Paris, France - At the invitation of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres – the United Nations’ top climate change official – and France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius – the president of the UNFCCC 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will join the world’s climate leaders in Paris, France later this week for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Washington, DC - The United States and Cuba held biannual Migration Talks on November 30 at the U.S. Department of State.  Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Alex Lee led the discussions for the United States; Director General Josefina Vidal of the U.S. Division of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs led the Cuban delegation. 

West Lafayette, Indiana - The fifth Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security is June 5-18 at Purdue University for 40 graduate students from across the country taking on the challenge of finding solutions to world hunger.

Davis, California - Mining millions of proteins could become faster and easier with a new technique that may also transform the enzyme-catalyst industry, according to University of California, Davis, researchers.

Washington, DC - The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XX, Eastern Europe.

Davis, California - In a world with a burgeoning demand for meat, milk and eggs, regulatory policies around the use of biotechnologies in agriculture need to be based on the safety and attributes of those foods rather than on the methods used to produce them, says a UC Davis animal scientist.