EU
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 March 2011: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pledged UN support to help Pacific Island States reduce climate risks and respond to climate impacts, in a message to the High Level Regional Conference on climate change in the Pacific, held in Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 4 March 2011.
He pointed to the need to press for deeper emission cuts and to obtain resources for adaptation and capacity-building efforts in international climate change negotiations, and welcomed efforts by some Pacific Island...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 March 2011: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) is issuing a call for proposals for its Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Support Programme to African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP-FLEGT).
The ACP-FLEGT Programme provides support to countries to implement the EU FLEGT Action Plan, a package of measures set out by the European Commission in follow-up to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The Action Plan aims to address illegal logging...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 March 2011: The Acting Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, said the Caribbean region needs to intensify its quest for development finance to support the tourism industry in the region.
Applewhaite was speaking at the opening of the Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on 14 March 2011. Applewhaite’s call for intensified finance-seeking was delivered in light of the critical importance that tourism represents for the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 April 2011: A workshop in Paramaribo, Suriname, trained officials from 17 Caribbean nations in the use of Integrated Environmental Assessments for mainstreaming Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The workshop took place from 29 March-1 April 2011.
The workshop was organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with support from the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Integrating Watershed and Costal Areas Management in Small Island Caribbean Developing States (IWCAM) Project...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 May 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has announced that the European Union (EU) has contributed EUR3 million over five years to the newly formed International Network for Edible Aroids (INEA), a consortium of scientists and growers from all over the world.
The aim of the Network, of which SPC and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) are the implementing agencies, is to implement a project titled “Adapting Clonally...
