Events
In preparation for its twelfth special session of the Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) to be held from 20th to 22nd February 2012 in Nairobi, UNEP is organizing the thirteenth Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF-13) from 18th -19th February 2012 in Nairobi. This forum is meant to facilitate Major Groups and Stakeholders of...
Today, a multitude of agents plays a significant role in earth system governance, ranging from traditional state actors to international organizations, civil society organizations, science networks, city coalitions, or business associations. At the same time, the overall governance architecture, from local to global levels, is becoming more complex as a consequence of ever increasing needs for...
The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science (under the auspices of UNESCO) and WWF will co-organise a symposium on the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention. The aim of the symposium is to gather together a wide and diverse range of viewpoints from academia, government, international organisations, and civil society, to debate the existing and...
From 9 to 20 July 2012, the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) will convene an ICAP Summer School on Emissions Trading for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries in Dublin, Ireland. Designed for 25-30 carefully selected policy makers and other stakeholders from the nongovernmental, academic and private sectors, the course will convey an in-depth understanding of emissions...
EUROSOLAR Turkey (The Turkish section of European Association of Renewable Energy) ivited you to the IRENEC 2012 2nd International 100% Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 28-30 June 2012.The Conference will set up an international platform to discuss the technical, economic and political aspects of a global transition to 100% renewable...
A three day gathering at Stanford University of global policy-makers, practitioners, and innovators on the use of connection technologies (SMS, mobile, web, etc.) to advance sustainable development solutions in the fields of health, the environment, agriculture, and sustainable economic growth. We will explore existing and proposed technologies and the opportunities as well as attributes of the...
The Aquatic Ecology Centre, Kathmandu University, and Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University in collaboration with the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), University of Life Sciences, Norway, invite papers and posters from scholars and researchers to be presented at the symposium on “Mountain Resource Management in a Changing Environment” to be held in...
The Green Paper On forest protection and information in the EU “Preparing forests for climate change” underlines that forests are not only the natural shrine of Biodiversity for richness in species and abundance of endemisms but also provide job opportunities, environmental income, material source of wealth, goods and services at both local and regional scales, stabilize soils,...
GLOBE Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme Sparking Global Conversation on ‘Road to Rio+20’The GLOBE Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) to offer multiple platforms for thinking, dialogue and action by the worldwide financial services and investment community in the run up to the United Nations...
The aim of the ICEST conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to Environmental Science and Technology. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and...