Haiti
Bill
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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...
02 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 March 2013: The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) hosted a discussion of the successes and challenges involved with implementing Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phase out Management Plans under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
The meeting convened the English speaking Caribbean and Haiti Ozone Officers Regional Network Meeting in Basseterre, St. Kitts from 18-...
01 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 February 2013: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced that La Selle, in Haiti, has been officially declared as Haiti’s first biosphere reserve.
According to UNESCO, the La Selle area includes a number of different ecosystems and protected areas including La Visite, one of the country’s most important biodiversity sites, and the forest reserve Forêt-des-pins, Haiti’s biggest pine reserve, which is dominated by the endemic pine species Pinus...
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...
25 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) has launched a section of its Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform on the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The page on the OWG - the establishment of which was recently agreed in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) - is part of a broader section on the SDGs and related resources.
The webpage includes information on: the UN System Technical Support Team (TST); the text from the UN Conference on...
