DIARY - Global Environment

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:18 GMT

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Double click on for an index of all diaries For additional information on carbon market and climate policy events, please join the Reuters online carbon community at; http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon =========================================== THURSDAY, MAY 17 ASTANA - Islamic Conference of Environment Ministers (to May 18). TUESDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity. BRUSSELS - 12th edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy (to May 25). WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts State Premiers meeting to focus on grid expansion and increasing the use of offshore wind power.

TUESDAY, MAY 29 VIENTIANE - 4th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Education (AWGEE) (to May 30). THURSDAY, MAY 31 BERLIN - OECD launches Environmental performance Review of Germany. FRIDAY, JUNE 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability (to June 3).

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 LJUBLJANA - OECD launches Environmental performance Review of Slovenia.

MONDAY, JUNE 11 LUXEMBOURG - EU Meeting of Environment Council. TUESDAY, JUNE 12 NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar - 22nd Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity (AWGNCB) (to June 13).

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

MONDAY, JUNE 18 EUROPE - European sustainable energy week (to June 22).

TUESDAY, JUNE 19 JOHANNESBURG - Solar South Africa 2012 (to June 20). Link: http://www.greenpowerconferences.com/EF/?sSubSystem=Prospectus&sEventCode=SP1206ZA&sSessionID=65dd4e41a53b2e3227fb76d18faa9c38-11380248 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Earth Summit 2012 (to June 22). RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Peoples' Summit of Rio +20 (to June 21). WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 MANILA - 10th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) (to June 28).

SUNDAY, JULY 1 CANBERRA - Australia's new Carbon price laws comes into effect. The laws will force Australia's top 500 polluting companies to pay a price on carbon emissions from July 2012. MONDAY, JULY 16 KHABAROVSK, Russia - APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Environment.

MONDAY, JULY 23 VIENNA - International Conference on Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (to July 27). =========================================== Enquiries to Customer Help Desks -- double click on for telephone numbers. Reuters Diary Desk tel +91 80 66771088, (between 0130 GMT and 1730 GMT) or E -mail: diaries@thomsonreuters.com or sai.bhatt@thomsonreuters.com. NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.

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