CIWEM's Annual Conference
Olympia Conference Centre, London
28th-29th April 2010

The way we manage water and the environment are fundamental to our long term future, both in the UK and internationally. The urgency of climate change and the challenges of water, food and energy security, set against a climate of financial limitation, call for more integrated and ‘green’ solutions.

Hosted by Planning Commission of India and Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
April 14-16, 2010

One fourth of the world’s population lives in the rural areas of Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Such areas are undergoing rapid and deep economic, social, demographic, cultural and political transformation.

Getting the biodiversity targets right - working for sustainable development
Trondheim, Norway 
February 1-5, 2010

The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity is held February 1-5, 2010, and will consider status and lessons learned from the 2010 target and provide CBD with a sound basis for developing post 2010 biodiversity targets. New targets will be set under CBD and the United Nations in the second half of 2010.

The COP15 conference is the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention. The conference will take place from 7 december to 18 December 2009.

The conference will take place in the Bella Center in Copenhagen. Read more about the centre here.

2009 is possibly the most important year for forests in living memory. We are in the final stretch of the road to Copenhagen, and COP 15, where negotiators expect to finalise a post-Kyoto global climate agreement in December. To coincide with the conference, CIFOR, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and the Government of Denmark will host Forest Day 3.more detail

29 June – 01 July 2009