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Coming up 7-13 August
7 August, Trondheim, Norway. THE SECOND GLOBAL FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT TRAINING WORKSHOP. This workshop will present traditional and innovative approaches on monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) and will be run prior to the Nor-Fishing trade show in Trondheim from the 12 to the 15 August. MCS practitioners will gather to share the latest information on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) and adjacent activities. Common problems exist in fisheries MCS regardless of region or fishery and occur in national zones and on the high seas and involve domestic fleets and foreign flag vessels. At the workshop, traditional MCS methods and innovative approaches to all of these situations will be presented. The five day programme will be hosted by the Government of Norway in cooperation with the International MCS Network, the European Union, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation and follows the success of the first workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2005. For further information, please refer to http://www.gfetw.org/.
7-23 August, Stockholm, Sweden. WORLD WATER WEEK. The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. The theme of the week is ‘Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation’. For further information, please refer to http://www.worldwaterweek.org/.
11-13 August, Manado, Indonesia. 30TH SESSION OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC FISHERY COMMISSION. This invitation-only formal session will deliberate on a range of current and emerging fisheries issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific Region. For further information please contact the Secretary; tel: +66-2-697-4149; fax: +66-2-697-445; e-mail: simon.fungesmith@fao.org; and refer to the websites: http://www.apfic.org and http://www.fao.org/fishery/nems/36390/en.
12-13 August, New Delhi, India. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT: WHERE DO WE STAND AND WHERE TO GO? CUTS International and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in association with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank will organise this major conference on Global Partnership for Development. With the backdrop of the slow progress made in the World Trade Organisation’s ‘development’ round of negotiations, the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations involving African, Caribbean and the Pacific countries and the European Union may not yield desired meaningful developmental outcomes. The specific objectives of the conference include: assessing the impact of failure of the Doha Round of negotiation on least developed and vulnerable states; discussing the scope of cooperation between the developed and developing countries, apart from the multilateral trade talks and regional trading arrangements, to strengthen the link between trade, growth and poverty reduction in the developing world; and to identify the scope for and measures by developed and the more advanced developing countries’ playing a fuller and more effective role in advancing growth and development in the rest of the world. For further information, please refer to http://www.cuts-citee.org/pdf/Backgrounder_GlobalPartnershipforDevelopment-Aug12-13-2008.pdf.
Other Upcoming Events
15-17 August, Dhaka, Bangladesh. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘FINANCING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD’. This conference, arranged by Bangladesh-based think tank Unnayan Onneshan, will focus on financial mechanisms for supporting mitigation activities to combat climate change. For further information, please refer to http://www.unnayan.org/.
17-23 August, Stockholm, Sweden. 2008 WORLD WATER WEEK. The 2008 World Water Week will revolve around the theme ‘Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World’. For further information, please refer to http://www.worldwaterweek.org/.
18-20 August, Auckland, New Zealand. FOURTH AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND CLIMATE CHANGE AND BUSINESS CONFERENCE. This conference, which is being sponsored by the Governments of New Zealand and Australia and various partner organisations, will focus on emissions trading, voluntary markets, investment issues, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation. For further information, please refer to http://www.climateandbusiness.com/.
20-22 August, Basel, Switzerland. INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE. The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the University of Basel - are organising a follow-up conference. The theme of this second International Sustainability Conference is ‘Creating Values for Sustainable Development’. From a socio-economic perspective we take this to be one of the major tasks and challenges with regard to the expected societal transformation processes toward sustainability. For further information, please refer to http://www.isc2008.ch/index.htm.
26-29 August, Libreville, Gabon. FIRST INTER-MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT. The World Health Organisation and the UN Environment Programme, in partnership with the Government of Gabon, are organising the first inter-ministerial conference for health and environment in Africa. The main objective of the conference is to secure political commitment for catalysing the policy, institutional and investment changes required to reduce environmental threats to health, in support of sustainable development. For more information refer to, http://www.unep.org/health-env/.
25 September, New York, US. HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SEPTEMBER SUMMIT). The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly are organising the September High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The September summit will seek to be the central political development event of the year, setting the tone for the Doha Financing for Development Conference in late 2008. It will seek to mobilise world leaders including heads of state, major business leaders, civil society and religious leaders, the heads of foundations, and other stakeholders to agree on the practical steps that are needed to achieve the MDGs. The central objective of the Summit is to gather announcements of commitments for concrete initiatives from all participants that will translate their promise to support the MDGs into action on the ground. For further information contact: tel: +1 (212) 963 3125; e-mail: n...@un.org; and refer to the website http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel.
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