Date |
Event |
Venue |
| Jan. 27-28 |
Pakistan’s GEF National Dialogue |
Lahore, Pakistan |
| Feb. 4 |
GEF BBL: Best Practice Networks for Industrial Energy Efficiency |
Washington DC |
| Feb. 11-12 |
International Colloquium on the Great Green Wall of the Sahara |
Dakar, Senegal |
| Feb. 11-13 |
CSP Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points in Europe and CIS |
Dubrovnik, Croatia |
Feb. 14-20 |
5th Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum |
Nairobi, Kenya |
| Feb. 19-24 |
International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA); and
Inception meeting, International Advisory Board of the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) |
Bangladesh |
| Feb. 25 |
GEF BBL: Ivory trade and other controversies |
Washington DC |
| Mar. 5 |
GEF BBL: Financial Mechanisms for Sustainable Management of Ecosystems Providing Environmental Services: The Trifinio Region, Central America |
Washington DC |
| Mar. 6 |
International Workshop on Satoyama Initiative |
Japan |
| Mar. 7-8 |
International Colloquium for Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security |
Monrovia, Liberia |
Mar. 12
|
GEF BBL: What is the smart grid and how does it impact global climate efforts through the electric system? |
Washington DC
|
| Mar. 16-22 |
5th World Water Forum |
Istanbul, Turkey |
| Mar. 16-20 |
19th Session of the Committee on Forestry and World Forest Week |
FAO, Rome, Italy |
Mar. 17
|
GEF BBL: The Coming US Agenda on Clean Energy Production, Distribution, and Adaptation to Climate Change |
Washington DC |
| Mar. 17-18 |
1st GEF-5 Replenishment |
Paris, France |
| Mar. 19 |
Meeting of ad hoc committee on the proposed STAR (System for Transparent Allocation of Resources) for GEF 5 |
Paris, France |
| Mar.23 |
Financing climate change |
London, UK
|
| Mar. 24-27 |
5th Adaptation Fund Board Meeting |
Bonn, Germany |
| Mar. 26 |
Washington Women Speak, sponsored by Grant Thornton |
Washington DC |
| Mar.30-Apr.3 |
57th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund |
Montreal, Canada |
| Apr. 2-8 |
CBD - Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 7) |
Paris, France |
| Apr. 7-9 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points from Asia |
Bangkok, Thailand |
| Apr. 8 |
GEF Earth Fund Board: First Meeting |
Washington DC |
| Apr. 27 |
GEF BBL: USAID's New Forest Carbon Calculator |
Washington DC |
Apr. 27-29
|
Implementation of Renewable Energy in the Emerging Markets of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean 2009 (REEM09) |
San Francisco, USA
|
| Apr. 28-30 |
GEF Familiarization Seminar |
Washington DC |
| May 4-8 |
4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| May 11-15 |
World Oceans Conference 2009 |
Manado, Indonesia |
| May 11-15 |
2nd Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| May 12 |
GEF BBL: Scaling Up: Some lessons on Sustaining Impact in Sustainable Transport Sector |
Washington DC |
| May 18 |
GEF BBL: Establishing an Intergovernmental Science - Policy Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Change |
Washington DC |
| May 19-21 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points from East and Southern Africa |
Nairobi, Kenya |
| May 21 |
GEF BBL: UNIDO-ICHET support to Hydrogen Energy Implementation in Developing Countries |
Washington DC |
| May 25-27 |
Turkey's GEF National Dialogue |
Turkey |
| June 3 |
GEF BBL: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Green Economy Initiative |
Washington DC |
| June 16-18 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points from the Caribbean |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
| Jun. 21-26 |
NGOs Consultation and 35th GEF Council Meeting
6th LDCF/SCCF Council Meeting
2nd GEF-5 Replenishment Meeting |
Washington DC |
| Jul. 6-10 |
58th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund |
Montreal, Canada |
| Jul. 9 |
GEF BBL: Transport, Urban Systems, and UN-HABITAT |
Washington DC |
| Jul. 9-11 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points from West and Central Africa |
Accra, Ghana |
| Jul. 13 |
Workshop for a Dialogue on high-global warming potential alternatives to ozone-depleting substances |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| Jul. 14 |
Workshop on Management and Destruction of ODS banks and implications to Climate Change |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| Jul. 15-18 |
29th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| Sept.14-16 |
Seventh Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board |
Bonn, Germany |
| Sept.17 |
GEF BBL: IUCN: Finding Pragmatic Solutions to Environment and Development Challenges |
Washington DC |
| Sept.18 |
GEF BBL: UNIDO and the GEF: Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change |
Washington DC |
| Sept.21-Oct.2 |
UNCCD COP |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Sept.29-Oct.1 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points Latin America |
Lima, Peru |
| Oct.12-14 |
Tanzania's GEF National Dialogue |
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Oct. 12-16 |
5th Meeting of the POPs Review Committee |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| Oct. 13 |
GEF BBL - The Perspective of Chinese Energy and Low Carbon Economy Policies |
Washington DC |
| Oct. 14-16 |
3rd GEF-5 Replenishment Meeting |
Paris, France |
| Oct. 19-23 |
Training Workshop on Implementation of national Adaptation Programmes of Action in Anglophone African LDC's |
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Oct. 20-22 |
CSP Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points from the Middle East, North Africa and West Asia |
Cairo, Egypt |
| Oct. 26-29 |
Fifth Biennial GEF International Waters Conference |
Australia |
| Nov. 2-6 |
CBD - Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8 (j) and Related Provisions (WG8J 6) |
Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia - TBC |
| Nov. 4-8 |
21st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer |
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt |
| Nov. 5 |
BBL on UNIDO's Green Industry Initiative and the contribution of the joint UNIDO- UNEP Resource Efficient and Cleaner Program |
Washington DC |
| Nov. 9-13 |
Consultations and 36th GEF Council Meeting |
Washington DC |
| Nov. 9-15 |
CBD - Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 8) |
Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia - TBC |
| Nov. 16 |
GEF BBL Australia’s Contribution to the Group on Earth Observation’s “Forest Carbon Tracking” Initiative |
Washington DC |
Nov. 19
|
GEF BBL - infoDev's CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM |
Washington DC |
| Nov. 24 |
GEF BBL - The benefits of Smart Grid for a low carbon future |
Washington DC |
| Dec. 7-18 |
UNFCCC COP-15 |
Copenhagen, Denmark |