Bonn’s calendar of events is well booked. The activities of the Bonn-based UN organisations and numerous international institutions centre on the issue of sustainability, above all in the fields of the environment and development. These future-oriented subjects are also the focus of the major international conferences of the United Nations.

Examples are:

• United Nations Climate Conferences
• 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
• The Global Media Forum organized by Deutsche Welle
• UN Talks on Afghanistan
• UN Conferences on Early Warning against natural disasters
• Bonn Conference for Global Transformation
• 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee