Focus on Arts and Ecology

Colleagues,

The first half of 2020 has jolted all of us from our routines and expectations. As we individually and collectively search for and adjust to our new normal, we have been buoyed to see the ways in which so many in this community have refocused their efforts to address the global health, economic, and inequality challenges we are now facing.

Our Earth Negotiations Bulletin team is preparing to cover the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which has switched its format to a virtual platform and has placed COVID-19 and multilateral efforts to build back better at the center of its agenda. Please check out our daily coverage here https://enb.iisd.org/hlpf/2020/ and share your organization’s HLPF-related work with this community list.

If you are organizing a side event during HLPF, please contact Brett Wertz at brett@iisd.org for information about how ENB could cover your events.

ICYMI: As multilateral meetings moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so did ENB. We are pleased to have covered several meetings in June, and we look forward to raising the transparency and visibility of more virtual events in the coming months. If you missed it, please check out:

• 58th meeting of the GEF Council – Council members selected the next CEO and Chairperson and agreed on a new Work Program – https://enb.iisd.org/gef/council58/  
• June Momentum for Climate Change – A series of virtual events organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat sought to advance technical work on the climate change regime and provide an information exchange platform – https://enb.iisd.org/climate/june-momentum/
• 11th meeting of the Blue Monaco Initiative – This series of three workshops sought to maintain the momentum on global discussions on the ocean and to articulate key recommendations to important global ocean meetings – https://enb.iisd.org/oceans/monacoblueinitiative/11/
• Innovating Climate Change through Agroecology – This workshop developed messages on agroecology as a systemic approach to adaptation for food security and rural livelihoods – https://enb.iisd.org/climate/agroecology/  
• Soils as Keystone for Food Security and Ecosystem Restoration – This session, which was part of the Global Landscapes Forum, discussed the role of the smallholder farmer as a key agent in land restoration activities – https://enb.iisd.org/soil/food-security-ecosystem-restoration/

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If you have questions about our upcoming schedule or are organizing a meeting and would like us there, please contact: Lynn Wagner, ENB Interim Director (lwagner@iisd.org)