Bridges Trade BioRes • Volume 8 • Number 3 • 22nd February 2008

Events

For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar, http://www.trade-environment.org/page/calendar.htm.

Coming up in the next two weeks

25-27 February, New Delhi, India: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON MOVING TOWARDS GENDER SENSITISATION OF TRADE POLICY. The seminar will provide a forum to international trade and gender experts, policy makers, academia and civil society to discuss gender concerns in the context of trade liberalisation and globalisation, with particular reference to India and generally to developing countries. Internet: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=15066&year=2008&month=2

25-29 February, Geneva, Switzerland: INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FOLKLORE : 12TH SESSION. The Committee, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, will focus in particular on issues faced by local and indigenous communities. Internet: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=14802

3-4 March, London, UK: HIGH VISIBILITY? AIRLINE EMISSIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. This Chatham House event will tackle the dominant issue of 2008: airline emissions. It will address the steps which need to be taken by policymakers, the aviation industry and the investment community to address this fundamental issue. Internet: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/airlines

4 March, Brussels, Belgium: WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA FOR BIOFUELS. Recent scientific evidence suggests that CO2 efficiency of biofuels is questionable - in particular if land use changes are taken into account. The European Parliament ENVI Committee, the TAUW Consulting and Engineering Company together with the EP’s ENVI Committee Secretariat and the EP’s Policy Department A will be organising a workshop on "Sustainability criteria for biofuels". For further information and to register, contact Jurgen Ooms, email: Jurgen.Ooms@tauw.nl

3-7 March, Arusha, Tanzania: UNDERUTILIZED PLANTS FOR FOOD, NUTRITION, INCOME AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. The symposium will be organised around four main areas of importance for underutilised plants: food security; nutrition and health; income generation; and environmental sustainability. Participants will be invited to share and discuss reasons for the successes and failures of diverse types of approaches to promote underutilised plants. The meeting seeks to provide a global forum for exchange and debate on issues related to the promotion of underutilised plants. The symposium is an activity of the newly formed ISHS working group on underutilised plant genetic resources (PG3). Internet: http://www.icuc-iwmi.org/Symposium2008/

4-6 March, Washington, D.C., United States: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE (WIREC) 2008. WIREC 2008 is the third global ministerial-level conference on renewable energy, following events in Beijing in 2005 and Bonn in 2004. It is comprised of a Ministerial-level meeting co-located with the Trade Show and Business Conference. Internet: http://www.wirec2008.org/

Other upcoming meetings

14-16 March, Chiba, Japan: GLENEAGLES DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE, CLEAN ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. The Gleneagles Dialogue is a multi-year, multi-government, public-private policy dialogue on climate change and clean energy issues, the findings of which will be submitted to the G8 summit process at this meeting in Japan. Internet: http://www.do-summit.jp/en/about/summary02.php

25-28 March, Helsinki, Finland: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE FOR INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES, THEIR TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. This event will provide an opportunity for an in-depth study of opportunities and challenges of responses to climate change for indigenous and local communities from the Arctic, and the comprehensive consideration of these climate change related issues that can be integrated into related work carried out by the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as other relevant agencies, including their programmes, policies and strategies. Internet: http://www.cbd.int/meetings/