| Date | Event | Venue | Organizer |
| 20 Jan 2008 | COP-8 Bureau meeting
| Montreal, Canada | CBD |
21 Jan -
25 Jan 2008 | Sixth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS-6)
| Geneva, Switzerland | CBD |
| 10 Feb 2008 | COP-8 Bureau meeting
(CBD)
| Rome, Italy | CBD |
11 Feb -
15 Feb 2008 | Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA-2)
| Rome, Italy | CBD |
11 Feb -
14 Feb 2008 | Africa Regional Working Conference on Gender, Water, Sanitation and Sustainable Livelihoods
| Gaborone, Botswana | UNCCD |
14 Feb -
15 Feb 2008 | Liaison Group on Capacity-building for Biosafety (CBD)
| Montreal, Canada | CBD |
| 17 Feb 2008 | SBSTTA Bureau meeting
| Rome, Italy | CBD |
18 Feb -
22 Feb 2008 | Thirteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-13)
| Rome, Italy | CBD |
27 Feb -
28 Feb 2008
To be confirmed | Asia Thematic Programme Network on Integrated Local Area Development (TPN6) Regional Workshop: Support for Local Area Development Initiatives (UNCCD)
| Islamabad, Pakistan | UNCCD |
03 Mar -
07 Mar 2008 | Conference on "Science with Africa: Accelerating Science and Technology in Africa" (UNCCD)
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | UNCCD |
06 Mar -
07 Mar 2008 | Drought Management Centre for South Eastern Europe (DMCSEE) International Steering Committee meeting (UNCCD)
| Bled, Slovenia | UNCCD |
10 Mar -
12 Mar 2008 | Second Africa Regional Meeting on the National Committees of UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (UNCCD)
| Cape Town, South Africa | UNCCD |
| 25 Mar 2008 | Technical Meeting on the Sub-regional Action Programme for Mesoamerica (UNCCD)
| Guatemala City, Guatemala | UNCCD |
26 Mar -
28 Mar 2008 | Joint Article 8(j) and Clearing-House Mechanism Capacity-Building Workshop on
Networking and Information Exchange (Africa region) (CBD)
| To be confirmed | CBD |
10 Apr -
11 Apr 2008 | Northeast Asia Sub-regional Action Programme Preparatory Workshop (UNCCD)
| Bangkok, Thailand | UNCCD |
21 Apr -
25 Apr 2008 | Workshop on Financial Resource Mobilization for Strengthening the Regional Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) within the UNCCD Framework
| Prague, Czech Republic | UNCCD |
05 May -
16 May 2008 | Sixteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development: Agriculture, Rural development, Land, Drought, Desertification, and Africa (UNFCCC)
| New York, USA | UNFCCC |
| 11 May 2008 | CBD COP-8 Bureau meeting
| Bonn, Germany | CBD |
12 May -
16 May 2008 | Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CBD COP/MOP-4)
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| Bonn, Germany | CBD |
| 18 May 2008 | CBD COP-CMP Bureau meeting
| Bonn, Germany | CBD |
19 May -
30 May 2008 | Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP-9)
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| Bonn, Germany | CBD |
| 22 May 2008 | IBD 2008: International Day for Biological Diversity (CBD)
| Multiple Venues | CBD |
26 May -
27 May 2008 | Second meeting on Establishing a Drought Management Centre in Central Asia in the context of the UNCCD
| Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | UNCCD |
| 27 May 2008 | High level Policy Dialogue on the operationalisation of the UNCCD ten-year Strategy
| Bonn, Germany | UNCCD |
28 May -
30 May 2008 | High Level Segment of COP-9 (CBD)
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| Bonn, Germany | CBD |
01 Jun 2008
To be confirmed | Launching Meeting of the Regional Committee on Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNCCD)
| Bahia, Brazil | UNCCD |
02 Jun -
13 Jun 2008 | SB 28
Subsidiary Bodies, Twenty-eighth session
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| Bonn | UNFCCC |
| 17 Jun 2008 | World Day to Combat Desertificaton (UNCCD)
| Worldwide | UNCCD |
01 Aug 2008
To be confirmed | Thirteenth Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Meeting preparatory to CRIC7 (UNCCD)
| Montevideo, Uruguay | UNCCD |
01 Nov 2008
To be confirmed | Fifth Asia-Africa Forum on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
| Beijing, China | UNCCD |
17 Nov -
21 Nov 2008 | Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change
| London, United Kingdom | CBD |
01 Dec -
12 Dec 2008 | COP 14, CMP 4 and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies
Conference of the Parties (COP), Fourteenth session and Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Fourth session and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies
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| Poznań, Poland | UNFCCC |
