29 April 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has announced that Morocco has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on 25 April 2011. It will thus become the 161st Party to the Protocol on 24 July 2011.
19 April 2011: In a briefing to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on 19 April 2011 in New York, US, the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) discussed the highlights and outcomes of its Spring meeting, which took place from 1-2 April 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Fourth High Level Forum of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and developing country signatories to the Paris Declaration of 2005 will take place in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 29 November-1 December 2011. Ministers and specialists will evaluate progress made since the third High Level Forum in 2008 and set out a new framework for increasing the quality of aid in order to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Priority areas for the forum will be: predictable aid; use of country systems; an end to policy conditionality; country-driven capacity development; mutual accountability; and reduced transaction costs.
17 April 2011: The Open-ended Working Group on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP-OEWG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed on a framework to ensure sharing of viruses and access to essential vaccines and medicines in case of pandemic.
14 April 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is inviting comments on the draft terms of reference (TOR) for the Coordination Mechanism for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI). It has also invited the nomination of candidates for the GTI Coordination Mechanism.
4 April 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that, together with the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), it is organizing its eighth annual course on international environmental law-making and diplomacy. The course is scheduled to take place from 4-16 September 2011, in Bangkok, Thailand, with a thematic focus on "Synergies among Biodiversity-Related Conventions."
12 April 2011: Organized in collaboration with the Country Support Programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Asia Regional Workshop on Biodiversity and Finance in Support of the Nagoya Outcomes of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held on 8 April 2011, in Da Lat, Viet Nam.
12 April 2011: The Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament amended a proposal by the EU Commission that will allow EU member States to restrict or ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties, on environmental grounds.
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism is organizing this event, which is aimed at bring together stakeholders in the Caribbean region's fisheries sector to review and endorse the Revised Agreement on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Common Fisheries Policy. The workshop is expected to be the final technical conference to negotiate the framework agreement establishing the Common Fisheries Policy.
6 April 2011: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has created a new partnership with 11 other organizations and institutions to tackle the threats of climate change facing forests in the Mediterranean region. The announcement came during the Second Mediterranean Forest Week, held from 5-8 April 2011, in Avignon, France.
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