Events

Local Climate Action Summit

The COP28 Local Climate Action Summit is a first-of-its-kind Summit hosted by a COP Presidency in recognition of the critical role local leaders play in reducing emissions, addressing climate risk, and supercharging national efforts to move further and faster on climate progress.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 13:30-14:30 GMT+2 / 11:30–12:30 GMTEnglish & French

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Roundtable: Building Cities for People and Planet – Promoting decisive actions on integrating nature in future urban growth

Date: Thursday 24 August                              Time: 14:00-15:30 PDT                 

Location: Vancouver Convention Center, Room 206

22 - 26 August, Vancouver, Canada

UNEP SIDE EVENT: Innovative solutions for nature in cities

Date: Tuesday 22 August                          Time: 15:00-16:30 PDT                                      Location: Vancouver Convention Center, Room 6

UrbanShift and Energy Exchanges Webinar on Urban Cooling

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 10-11 CEST / 13:30 - 14:30 IST / 15:00-16:00 WIB / 16:00-17:00 CST  English, Mandarin Chinese & Bahasa Indonesia

Commercial refrigeration equipment, such as refrigerated display cabinets, beverage coolers, ice cream freezers and vending machines, is essential for the storage or display of foodstuffs in the retail and food service sectors. Over 120 million units were estimated to be in operation worldwide in 2010.

It is projected that by 2040, the electricity consumption for an ever-growing stock of commercial refrigeration will increase by nearly 40%. Fortunately, technologies are widely available to improve energy efficiency and use refrigerants with a lower global warming potential.

Date & Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm on July 11 2023 (East Africa Time)

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)

Date & Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm on July 4 2023 (East Africa Time)

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)

CBIT-GSP Inception and Launch of the Climate Transparency Platform

9 June 2023 | 11:00 -13:30 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn

Friday, May 26,  2023 / Vendredi 26 mai 2023 Online / Paris Climate Academy  09:00-12:00 CET  English (Online) / English and French (in-person)

En ligne / Académie du climat de Paris   09:00-12:00 CET   Anglais (en ligne) / Anglais et Français (en personne) 

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM

(UTC+03:00) Nairobi

This side event to the 2023 Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention Conference of the Parties will bring together various knowledge management initiatives from Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) that contribute to facilitating the parties' work in the implementation and compliance of the respective conventions in order to accelerate environmental progress.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

(UTC+03:00) Nairobi

Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 13:15-14:45 CEST, (UTC+03:00) Nairobi

Tuesday 9 May 1 - 2 PM (CEST)

SIDE EVENT  CICG & ONLINE 

GENEVA

Tue, May 09, 14.00 - 15.00 (EAT)

Webinar: Seven Lessons on Using Ecosystem Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation

20-24 March 2023

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Jointly organized by SOLUTIONSplus, the Africa Support and Investment Platform for E-mobility led by UNEP and TUMI E-bus Mission, the electric mobility in Africa will be held in Tanzania in English and simultaneous translation to French.  The event's agenda focuses on:

Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023             Location: Online event on Zoom, register here.         

Time: 11:00-12:00 CET / 13:00 - 14:00 EAT / 15:30-16:30 IST / 17:00-18:00 WIB

Did you know that 75% of all plastic produced has ended up as trash in landfills and water bodies?

The Partnership Areas of work on Mercury cell Chlor-alkali Production and Mercury Waste Management will host a joint webinar on the sound management and elimination of mercury and mercury waste in the Chlor-Alkali sector, in an online session, on 16 February 2023 from 13:00 to 15:30 CET.