This month's highlights: Climate Change 2023: Release of the IPCC’s 6th assessment report (AR6) • Multilateral Development Bank Efforts to Mainstream Climate Adaptation • UN 2023 Water Conference’s commitments to urgently tackle the water crisis • Assessment of a forest conservation payments project in Brazil • New CITES trade rules come into effect for hundreds of species and celebrating 50 years of CITES • Launch of the Freshwater Challenge initiative ever to restore rivers and wetlands • Minamata Convention 2022 Progress Report • Stakeholder meeting to support the implementation of the Minamata Convention in Saint Kitts • The Asia-Pacific regional preparatory meeting for the 2023 COPs to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions • Workshop: Visualizing Climate Change for Impact • Stakeholder meeting to support the implementation of the Minamata Convention in Saint Kitts