Working Groups
A working group, or working party, is a group of experts working together to achieve specified goals. The groups are domain-specific and focus on discussion or activity around a specific subject area. The term can sometimes refer to an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers working on new activities that would be difficult to sustain under traditional funding mechanisms (e.g., federal agencies). The lifespan of a working group can last anywhere between a few months and several years. Such groups have the tendency to develop a quasi-permanent existence when the assigned task is accomplished; hence the need to disband (or phase out) …
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 19 February 2024 English
The sixth session of the Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) will be held in a hybrid format on 19 to 23 February 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenya. Informal consultations in the form of working groups/contact groups will be organized as hybrid …
WMO: World Meteorological Organisation · 30 November 2023 English
The WMO provisional State of the Global Climate report confirms that 2023 is set to be the warmest year on record. Data until the end of October shows that the …
Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 29 November 2023 English
The Regional Consultative Meeting for Europe will have hybrid elements to ensure the participation of those unable to join in person.
positions developed by the up-coming thematic working groups leading on our input on different UNEA resolutions …
IEN: Indigenous Environmental Network · 28 November 2023 English
Untitled Ethical Protocol for the Protection and Use of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Introduction The Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) is mandated to …
discussed in various United Nations organs, forums, working groups and such, or using a Traditional Indigenous …
SPUR: San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association · 27 November 2023 English
THE 15-MINUTE NEIGHBORHOOD Contents 4 Executive Summary 5 Suburban Environments Reimagined as More Urban, Walkable, and Mixed-Use Places 7 The 15-Minute Neighborhood and San José’s Urban Villages 13 The Context …
low- density city like San José. SPUR convened working groups, interviews, workshops, and stakeholder meetings …
23 November 2023
and Outreach at the Oasis Public Health Consulting Ltd. He has engaged in multiple projects and working groups as well as worked as an independent consultant for various international and national organisations …
GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 22 November 2023 English
section 2 of this order on any foreign person Use of the counter-corruption and counter-crime sanctions determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, …
specific regime and justify how such a graphic working groups, and member states tend to be designation falls …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 November 2023 English
There is no doubt that land cover and climate changes have consequences on landslide activity, but it is still an open issue to assess and quantify their impacts. Wanzhou County …
Change 2014: Synthesis Report Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report …
INET Oxford: Institute for New Economic Thinking · 22 November 2023 English
In particular, the considerable reduction in strong opposition toward carbon taxation (both initially and in the follow-up) – representing an upward shift in the lower end of the policy preference …
Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report …
WaterAid · 22 November 2023 English
Sanitation is a critical entry point in achieving outcomes This paper aims to consolidate data on the across all of the Sustainable Development status of climate change and sanitation in …
political leaders Active sanitation sector working groups and and spreading innovations in service delivery …
