3 June 2011: The Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Three Rainforest Basins, namely the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong basins, took place in Brazzaville, Congo, from 27 May-3 June 2011, to establish new ways to increase technical cooperation on forest matters, and adopted a joint statement on tropical forests, climate and sustainable development.
1 June 2011: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announced its support to three initiatives in the UK, the Netherlands and Spain, seeking to encourage biodiversity in the world's fashion industries. UNCTAD noted that the fashion industry currently makes extensive use of biological raw materials, and can contribute to biodiversity conservation through innovation and new ideas.
30 May 2011: The Food and Agriculture of the UN (FAO) and Max Planck Institute have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborating on studies of species-swapping diseases that move between wild and domestic animals and in some cases to humans, such as the A/H1N1 swine flu and the H5N1 avian flu.
May 2011: The Forestry Leaders Summit on forestry education and research, in which the International Year of Forests is a partner, brought together senior representatives of education and research institutions, as well as international organizations such as the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF), the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), to discuss improving the skill set of forestry graduates and enhancing forestry research's responsiveness to global forest policies.
1 June 2011: The UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS) organized an informal preparatory meeting for the upcoming workshop to discuss implementation of relevant paragraphs of UN General Assembly Resolutions 61/105 and 64/72 on the impacts of bottom fishing on vulnerable marine ecosystems and the long-term sustainability of deep sea fish stocks.
1 June 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) called for a dramatic increase in support for sustainable agriculture, including to smallholder farmers, as a way to drive green growth and reduce poverty, on the occasion of the launch of the Environment and Natural Resource Management (ENRM) Policy.
1 June 2011: A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) indicates that deforestation rates continue to be "alarming" in most of the 30 countries in the Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asian rainforest basins.
30 May 2011: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a sustainable forest management project in Cambodia, which aims to promote forest conservation, benefit the rural poor, and contribute to climate change mitigation.
30 May 2011: This year's environment media award from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is focused on the Pacific Year of the Dugong, SPREP has announced, to encourage media workers in SPREP countries to raise awareness on dugongs, sea grasses and marine life in general.
27 May 2011: An international expert meeting on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and capacity building brought experts together to prepare for the upcoming IPBES plenary meetings and address IPBES' capacity building mechanisms.
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