Vanuatu
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...
07 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: The Compliance Assistance Programme of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP) is completing a series of Montreal Protocol Enforcement Training Workshops to help customs and enforcement officers in 12 Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) prepare for their Protocol commitments involving hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). The national workshops, launched in July 2012, are due to be completed in January 2013.
The workshops...
18 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched a publication titled “Catalysing Ocean Finance: Transforming Markets to Restore and Protect the Global Ocean,” in Washington, DC, US. The two-volume publication illustrates how public investment can reverse declines in global ocean health, scale up ocean planning and policy tools, leverage financial flows and transform ocean markets towards sustainability.
The publication includes a case...
23 Nov 2012
Convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), this two-week course is open to participants from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The course will focus on landfill and dumpsite management, leachate treatment and management, and environmental monitoring. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/waste-...
16 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 October 2012: The Australia Maritime and Safety Authority (AMSA), in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), hosted a workshop on the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) in Sydney, as part of a series of five workshops held throughout the Pacific region to review and update aspects of the PACPLAN.
PACPLAN designates Australia as the primary source of assistance for marine pollution incidents in Kiribati, Nauru,...
