Haiti
25 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 May 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has reported on progress achieved in the reforestation of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic under a project titled Green Border, implemented by UNDP in partnership with the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Green Border is a four-year project on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic that aims to reduce community vulnerability to natural disaster risk in shared rivers and...
14 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 May 2012: The World Bank has presented the results of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a programme designed to promote rapid access to emergency financing in cases of severe weather-based disasters in the Caribbean.
CCRIF provides Caribbean countries with hurricane and earthquake insurance for a cost that is 45-50% lower than that provided by insurance markets. This price difference results from the CCRIF agenda of aggregating individual country risk, and then...
04 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 April 2012: The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in cooperation with the Lauritas Sisters order of nuns, is distributing and helping to install cookstoves to more than 800 Haitian families. The stoves are more energy efficient, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and help cut deforestation.
According to the IICA Representative in Haiti, Alfredo Mena, firewood is the main source of energy in Haiti and its use in traditional and inefficient three-stone open...
01 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 April 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has released a synthesis report on support for the national adaptation plan (NAP) process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (FCCC/SBI/2012/8).
The report synthesizes the views submitted by UNFCCC Parties and relevant organizations and agencies regarding support for the NAP process for LDCs, and addresses: how organizations and agencies have responded to the invitation to support the NAP process in LDCs...
27 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 April 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) has published the report of the 21st meeting of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Expert Group (LEG). The report contains the LEG’s two-year rolling work programme for 2012–2013 and an update on efforts to implement its work (FCCC/SBI/2012/7).
During the meeting, which was held in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 9-13 March 2012, the LEG focused on issues relating to: the implementation of national adaptation...
