The "One Country One Priority Product (OCOP): Regional Organizing Group (ROG) Meeting (Extended) & and the International Capacity Building Workshop on Geographical Indications Environment & Sustainability (GIES) for Special Agricultural Products (SAPs) Development " were held at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Representatives from 22 countries as well as international organizations such as the International Scientific Data Committee (CODATA) and the World Data System (WDS) attended the meeting. Zhang Linxiu, Director of UNEP-IEMP, and Senior Researcher Sun Mingxing participated in the conference.

On September 13, Director Zhang Linxiu served in a panel discussion "One Country One Priority Product Geographical Indication Ecosystem" framework (OCOP GIES Framework) and stated that UNEP-IEMP, as the only global center of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) based in a developing country and serving developing countries, supports the relevant work of the framework. On September 21, Dr. Sun Mingxing delivered a presentation titled "Nexus Approaches for Tackling Triple Planetary Crisis & Application in Agricultural System," introducing the basic information and relevant work of UNEP-IEMP, particularly the CEL (Climate-Ecosystems-Livelihoods) framework and case studies on using integrated approaches to address challenges in agricultural and food systems. Director Zhang Linxiu and Dr. Sun Mingxing engaged in extensive exchanges with representatives from different countries, who expressed strong interest in UNEP-IEMP's global cooperation network and related research projects and conveyed their expectations for further collaboration with UNEP-IEMP.