| Date | 
        Place | 
        Meeting | 
      
      
        | 7-12 Apr | 
        Melbourne | 
        World Water Congress 2002 | 
      
      
        | 7-26 Apr | 
        The Hague | 
        6th Conference of
        The Parties To The Convention on Biodiversity/Cartagena Protocol Mop-1 | 
      
      
        | 8-9 Apr | 
        Manchester, UK | 
        International Conference on
        Climate Change & The Built Environment | 
      
      
        | 8-12 Apr | 
        Madrid | 
        2nd World Assembly on Ageing | 
      
      
        | 8-12 Apr | 
        Costa Rica | 
        18th Meeting of the CITES
        Animals Committee | 
      
      
        | 8-20 Apr | 
        Cape Town/Gobabeb, Namibia | 
        Symposium on Alternative Ways
        to Combat Desertification | 
      
      
        | 15-19 Apr | 
        London | 
        Programme on Climate Change -
        Science, Impacts & Policy Responses | 
      
      
        | 16-26 Apr | 
        New York | 
        12th Meeting of The States
        Parties to the UN Convention on The Law of The Sea | 
      
      
        | 21-25 Apr | 
        Bled, Slovenia | 
        International Conference on
        Drought Mitigation & Prevention of Land Desertification | 
      
      
        | Apr | 
        Bamf, Canada | 
        G-8 Environment Ministers
        Meeting | 
      
      
        |   | 
          | 
          |