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How to Make Hybrid Meetings Work
All three Rio Conventions announced in-person meetings for the final quarter of 2021. The trio of organizations—UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)—all seem to be going ahead full steam. The UNFCCC Bureau just announced it will hold three weeks of informal talks in June and agreed decision making is an in-person affair, to occur at the next formal meeting. (The day after this article was originally published, the UNCCD announced its COP will take place in 2022. A virtual ExCOP will adopt an interim budget this year.)
Highlights and images for 26 April 2021
16th Session of the UNFF
Highlights and images for 27 April 2021
16th Session of the UNFF
Highlights and images for 28 April 2021
16th Session of the UNFF
Highlights and images for 29 April 2021
16th Session of the UNFF
1st Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
During the first Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which met in Singapore from 9-13 December 1996, delegates took stock of the operation of the rules-based multilateral trading system, addressed issues regarding implementation, and determined the future course of activities of the WTO.
Achievements of the first Ministerial Conference included the completion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and the adoption of the Comprehensive and Integrated Plan of Action designed to lend further assistance to the least developed countries in accessing and sharing the benefits of the rules-based multilateral trading system. Exhaustive discussions took place on core labor standards, investment and competition policy, and, to a lesser extent, government procurement and implementation of agreements on agriculture and textiles. New working groups were established to examine the relationship between trade and the areas of investment, competition policy and government procurement. In addition, the Committee on Trade and Environment was established as a permanent body of the WTO.
Daily report for 9 December 1996
1st Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Highlights and images for 25 May 2021
High-Level Dialogue on Energy Technical Working Groups