This meeting is organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species.
28 August 2006: A Special Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved a Fourth GEF replenishment, with 32 governments agreeing to contribute US$3.13 billion to finance environmental projects over the next four years. The Council also agreed on the governance of the climate change funds, specifying, inter alia, that decisions of the Council concerning the operations of the Adaptation Fund be taken by consensus among all Council members representing participants that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The Council meeting, which concluded many months' negotiations on the replenishment issue, was held on 28 August 2006, in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission has directed the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology to elaborate guidelines to help countries create their own safety standards and regulatory framework regarding genetically modified animals.
The Plants and Animals Committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have concluded after meeting in Lima, Peru throughout early to mid-July.
Organized by the Rainforest Project Foundation, this conference will follow up on the experience and the feedback of the First International Agarwood Conference, held in Vietnam in November 2003.
This meeting is organized by TRAFFIC, with the support of the IUCN/SSC Bear Specialist Group and WWF Japan.
This meeting is a cooperative initiative between the Convention on Migratory Species and CITES.
Organized by IUCN – the World Conservation Union in partnership with the European Commission and financial support of the Governments of Belgium, Finland, France and Sweden, this meeting aims to transform political commitments into concrete actions by developing recommendations for the European Commission and EU Member States on how to pro-actively address the integration of biodiversity concerns into development cooperation programmes and policies.
This meeting is organized by the Working Group on Aquatic Birds of the International Society of Limnology.
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