BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa4b3605a957 DTSTART:20151005T090000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20151005T190000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Climate Change COP21 and Beyond: Briefing on SDGs\, Intended Nation ally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and the Role of the International Tr ade Community CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD and ITC join with the Geneva Environmental Network to c onduct a briefing on SDGs summit\, climate change COP21 and contribution o f the international trade community.\n\n\nThe briefing will take place on 5 October\, in room XXIII\, starting at 10:00\, and covering:\n\n\nThe out comes of the SDGs summit and their relevance to COP 21\nPreparations for C OP 21\nA tour de table among the three trade agencies - UNCTAD\, ITC and W TO - followed by a number of interventions by participants focusing on how the international trade community can support the climate negotiations on the way to Paris and\, especially\, in the implementation phase\nAssessme nt of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)\n\n\nBackgr ound\n\nIn November 2014\, in cooperation with the UNFCCC\, WTO and ITC\, UNCTAD launched a series of briefings\, which will culminate in a side eve nt at COP 21 in Paris.\n\nThe series has been prompted by the realization that the development agenda is an increasingly important component of clim ate change mitigation\, which is recognized by the IPCC under the term co- benefits - complementary benefits. Examples of such co-benefits include ec onomic growth and development\, poverty reduction\, and improved air quali ty\, health\, energy security\, job creation\, biological diversity and wa ter management.  Trade has an important role to play in leveraging the va rious co-benefits.\n\nThe first briefing\, held in February\, on the margi ns of the ADP (Ad hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Ac tion) negotiations in Geneva\, brought into focus linkages among the three major negotiating tracks:\n\n\nthe climate negotiations\;\nthe intergover nmental negotiations on post-2015 development agenda\;\nthe Doha Round neg otiations in the WTO.\n\n\nIn all three\, trade serves as an enabler in th e long run\, ensuring the implementation of any eventual agreement is incl usive within across countries.\n\nThe current briefing is meant as a stepp ing stone towards a side event\, which will bring together the three trade agencies and their UN and non-partners. The event\, entitled: "\;Leve raging the co-benefits: the role of markets and trade"\; and scheduled for 9 December. Fiona Harvey (The Guardian) will moderate the event.\n\n  \n\n \n\n \n/meeting/briefing-session-climate-change-sustainable-devel opment-goals-and-trade-crossroads\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://u nctad.org/meeting/climate-change-cop21-and-beyond-briefing-sdgs-intended-n ationally-determined-contributions DTSTAMP:20260912T020520Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR