Barbados
05 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 September 2012: Commonwealth foreign ministers have agreed on a draft Charter and discussed a new strategic plan for the Commonwealth Secretariat. According to a Seychelles press release, the draft Charter enshrines the Commonwealth’s commitment to support small and vulnerable countries, in particular small island developing States (SIDS), in new and more fundamental ways.
The meeting of ministers took place in New York, US, on 29 September 2012, on the margins of the 67th Session of the UN...
03 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 October 2012: On the sixth and final day of the High-level Debate of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), small island developing States (SIDS) called for ambitious commitments at the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting, underscored the importance of fisheries and renewable energy for sustainable development, and called for 2014 to be designated the International Year of SIDS.
Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign...
27 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 September 2012: At a high-level meeting on sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL), speakers welcomed developments in the governance of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s SE4ALL initiative, highlighted new kinds of partnerships being forged around sustainable energy, and called for a move from commitments to tangible impact. Ban also announced changes to the governance of the initiative for its implementation phase.
Helen Clark, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, noted that small...
25 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 September 2012: The 11th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change concluded with the adoption of a joint statement in which the leaders reiterate their commitment to a successful outcome of the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to take place at the end of 2012, in Doha, Qatar.
Ministers from Brazil, China, India and South Africa (BASIC) held their 12th meeting from 20-21 September 2012, in Brasilia, Brazil....
15 Sep 2012
CLIMATE 2012 / KLIMA 2012 is being organized by the Research and Transfer Centre of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and will consider the themes "Climate Change, Island States and Sustainable Technologies". The conference will introduce the latest scientific findings and technological developments related to climate change, and examine their links with renewable energy in small island nations. The patron of the 2012 worldwide online climate conference is Mohamed Ibn Chambas...
