28TH SESSIONS OF THE UNFCCC SUBSIDIARY BODIES
Bonn-Germany, 2-13 June 2008
The 28th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany from 2-13 June 2008.
28th Session of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies
Bonn-Germany, 2 - 13 June 2008
The 28th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) – are scheduled to take place from 2-13 June 2008, in Bonn, Germany. In addition, the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action, a new body established at COP 13 in Bali, is expected to be held alongside the SBI and SBSTA. The resumed fifth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol will also be held at the same time.
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13th International Peat Congress
Tullamore-Ireland, 8-14 June 2008
Every four years, through its Congress, the International Peat Society provides an opportunity for peatland and peat scientists and practitioners to share knowledge and experience with the wider peatland family. It also provides opportunities for personal interaction, informal meetings and exchanges of view, and to see the faces behind the e-mails of the previous four years.
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CARBOPEAT: www.carbopeat.org
The Nairobi Framework - catalysing the CDM in Africa: Conference, trade fair and capacity-development to boost private sector participation in CDM on continent
Senegal-Dakkar, 3-5 September 2008
The Nairobi Framework was initiated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank Group, African Development Bank, and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the specific target of helping developing countries, especially those in sub-Sahara Africa, to improve their level of participation in the CDM.
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International Scientific Conference on Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change
Bali- Indonesia, 5-9 October2008
Tropical rainforests disappear at an alarming rate
causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Human-induced climate change is already causing changes in extremes of temperatures and precipitation and is likely to continue for many centuries affecting tropical forest growth and carbon stocks.. Assessments of land-use practices need to be linked to sustainable alternatives with concepts and data-driven models of large-scale land-use change in tropical, human-dominated landscapes.
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14th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC and 4th Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
Poznañ-Poland, 1 - 12 Dec 2008
Conference of the Parties (COP), Fourteenth session and Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Fourth session and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies.
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15th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC and 5th Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
Copenhagen- Denmark, 30 November - 11 December 2009
UNFCCC COP 15 and Kyoto Protocol COP/MOP 5 are scheduled to take place from 30 November to 11 December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. These meetings will coincide with the 31st meetings of the UNFCCC’s subsidiary bodies. Under the “roadmap” agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007, COP 15 and COP/MOP 5 are expected to finalize an agreement on a framework for combating climate change post-2012 (when the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period ends).
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