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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 July 2011: The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) and the EU have entered into an agreement to, among other things, support Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries in meeting the challenges of climate change.
Under the agreement, the EU has allocated €8 million to support 17 CARIFORUM countries to meet the challenges of climate change. The four-year project will be managed by the CCCCC, with the objective of developing and strengthening the Caribbean region’s efforts in reducing...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 July 2011: The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has published the 12th issue of its Climate Change News Update, which reports on recent developments in European and Australian law related to climate change mitigation.
The News Update highlights that the European Parliament has rejected a key report that would have toughened the EU stance on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and has voted against increasing the EU target from 20% to 30% greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts below...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 July 2011: Pacific small island States most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change will benefit from a new climate resilience project worth EUR11.4 million, funded by the EU and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) over the next four years, the SPC has announced.
The project, titled “Increasing Climate Resilience of Pacific Small Islands States through the Global Climate Change Alliance,” will support the Governments of Cook Islands, Kiribati,...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 July 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published ten submissions (FCCC/SBSTA/2011/MISC.10) on views on carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in geological formations as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities.
The submissions are from: Australia; Grenada, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS); Hungary, on behalf of the EU; Indonesia; Japan; Norway; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates (UAE); and the US.
In addition, ten submissions from admitted...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 August 2011: The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has announced that Pacific fisheries and trade Ministers are meeting this week in an effort to advance consideration of fisheries-related issues arising from the Pacific African, Caribbean and Pacific (PACP) – European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
According to PIFS, the issue of fish stocks is instrumental to the region’s negotiations for an EPA with the EU. Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Secretary General of PIFS, stressed...
