Emerging Global Leadership on Climate Stabilization: Why China Will Step Froward
Brown Bag Talk hosted jointly by GEF IEO and GEF Secretariat's Climate Change Team

Speaker:

• Dr. Peter H. Koehn, Professor of Political Science and University if Montana Distinguished Scholar

Co-Hosts:

• Dr. Juha I. Uitto, Director of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office and
• Dr. Ming Yang, Senior Climate Change Specialist of the GEF

The webinar will focus on the publication of the book Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development which had its genesis in the Earth-Eval following the Second International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development. Some of you may remember this event from November 2014 that brought together about 300 leading experts and policymakers in the field to Washington, DC for 3 days.

At its 51^st meeting in October 2016, the GEF Council requested the Trustee, in cooperation with the Secretariat, to initiate discussions on the 7^th replenishment of resources of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-7). The 1^st replenishment meeting provided an opportunity for Contributing Participants to review GEF performance and evaluate progress, assess future funding needs, and agree on a financing framework.

The 8th African evaluation Association (AfrEA) International Conference "Evaluation of the SDGs: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa" will take place from March 27-30, 2017 in Kampala, Uganda. The IEO will participate in two workshop sessions:

Climate Change and Resilience: Evaluation and Learning


Wednesday 29 March, 17:00-18:00 local time, Room 18

The IEO has been invited to present its Land Degradation VFM study at the ‘Land and Poverty' conference hosted by the World Bank. The IEO session is on 21st March at 10:30 am.