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16th Meeting of the Monaco Blue Initiative
Participants reflected on how to achieve urgent tasks—such as obtaining sufficient ratifications to enable the entry into force of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies under the WTO and of the Agreement on Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction—and how to ensure these global instruments deliver on their ambitious objectives.
1st Part of the 30th Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority
Standing at a crossroads, the Authority needs to balance or resolve competing interests and approaches toward commercial deep-sea mining, especially in light of the announcement that a company has initiated a process to apply for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits under US legislation, potentially undermining international law.
Resumed Session of the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference - CBD COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5
While the financial mechanism and the need to mobilize financial resources were at the forefront of delegates’ deliberations, the resumed session saw the adoption of other decisions vital to the realization of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s goals and targets.
62nd Session of the IPCC (IPCC-62)
After working 30 hours overtime, IPCC Member Countries agreed on the outlines of the three Working Group reports and agreed on a decision that enables the author nomination process for the Seventh Assessment Report to begin. There was still no agreement on the timeline for the reports’ delivery.
3rd Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 4th International Conference on FfD
Governments and other stakeholders completed their first full reading of the zero draft of the outcome document on financing for development, focusing on issues from illicit financial flows and reform of international financial institutions to corruption, official development assistance, and debt.
Organizational Session for the Intergovernmental Negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
UN Member States started a three-year process to negotiate the convention and two protocols on priority issues. This process contributes to the discussion on reforming the architecture of the international financial system.
78th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
Delegates celebrated achievements, like the dramatic recovery of the saiga antelope. But their agenda with over 127 working documents across 87 agenda items containing more than 200 draft decisions could not be completed, illustrating a growing gap between the Convention’s workload and resources.
68th Meeting of the GEF Council
The nearly USD 700 million Work Program approved focuses heavily on chemicals and waste at a time when the GEF hopes to prove to the multilateral community it has the capacity to serve as the financial mechanism for a global plastics treaty and that it could play a significant role in realizing the vision of the Global Framework on Chemicals.