The Lima Climate Change Conference: A Complex Negotiating Process
The Annual Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol (COP20/CMP10) was held from 1-14 December 2014 in Lima, Peru.
The Annual Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol (COP20/CMP10) was held from 1-14 December 2014 in Lima, Peru.
On 4 December, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon informally presented an advance, unedited version of his synthesis report on the post-2015 development agenda to UN Member States.
On 6 November 2014, the Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (IEAG) met the UN Secretary-General to hand over their culminating report “A World That Counts: Mobilizing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development”.
The twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) was held from 6-17 October 2014, in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea. The first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol (NP COP/MOP 1) was held during the 2nd week of CBD COP 12, from 13-17 October 2014.
The 16th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans (RSCAPs) took place from 29 September to 1 October 2014 in Athens, Greece. The objectives of the meeting were to discuss the role of the RSCAPs in the process of developing a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on oceans within the post-2015 development agenda.
Τhe Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context is now open to all United Nations Member States through the entry into force on 26 August 2014 of its first amendment.
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