Sao Tome and Principe
02 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 July 2012: Germanwatch launched a website addressing loss and damage caused by climate change, aiming to support Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in calling for action on the issue. The topic is increasingly relevant for LDCs, Germanwatch notes, as agreement to deliver mitigation commitments in line with staying below 2°C/1.5°C has not been yet achieved.
The website is part of the “Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative,” which runs from February 2012 through March...
27 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 July 2012: The Congo Basin Forest Fund, launched by the Governments of Norway and the UK, through the African Development Bank (AfDB), is funding a regional initiative to help ten Central African countries to set up advanced national forest monitoring systems. The initiative will focus on providing technical support to countries enabling them to use remote sensing technologies to estimate forest cover and forest cover changes, as well as to estimate the amount of carbon stocks contained in...
16 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
June 2012: The UN Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has published a background paper reviewing the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It argues that climate change should not be regarded as a new and separate handicap, but as a factor that could aggravate existing handicaps to development.
The paper, titled “Climate Change Vulnerability and the Identification of Least Developed Countries,” is...
16 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 July 2012: At its 24th session, the International Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added 20 new sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR), including in São Tomé and Principe and Haiti for the first time. Biosphere Reserves are sites established by countries and recognized under the MAB Programme to promote sustainable development based on community efforts and sound science. ...
06 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 June 2012: A workshop organized by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat on implementing Article 6 on education, training and public awareness in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has identified the need for dedicated financing, national plans and strategies to implement Article 6.
Participants from LDCs, as well as representatives from the EU, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)/UN CC:Learn, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN...
