CARICOM
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 October 2010: The general debate of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) for the 65th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened on 4 October 2010, in New York, US.
Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, noted the success of the recent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit and the supplementary side events on small island developing States (SIDS) and biodiversity, but underscored that many persistent challenges demand global attention. ...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has posted the final draft of the Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy, which includes a section on food stability focusing on improving the food and nutrition security resilience of the region to natural and socioeconomic shocks and climate change.
The draft seeks to provide a holistic policy framework for the period 2011-2025, translating the major orientations and elements of the overarching and underexploited regional...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 November 2010: The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) began its consideration of sustainable development on 1 November in New York, U.S.
Before the Committee were the following documents: the report of the Secretary-General on the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI) (document A/65/115); a letter dated 9 September 2010...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 November 2010: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, held a Regional Skills Training Workshop targeting the next generation of regional environmental negotiators.
The workshop was part of a capacity-building programme funded by the European Commission in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), to support African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) countries in implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) more effectively. It was organized by...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 November 2010: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has formalized a US$400,000 grant to pave the way for the preparation of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS).
The money will be used to finance a consultancy to assist in developing the C-SERMS, including the following tasks: defining a strategic and targeted regional approach to increase the contribution of renewable energy, energy efficiency and bioenergy in the energy mix; setting achievable targets (...
