SUMMARY OF UPCOMING SIDS RELATED EVENTS

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Date Venue Time Event Organizers
29-30 September Glen Cove Mansion, Long Island, NY SIDS Retreat UN DESA
2-5 October Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Regional Workshop: “Sandwatch: a
combined approach to climate change
adaptation and Education for
Sustainable Development”
UNESCO, Trinidad and
Tobago National
Commission for
UNESCO
16-20 October Vanuatu Pacific Week of Agriculture  FAO
23 October FAO, Rome  09:00 – 18:30 Seminar: “Aquaculture and Blue
Growth Development Opportunities in
Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”
23-24 October Bali, Indonesia  09:00 – 17:00 Global Conference on Land-Ocean
connections
UN Environment
25-27 October Bali, Indonesia  10:00 – 16:00 Fourth Intergovernmental Review
Meeting of the Global Programme of
Action for the Protection of the Marine
Environment from Land-based
Activities
UN Environment
26 October FAO, Rome  09:00 – 11:00 COFI-SCA Agenda Item: “Aquaculture in the Small Island Developing States
(SIDS): Blue Growth Opportunities for
SIDS in a changing climate”
 FAO 9th COFI Sub-
Committee on Aquaculture
http://www.fao.org/cofi/aq/73970/en
11 November FAO, Rome High-Level Round table  FAO
 4-6 December  Nairobi, Kenya  10:00 – 18:00 Third Session of UN Environment
Assembly
UN Environment
 7-9 December Nairobi, Kenya  09:00 – 18:00 International Coral Reef Initiative
General Meeting
ICRI Secretariat and UN
Environment