercury 6-10 October 2008, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya The Kyoto Mechanisms - Key to combating climate change? - A discussion 9 October 2008, New York City, New York, US Fourth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 13-17 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland European Forest Week 21-24 October 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Open-ended Legal and Technical Working Group for the second International Conference on Chemicals Management 21-24 October 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 27-31 October 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands** 28 October - 4 November 2008, Changwon, Republic of Korea


	NOVEMBER Forty-fourth Session of the International Tropical Timber Council and Associated Sessions fo the Committees 3-8 November 2008, Yokohama, Japan *Seventh Session of the Committee for the Review of the UNCCD and* First Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology 3-14 November 2008, Istanbul, Turkey North American Workshop on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) 6-7 November 2008, Washington, DC, United States of America International Conference - “The European Forest-Based Sector: Bio-Responses to Address New Climate and Energy Challenges?”** 6-8 November 2008, Nancy, France Ad hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) 10-12 November 2008, Putrajaya, Malaysia Better Air Quality Workshop 2008 12-14 November 2008, Bangkok, Thailand Twentieth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and Eight Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (MOP-20/COP-8) 16-20 November 2008, Doha, Qatar Executive Committee and Technical Advisory Committee of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) 24-28 November 2008, Nairobi, Kenya


	DECEMBER Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP 9) - (Main) 1-5 December 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy CMS COP 9 - (Side Events) 1-5 December 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań (Main) 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań (Side Events) 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland Forest Day 2 6 December 2008, Poznań, Poland Development and Climate Days 6-7 December 2008, Poznań, Poland Second Meeting on International Cooperation on Migratory Sharks Under the Convention on Migratory Species 6-8 December 2008, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy Business Day at COP 14 9 December 2008, Poznań, Poland Fifteenth Session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Africa (CIFAA) 9-11 December 2008, Lusaka, Zambia


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