Gateway to the UN System's
Work on Climate Change

January

• Kyoto Protocol First Commitment Period starts (2008-2012)
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
  (Davos, Switzerland, 23-27 January)

February

• International Conference on Living with Climate Change
  (London, UK, 7-8 February)
• Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008: Sustainable Development and Climate Change
  (New Delhi, India, 7-9 February)
• UN General Assembly Thematic Debate on Climate Change (UNHQ, New York, 11-12 February)
• 10th Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme (Monaco, 20-22 February)
• Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Americas (Panama, 25-29 February)

March

• International Renewable Energy Conference
  (Washington DC, 4-6 March)
• International Polar Year Day on “Changing Earth: Past, Present and Future” (Various sites, 12-13 March)
• GLOBE 2008 International Conference on Business and the Environment (Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12-14 March)
• Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development (Chiba, Japan, 14-16 March)
• World Water Day (Global, 22 March)
• World Meteorological Day (Global, 23 March)
• State of the Planet 08: Real People, Real Places, Real Solutions (Columbia University, NYC, 27-28 March)

April

• G8 Development Cooperation Ministers Meeting
  (Tokyo, Japan, 5-6 April)
• Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands
  (Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7-11 April)
• International Seminar on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector (Oxford, UK, 8-10 April)
• 28th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 April)
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, "Polar Ozone" session (Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April)
• Spring Meeting of ECOSOC with the Bretton Woods Institutions, WTO and UNCTAD
  (UNHQ, NYC, 14 April)
• Renewable Energy Conference for Africa
  (Dakar, Senegal, 16-18 April)
• Global Environment Facility Council
  (Washington, 21-25 April)
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  (UNHQ, NY, 21 April – 2 May)
• Earth Day (Global, 22 April)
• Global Business Summit for the Environment (B4E) (Singapore, 22-23 April)
• Eco-City World Summit 2008
  (San Francisco, USA, 22-26 April)
• Forum on Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age
  (UNHQ, New York, 23 April)
• OECD-UNEP Conference on Resource Efficiency (Paris, France, 23-25 April)

May

• Commission on Sustainable Development
  (New York, 5-16 May)
• 4th International Symposium on Flood Defense
  (Toronto, Canada, 6-8 May)
• G8 Environment Ministers Meeting
  (Kobe, Japan, 25-27 May)

June

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies (Bonn, Germany, 2-13 June)
• World Environment Day (Global, 5 June)
• G8 Energy Ministers Meeting (Hokkaido, Japan, 7-9 June)
• Expo Zaragoza 2008: Water and Sustainable Development (Zaragoza, Spain, 14 June – 14 September)
• World Day to Combat Desertification and Drough
  (Global, 17 June)
• UN Principles for Responsible Investing Annual Meeting (Seoul, ROK, 17-28 June)
• UNEP International Children’s Conference on the Environment (Stavanger, Norway, 17-21 June)
• International Conference on Groundwater and Climate in Africa (Kampala, Uganda, 25-28 June)
• G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting (Kyoto, Japan, 26-27 June)
• UN Economic and Social Council (annual session)
  (UNHQ, NY, 30 June – 25 July)

July

• G8 Summit (Hokkaido, Japan, 7-9 July)

August

• World Water Week (Stockholm, Sweden, 17-23 August)
• International Conference on Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate, with Emphasis on Forest Health (Umeå, Sweden, 25-28 August)

September

• World Water Congress (Montpellier, France, 1-4 September)
• International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (Global, 16 September)
• 63rd session of the UN General Assembly
  (UNHQ, New York, 16 September to mid-December)
• European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting on the theme “Adaptation to Climate Change” (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 September-3 October)

October

• 4th World Conservation Congress (Barcelona, Spain, 5-14 October)
• World Urban Forum IV (Nanjing, China, 13-17 October)

November

• GEF Council (Washington, DC, 10-14 November)
• Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (Doha, Qatar, 29 November – 2 December)

December

• COP14 (Poznan, Poland, 1-12 December)