2020 Events
Several international meetings are currently being postponed or switched to a virtual format due to COVID-19. We will update this page on a periodic basis as new information is available. For a listing of ocean webinars, you may be interested to browse this database, which is maintained by Glen Wright (Senior Researcher, IDDRI) and updated in real time.
September 2020
75th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 75)
- September 15–22, 2020
- UNHQ, New York
UN High Level Biodiversity Summit
- September 30, 2020
- UNHQ, New York
November 2020
Twenty-fourth meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)
- November 2–7, 2020
- Montreal Canada
Third Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation
- November 9–14, 2020
- Montreal Canada
Paris Peace Forum
- November 11–13, 2020
- Paris, France
December 2020
Our Ocean Conference
- December 7–8, 2020
- Palau
2021 Events
January 2021
IUCN World Conservation Congress
- January 7–15, 2021
- Marseille, France
World Economic Forum
- January 26–29, 2021
- Davos, Switzerland
February 2021
CBD 3rd Open-Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- February 2021 (TBC)
- Venue TBA
March 2021
High Seas Treaty Negotiations (Intergovernmental Conference 4)
- March 2021 (TBC)
- UNHQ, New York
May 2021
Fifteenth meeting of the COP to the CBD
- May 17–30, 2021
- Kunming, China
July 2021
UN Ocean Conference
- July 2021 (TBC)
- Venue TBC
September 2021
IMPAC 5
- September 26–October 1, 2021
- Vancouver, Canada
November 2021
UNFCCC COP26
- November 1–12, 2021
- Glasgow, UK
