Cook Islands
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...
29 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 January 2013: The Government of the Cook Islands has submitted a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) seeking support for implementation to pursue the objective of achieving electricity 100% based on renewable sources by 2020. The proposal includes an implementation plan to generate 50% of its energy production from renewables by 2015, phasing out its current diesel generator-dominated system.
The Cook Islands are currently dependent on imported diesel fuel that costs households...
07 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: The Compliance Assistance Programme of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP) is completing a series of Montreal Protocol Enforcement Training Workshops to help customs and enforcement officers in 12 Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) prepare for their Protocol commitments involving hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). The national workshops, launched in July 2012, are due to be completed in January 2013.
The workshops...
19 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States expressed their support for the UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) draft resolution on a decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) from 2014 to 2024 in The Sipopo Declaration, which was adopted at the Seventh Summit of ACP Heads of State and Government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea from 13-14 December 2012.
The draft resolution on SE4ALL declares the decade 2014-2024 to be the “UN Decade of SE4ALL” to promote the use of...
18 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched a publication titled “Catalysing Ocean Finance: Transforming Markets to Restore and Protect the Global Ocean,” in Washington, DC, US. The two-volume publication illustrates how public investment can reverse declines in global ocean health, scale up ocean planning and policy tools, leverage financial flows and transform ocean markets towards sustainability.
The publication includes a case...
