UNEP also acts as the sponsor for a variety of international conferences, programmes, plans, and agreements.
The conference programme is splattered with adverts proclaiming the SNP's support for the third runway at Heathrow.
These seismic events even led David Cameron to scrap his own conference programme in an attempt to show that he understood the public's anxiety.
But, generally, the Tories have not been showcasing their candidates and the elections only received a modest slot in the conference programme.
The conference programme is full of reports of treating not tens, but tens of thousands, of people in townships and slums around the world.
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Within minutes the political reporter Michael Crick had been bashed over the head with a conference programme, something that many politicians have wanted to do over the years, but it was unhelpful nonetheless for Bloom to do it.
Bloom is now an independent MEP for Yorkshire and Humber after he was criticised for calling women at a meeting sluts and hitting the Channel 4 News journalist Michael Crick over the head with a conference programme.
But having read the conference programme, I am struck by the fact that not one of the 52 speakers listed was billed to defend Israel's right to exist.
One of the bigger challenges attendees is poring over the 160-page conference programme in order to select a handful of lectures, seminars, symposia, briefings, etc, dozens of which run in parallel, taking up most of Vancouver's vast convention centre from Friday through Monday.
