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30 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 November 2012: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is consulting Community member governments to assess the current state of national environmental statistics collection, management, and dissemination. The focus is on statistics related to agriculture and land use, biodiversity, coastal and marine resources, and forestry.
The exercise undertaken by the CARICOM Secretariat’s Regional Statistics Programme is part of the EU-funded project on Capacity Building Related to...
16 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 November 2012: The European Council adopted conclusions on climate finance during the 3198th meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council. The Council confirmed contribution to date of €7.1 billion by the EU to meet its fast start finance (FSF) commitments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
In its conclusions, the EU reaffirms its commitment to contribute €7.2 billion to help meet the collective commitment by developed countries in the Copenhagen Accord...
16 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: In a “Question and Answers” memo on illegal fishing, the European Commission discusses its decision to warn eight third countries of the risk of being identified as non-cooperative. The Commission’s decision to warn the countries - Belize, Cambodia, Fiji, Guinea, Panama, Sri Lanka, Togo and Vanuatu - comes after an analysis of reported violations, using criteria of the EU’s Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Regulation.The analysis...
07 Nov 2012
This workshop will demonstrate the use of innovative integrated environmental assessment (IEA) tools to generate win-win scenarios for achieving national development priorities through more effective implementation of multilateral environment agreements (MEAs), with a focus on mainstreaming in relation to a cluster of biodiversity-related MEAs. The workshop is part of the EU-funded Multilateral Environment Agreements in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP MEAs) Project. [ for more...
31 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 October 2012: In a meeting on 25 October 2012, the EU Council adopted conclusions on follow-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The Council welcomed the registry of sustainable development commitments, as well as outcomes on: promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production (SCP), a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and the establishment of a High-Level Political Forum (HLPF).
On a green economy,...
