November 2008: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University, has developed a dataset of climate change country profiles for 52 developing countries.
9 November 2008: The Fifth International Weather Forum took
place from 6-9 November 2008, in Brussels, Belgium. The event was co-sponsored
by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Community,
MeteoFrance and other organizations. It brought together meteorologists,
experts in climate, journalists, weather presenters and broadcasters from all
over the world to discuss climate change and ways to better inform the public.
8 November 2008: The high-level conference on “Climate
Change: Technology Development and Technology Transfer,” which took place in
Beijing, China, from 7-8 November 2008, was co-hosted by the UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, and supported by the UN Foundation.
7 November 2008: The UN Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) is collaborating with China to address the problem of climate change
through agreements to increase clean development mechanism (CDM) clean energy
projects and boost the use of hydropower in Africa.
6 November 2008: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
announced that a conference on Oceans Observation (OceanObs) entitled “Ocean
Information for Society: Sustaining the Benefits, Realizing the Potential,”
would take place from 21-25 September 2009, in Venice, Italy.
4 November 2008: At the conclusion of the High Level
Regional Policy Meeting on Networking Towards Gender and Poverty Sensitive
Energy Policies, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 3-4 November 2008,
the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA), in
cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (ESCAP), launched the Policy Innovation Forum. The Forum aims to
help provide women and the poor with reliable access to energy.
November 2008: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Risoe
Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development has announced calls for
clean development mechanism (CDM) and voluntary market projects in Benin and
Mali for project sponsors who want to participate in CDM capacity building
workshops to be held in the two countries.
6 November 2008: Documents for the 34th Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council meeting,
which will convene from 11-13 November 2008, in Washington DC, US, are
available online.
4 November 2008: The International Telecommunication Union's
(ITU) High-Level Segment of the Council (HLS) will take place from 12-13
November 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland, and will focus on information and
communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change.
3 November 2008: The UN Environment Programme, (UNEP), with
the EU Member States Defense Environment Network, the US Department of Defense,
the Institute for Environmental Security, the US Environmental Protection
Agency, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Institute
for Defense Analysis, and the Environment and Security Initiative, is
co-sponsoring a meeting from 3-5 November 2008 in Paris, France, on “The
Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate: 2008.”
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