Cape Verde
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27 Aug 2012
PREPARED BY OHRLLS
SUMMARY
The 2012 Third World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), saw 36 representatives and heads of state from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) take to the floor during the Plenary Session to deliver statements on a range of issues of importance and relevance to them. Of the 36 SIDS representatives, 10 were Heads of State while 10 were Heads of Government making up 26% of the 77 Heads of State and Heads of Government who addressed the Plenary...
19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 March 2013: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has completed a three-day Expanded Capacity Workshop (ECW) for the West African Sahel, bringing together focal points from the GEF, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Representatives from civil society, the GEF Secretariat, and the GEF Agencies, also...
08 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2013: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Global Mechanism (GM) has launched a revamped web-based platform titled “Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – Finance.” The site will support the exchange of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, many of which are also small island developing States (SIDS).
The platform, which is part of the EU-funded Scope|ACP project, a South...
28 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 September 2012: On the third day of the High-level Debate of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Comoros, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Maldives, and Antigua and Barbuda underscored the importance to small island developing States (SIDS) of addressing climate change. Solomon Islands, Jamaica and Cape Verde addressed other aspects of development in SIDS.
Ikililou Dhoinine, President of Comoros, highlighted ongoing challenges posed by climate change, including heavy...
25 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 September: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has convened the 59th session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board, which discussed the situation of the world’s least devloped countries (LDCs).
The discussion focused on UNCTAD’s Programme of Action for the LDCs for the Decade 2011-2020, which includes a 2020 target of having half the world’s LDCs, many of which are small island developing States (SIDS), on track to “graduate” from the LDC...
