22 April 2011: At a meeting with the Russian Federation's President Dmitry Medvedev, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the strong partnership between the Russian Federation and the UN and called for even greater cooperation on global governance issues, including climate change and sustainable development.
21 April 2011: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has published Vol. 66, No. 2, of the ICAO Journal, which contains articles on State and industry sustainability plans, as well as climate change impacts of tourist travel.
21 April 2011: In an address at the Bridge Forum Dialogue in Luxembourg on 13 April 2011, Nobuo Tanaka, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director, underscored that “the age of cheap energy is over.”
21 April 2011: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) 2011 Partnership Forum has been rescheduled to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, on 24-25 June 2011, and is receiving requests for stakeholder representatives to attend the Forum.
21 April 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched a community-based natural resource management and mangrove conservation project in the Godavari River Estuary, India.
12 April 2011: The World Bank has invited climate change researchers from Arab countries to contribute to the World Bank Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional Climate Change Flagship Report, titled "Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries."
15 April 2011: The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) OzonAction Compliance Assistance Programme convened an African Regional meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, from 13-15 April 2011. The meeting aimed to assess the status of parties’ progress towards meeting the January 2015 deadline of methyl-bromide phase-out.
22 April 2011: The World Bank has reported that it closed its 2010 fiscal year (FY) with an all-time record in renewable energy and energy efficiency financing, as well as a new record in the Bank Group's low-carbon financing.
21 April 2011: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) have signed a cooperation agreement for the implementation of a technical cooperation project on building capacities in east Asian countries to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships.
21 April 2011: The 19th meeting of the Plants Committee (PC 19) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) convened from 18-21 April 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland. Among other agenda items, it considered the implications of climate change for science-based decision-making, and the activities of other multilateral environmental agreements that may be linked to climate change and CITES.
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