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At its first meeting on 17 December, the composition of the Working Group on the Internet Governance Forum was agreed, as follows: twenty-two Members States, plus five representatives each from civil society; the business sector; academia and the technical community; and intergovernmental organizations.​

Representatives of CSTD members States met in Geneva on 6 December to discuss the composition of the Working Group on Internet Governance in response to ECOSOC resolution 2010/2.​

A preliminary consultation session, called by Mr. Frederic Riehl, vice-Chair of the CSTD, took place on 16 September 2010, to share views and exchange ideas on the composition, modalities and working methods of the Working Group on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), during the fifth annual IGF meeting, which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 14 to 17 September 2010.​

​UNCTAD, together with the Ministries of Finance and Commerce of China, hosted a High Level Conference on Guidelines for Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing in Xiamen, China on 8 September 2010.

Experts consider the impacts of climate change on international transportation infrastructure and services across modes.

Ineffective farming techniques and wasteful post-harvest practices have left sub-Saharan Africa as the region most likely to miss the first Millennium Development Goal: eradicating extreme hunger and poverty by 2015, warns the 2010 UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report.

Food supplies and support for agriculture are too important to be left to market forces alone, and governments must play a dominant role, speakers said at UNCTAD's second public symposium.

With maritime transport heavily dependent on oil for propulsion, and with oil prices expected to sustain their current high levels, a new technical report by UNCTAD examines the effect of rising oil prices on maritime freight rates.

A summary of the proceedings of an UNCTAD Multi-Year Expert Meeting on Transport and Trade Facilitation: "Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge" held on 16-18 February 2009, has been published by the UNCTAD Secretariat.