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MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Fiftieth anniversary of UNCTAD	16-20 Jun 2014
Trade and Development Board, 59th executive session (Africa)	23-25 Jun 2014
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation, second session (trade facilitation)	30 Jun-07 Jul 2014
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, fourteenth session	07-09 Jul 2014

CALENDAR

News

2nd Biotrade Congress to focus on potential of biodiversity products for forest preservation

09 Dec -

Experts meeting in Geneva will discuss how the sale and trade of goods sustainably harvested from forests, if expanded, may preserve stands of timber as carbon "sinks" and thus mitigate climate change.

Review of Maritime Transport 2013 released today

05 Dec -

The globe’s longest-lasting and largest cycle of ship building finally began to slow in 2012, UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2013 reveals, but the effects of overcapacity are still being felt. Shipping rates remained low, threatening firms’ profitability, even as the volume shipped last year increased by 4.3 per cent.

Seizing the low-carbon investment opportunity in Africa

03 Dec -

Governments that want to pursue a path to a green economy must develop a green growth vision, formulate enabling policies, and develop a strategy to promote green investment opportunities, said participants at an UNCTAD regional workshop in Durban, South Africa.

Developing countries face challenges in reaping benefits from cloud computing

03 Dec -

There is nothing nebulous about the "cloud", especially as it applies to developing countries, says UNCTAD's Information Economy Report 2013, subtitled "The Cloud Economy and Developing Countries".