Mauritius
02 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 October 2012: Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Jacques Chasteau de Balyon, Ambassador of the Republic of Mauritius to UNESCO, signed an agreement to formalize a US$20,000 contribution from Mauritius to UNESCO’s Multi-Donor Emergency Fund. Speaking at the 30 October 2012 signing, Bokova underscored UNESCO’s commitment to helping with the challenges faced by small island developing States (SIDS).
In relation to SIDS...
24 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 October 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released a report, titled “Transforming On-Grid Renewable Energy Markets,” which discusses creating enabling environments for renewable energy and supporting renewable energy through feed-in tariffs (FITs) and related price and market-access instruments. The report also reviews UNDP-Global Environmental Facility (GEF) support to help developing countries assess and address key barriers and risks to technology diffusion and investment....
24 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 October 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released its final issue of The Baobab Coalition Journal, a publication reporting on community activities and efforts under the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP). The issue features articles on information sharing on AAP efforts, food security and resilience, gender mainstreaming, and an editorial by the director.
“Localizing the climate change story” illustrates how AAP teams inform people about climate-related threats and opportunities...
09 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 September 2012: The Government of Samoa has announced that Pacific representatives have agreed that Samoa will host the Third Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Global Conference, scheduled to convene in 2014, while Fiji will host the preparatory meetings. Samoa and Fiji both offered to host the Conference, in their statements at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
According to a joint press release from the two governments, the agreement was made on the...
03 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 October 2012: On the sixth and final day of the High-level Debate of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), small island developing States (SIDS) called for ambitious commitments at the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting, underscored the importance of fisheries and renewable energy for sustainable development, and called for 2014 to be designated the International Year of SIDS.
Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign...
