The 24th Conference of Parties (COP 24) was held in Katowice, Poland, last December where around 23,000 delegates met to negotiate and adopt the Paris Agreement Rulebook, which is the operating manual needed to implement the global deal in 2020.

The Climate Change Projects, at this year's 9th edition of the iBEF, participated in two events tackling sustainable mobility and private sector engagement.

GIZ has provided support to the Lebanese Ministry of Environment to develop standard procedures for improved preparation and communication of GHG inventories in National Communications and BURs.

Lebanon hosted the 21st Cartagena Dialogue for Progressive Action meeting in Beirut on the 27th and 28th of September 2017 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Beirut. Over 60 participants from 35 countries attended the climate change meeting to discuss the way forward to COP 23 which was held in Bonn, Germany.

The iBEF is an annual event which showcases energy and sustainable development initiatives in Lebanon, and the climate change projects had three contributions to the forum in 2017, which include the launch of the DREI report, the LEDS and MISCA platform.

Under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Mr. Mohamad Al Mashnouk, the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme organized the 2016 Award Ceremony for Companies Reporting their GHG emissions on December 19th, 2016, at the Phoenicia Hotel.