This meeting will seek to help identify relevant policy actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in maritime transport, while furthering other objectives such as transport efficiency, trade facilitation, trade competitiveness and sustainable development. The overall objective of the meeting is to gain a clearer vision of the format, scope and content of a potential new regime on greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and to help ascertain the economic and policy implications of various mitigation measures, including on the trade competitiveness of developing countries.  

dates: 6-18 February 2009  
location: Geneva, Switzerland  
contact: UNCTAD Secretariat, Intergovernmental Support Service  
fax: 41 22 917 0214  
e-mail: meetings@unctad.org  
www: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=15862&info=highlights