Dominican Republic
19 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 December 2012: A national forum hosted by the Dominican Republic’s Environment Ministry, with technical support from the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), has set priorities for national chemicals management.
The National Forum on Governance and Priority Setting for Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) Implementation was held from 29-30 November 2012 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The Forum, attended by some 50 representatives of...
13 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 December 2012: The Organization of American States (OAS) has announced the 14 recipients of small grants under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) “Sustainable Communities in Central America and the Caribbean” project.
The winning proposals were announced by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulsa at a formal ceremony held at OAS Headquarters on 10 December 2012.
The project, funded by the US and implemented by OAS within the ECPA framework, seeks to...
04 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 December 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) launched the UN Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The Alliance...
03 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) recently held a technical forum discussing five case studies from Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries on climate change and agriculture.
The forum was held at IICA headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica, but was also webcast so that officials and experts throughout the hemisphere could benefit from the discussion.
The case studies are from a project in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico...
03 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 November 2012: The 11 signatory countries to the Declaration on the Application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development have agreed on the “Road Map for the Formulation of an Instrument on the Application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The road map was agreed at the first meeting of focal points from signatory countries, which convened in November 2012, at UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)...
