Antigua and Barbuda
30 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 January 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol and Project has released its January 2012 newsletter. This issue includes articles on: listing of Protected Areas under the SPAW Protocol; activities in support of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative; the Caribbean Waterbird Census; and Lionfish control and mitigation activities.
According to UNEP-SPAW, the listing of Protected Areas under the Protocol is a priority. As such, in December...
17 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 January 2012: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it will grant a €50 million line of credit to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to help finance borrowing member countries’ (BMC) efforts to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The credit line can be used to finance up to half of the aggregate total costs of eligible projects related to climate change, such as: energy efficiency; renewable energy; forestry and land use; low-carbon technology research,...
16 Jan 2012
The GEF Caribbean Expanded Constituency Workshop (ECW) will bring together GEF focal points, focal points from the main Conventions (Biodiversity, Desertification, Climate Change and POPs), representatives from civil society and representatives from GEF agencies. The purpose of the meeting is to keep these stakeholders abreast of GEF strategies, policies and procedures and to encourage coordination. It will include participants from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize Cuba, Dominica...
16 Jan 2012
The third meeting of the Cartagena Group/Dialogue for Progressive Action is expected to meet in Costa Rica from 29-30 October 2010. The Governments of Samoa and Antigua and Barbuda have also offered to host future meetings. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/second-meeting-of-the-cartagena-groupdialogue-for-progressive-action/ ]
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2011: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Division for Sustainable Development, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit has released the February 2011 edition of SIDS Newsletter. The newsletter provides a summary of key messages presented by Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio 2012), to a plenary meeting of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) on 21 January 2011.
Thompson suggested...
