At the European Network of Environmental Communicators annual meeting in Annecy, France, the Aarhus Convention Secretariat was invited to present an update on outcomes of the third meeting of the Parties to the Convention (Riga, latvia, 11-13 June 2008). The secretariat informed the "Green Spiders", as the European Network members are known, of the mandate to establish an expert group on communication strategy to support the Convention's Strategic Plan, which was adopted in Riga.