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Contact: Ara Tai Rakena, Americas Division, +64 4 439 8446
Uruguay will host, with New Zealand and Australian support, the first regional workshop of the Livestock Emissions Abatement Research Network (LEARN) for Latin America. LEARN was launched by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry last November in Christchurch as a means of pooling the efforts of experts from around the world working to minimise greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. Many South American countries, like New Zealand, have large livestock sectors and important animal emissions issues.
Contact: Renee Heal, Environment Division, +64 439 8746
The 2nd Annual Climate Change Summit will provide an insight and information on solutions, Government policy and legislation, case studies and investment trends for Australia’s transition to a low carbon economy. Some of the issues that will be discussed at the Summit will be focussed on Political/Legislation solutions, adaptation and technological solutions.
A delegation of Arab Heads of Mission accredited to New Zealand but resident in Canberra will visit Wellington for meetings with the Prime Minister and the Trade, Defence and Disarmament Minister, as well as for discussions with officials. The delegation will include the ambassadors of Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and the Head of the General Palestine Delegation. Discussion topics will focus on regional and multilateral issues and trade and economic cooperation.
The conference is being organised by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, and is jointly sponsored by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Norwegian and Chilean Ministries of Foreign Affairs. MFAT Legal Director Gerard Van Bohemen is a speaker at the conference, and Antarctic Policy Unit Head Trevor Hughes will chair an expert panel on illegal unreported and unregulated fishing. Professor John Montgomery from Auckland University and Joanna Mossop from Victoria University are also conference speakers.
Contact: Renee Heal, Environment Division, +64 4 439 8746
Negotiations are currently underway in the United Nations to strengthen international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to tackle the adverse effects of climate change. The Accra meetings are part of an ongoing negotiating process which is scheduled to conclude in Copenhagen at the end of next year( 2009 ).
Some of the issues being discussed in Accra will include the role and rules for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), possible sectoral approaches to reducing emissions, and reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
Contact: Lucy Richardson, +64 4 439 8032 or Alice Revell, +64 4 439 8340
Chris Beeby was a New Zealand diplomat and international jurist, with a life-long interest in the development and implementation of international law. Over a 32 year career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Chris made lasting contributions to the Law of the Sea, Antarctica, the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty and international environmental law. After retiring from the Ministry in 1995 he was selected as an inaugural member of the Appellate Body, the new judicial organ at the apex of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute settlement system, where he served with distinction until his death in 2000. The annual Beeby Colloquium honours Chris’s contributions to international law and provides an opportunity for the New Zealand international law community – from the Universities, the public service, legal practice and the judiciary – to come together to discuss issues of current interest. It is a forum for information sharing, dialogue and cooperation.
There will be a public lunchtime address held at Victoria University of Wellington Law School. Further details, including location, speakers and discussion topics will be available shortly.
Contact: Heath Fisher, International Security & Disarmament Division, +64 4 439 8071
New Zealand will host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise, called Exercise Maru, in Auckland from 15 - 19 September. Exercise Maru is an across-government exercise that will test New Zealand's ability to halt a Weapons of Mass Destruction-related shipment transiting our borders and will also test post-seizure procedures. A number of fellow PSI supporting countries will participate in the exercise, which is being led by the New Zealand Customs Service, as well as observers from the Asia-Pacific region.
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