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GENeva Environment Dialogues

Last updated: 02 Jul 2020
The aim of the GENeva Environment Dialogues is to discuss current and pressing topics on the global environmental agenda. Our special COVID-19 series addresses the impacts of the pandemic on the global environmental agenda as experts are concerned that the world is losing critical time to turn around alarming trends in biodiversity loss, climate change, sound management of chemicals and other environmental threats.
GENeva Environment Dialogues
The GENeva Environment Dialogues discuss current and pressing topics on the global environmental agenda.
Special COVID-19 Series: United to End the Pandemic
The GENeva Environment Dialogues special COVID-19 series addresses the impacts of the pandemic on the global environmental agenda as experts are concerned that the world is losing critical time to turn around alarming trends in biodiversity loss, climate change, sound management of chemicals and other environmental threats.
The series addresses the following topics:
- The impact of the crisis on the activities of organizations
- The response of organizations to the COVID-19 crisis
- The impacts on the preparations of the conferences and negotiations
- New schedules and programmes for these conferences and negotiations
COVID-19 and the Environment
Our COVID-19 and the environment section lists relevant information, research, data and/or press releases issued by our partners in Geneva and other institutions around the world on the environmental origins and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Schedule
- IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 | 28 April 2020
- Open-Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention | 30 April 2020
- CITES and its Committee Meetings | 5 May 2020
- ILO, COVID-19 and the World of Work for a Sustainable Recovery | 7 May 2020
- WTO and the Committee on Trade and Environment | 12 May 2020
- UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) | 14 May 2020
- SAICM and the Fifth Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) | 19 May 2020
- Transboundary Water Cooperation and COVID-19, the Role of the Water Convention | 26 May 2020
- UN Biodiversity Conference | 26 May 2020
- Minamata Convention Intersessional Work | 28 May 2020
- Act #ForNature Virtual Preparatory Forum for UNEA-5 | 2 June 2020
- Emerging Infectious Diseases and Ecosystems Health | 3 June 2020
- The Nature-Based Solutions Agenda | 4 June 2020
- International Governance Issues on Climate Engineering | 18 June 2020
- Protocol on Water and Health | 23 June 2020
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Climate Science | 2 July 2020