30 November 2010: The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released its fourth Environment State and Outlook report (SOER 2010), which aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of environmental change in Europe and action taken to shift to a resource-efficient green economy.
International Mountain Day aims to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development, and build partnerships to bring positive change to the world's mountains and highlands. In 2010, the theme of International Mountain Day is "Mountain minorities and Indigenous Peoples."
23 November 2010: During the International Tiger Conservation Forum, held from 21-24 November, in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, the Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Secretary-General of ICPO-INTERPOL, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the President of the World Bank and the Secretary-General of the World Customs Organization signed a Letter of Understanding to bring into effect the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC).
22 November 2010: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the submission of information on activities supporting, facilitating, regulating or promoting technology transfer and scientific and technological cooperation.
18 November 2010: The 39th Meeting of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Council approved US$134 million for the next phase of the Small Grants Programme (SGP), which awards up to US$50,000 in funds for projects by civil society and community based organizations.
5 November 2010: The Ministerial Committee for the Defense of Nature of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas – Treaty of Commerce of the People (ALBA-TCP) adopted a declaration opposing the concept of "green economy," in which nature is seen as "capital" for producing tradable goods and services.
The signing ceremony of the Kuala Lumpur-Nagoya supplementary protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will take place in conjunction with the second preparatory meeting of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD).
November 2010: The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a publication titled "Tourism and Biodiversity: Achieving Common Goals Towards Sustainability." It considers the relationship between tourism and biodiversity, and assesses how tourism can contribute to protecting biodiversity and enhance biodiversity's role as a main resource for tourism destinations.
16 November 2010: The chair of the Timber Committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Linda Langner, and the chair of the European Forestry Commission under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Peter Blomback, reported that at a meeting on 15 October 2010, the joint Bureaux of the two bodies decided that the theme of their joint session scheduled for October 2011 will be “Forests in a Green Economy.”
16 November 2010: On the occasion of the 39th meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council, held from 16-18 November 2010 in Washington DC, US, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), highlighted the Nagoya outcomes, in particular decisions related to guidance to the financial mechanism.
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