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Financial items to be forwarded to the CoP-31<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">IAI\/EC\/55\/4<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-CE-55-4-en.pdf\">English&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-CE-55-4-es.pdf\">Spanish<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Establishment of a committee to recommend candidates for the Science Advisory Committee (SAC) elections, on the second day of CoP-31<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">No document<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>Report of the Executive Council<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">No document<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>a. Welcome to the new Executive Director: Presentation of the new Executive Director to the Executive Council<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">IAI\/EC\/55\/6a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-EC-55-6-a-en.pdf\">English<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-EC-55-6-a-es.pdf\">Spanish<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>b. Decision XXX\/4: Report on recruitment for the Executive Director&nbsp;<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">IAI\/EC\/53\/6b&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-EC-55-6-b-en.pdf\">English<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-CoP-31-6-b-es.pdf\">Spanish<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>c. Decision XXIX\/9: Report on&nbsp;<em>Initiative for conducting a national climate assessment in support o adaptation and mitigation: Training and capacity building in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/em><\/td><td colspan=\"2\">IAI\/EC\/55\/6c&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-EC-55-6-c-en.pdf\">English<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/IAI-EC-55-6-c-es.pdf\">Spanish<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Discussion on election of Executive Council members and Bureau at CoP-31<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">No document<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Closing remarks (Host Government, Parties, Observers, IAI Directorate)<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">No document<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Information documents<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing Rules of the Executive Council of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/iai-ec-rules-eng-2021.pdf\">English<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/iai-ec-rules-esp-2021(1).pdf\">Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logistical information<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/MANUAL%20INFORMATIVO%20PANAM%C3%81%20CoP-31%20IAI.pdf\">Spanish<\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/MANUAL%20INFORMATIVO%20PANAM%C3%81%20CoP-31%20IAI-eng.pdf\">English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iai.int\/administrador\/assets\/images\/ckfinder\/files\/CE-55-List%20of%20Participants.pdf\">See the EC-55 participants list<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/en\/reuniones-ec-y-cop\/\">Return to EC and COP Meetings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda and information documents Agenda Item Document Tuesday, 20 June 20239:00 &#8211; 12:00 Opening of the meeting Welcome by Executive Council Chair Welcome by the IAI Executive Director Administrative and financial matters 1 Approval of the agenda IAI\/EC\/55\/1&nbsp;English&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Spanish 2 Approval of the Report of the 53th and 54th meeting of the EC IAI\/EC\/55\/EC-53&nbsp;English&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;SpanishIAI\/EC\/55\/EC-54&nbsp;English&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Spanish 3 Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12448,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12516","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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