Special events will take place between 1:45 p.m. and 2:45 p.m..
Press conferences will be held daily from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Exhibitions will be held daily from 5th February 2007 to 9th February 2007 .

                  >> Download the Provisional Timetable of Meetings and Events [pdf - 91KB]

  SPECIAL EVENTS

• Melting Ice- A Hot Topic?
  
  »  International Polar Year website
  »  GEO Website
  »  Tara Expeditions: Tara Arctic 2007- 2008
  - The challenge of the polar schooner Tara is to drift on the Arctic pack ice for two years. Aboard, scientists take turns to study the effects of the climate warming.
  - Tara at the Governing Council ( Tara Arctic 2007-2008 Press Release in French)
  »  World Environment Day 2007: Melting Ice - A Hot Topic?

• Trade and Environment
   
  Joint WTO-UNEP High-Level Roundtable
  » Overview [pdf - 108 KB]
  » Globalization and Environment:  Ensuring Coherence Between the Trade and Environment Regimes [pdf - 46 KB]
  
  Background note on:
  » Existing forms of cooperation and Information exchange between UNEP/MEAs and the WTO
  [pdf - 131KB]
  
  »  UNEP Economics and Trade Branch
  » World Trade Organization - Committee on Trade and Environment

• Environment in the Workplace
  »  Labour and the Environment
  »  Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch
  

• UNEP-UNDP Cooperation - The Way Forward
  »  UN Development Programme

• Launching of the IPCC Report: Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis
  »  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• International Trade in Chemicals
  »  UNEP Chemicals Branch
  

• Towards a World Free of Leaded Petrol - Successes to Date and Next Steps for Remaining Countries
  »  Presentation Flyer [pdf - 138KB]
  »  Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles

• UNEP and UNIDO - Enhancing Synergies
  »   UN Industrial Development Organization

• The Mercury Partnership
  »  Scientific facts on mercury (Summary of UNEP's Global Mercury Assessment)

• WWF/UNEP/UNESCO Event : EU Water Development Cooperation, the Water and Policy Strategy of UNEP & the UN Watercourse Convention
  »  Presentation Document [pdf - 154KB]
  »  World Wildlife Fund - Freshwater Programme
  »   World Water Assessment Programme at UNESCO

• Establishing an International Panel on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
  »  Presentation Document [pdf - 337KB]

• Environment and Globalization - Hosted by Danish Foreign Ministry and IISD
  »  Environment and Globalization - Five Propositions [pdf - 611KB]
  »  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
  

• Partnerships for Keeping the Environment Under Review

  PRESS CONFERENCES

  EXHIBITIONS