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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 August 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the European Commission International Trade Centre are working to improve access to information for small farmers and farmer organisations to facilitate increased market participation. To this end, SPC convened a workshop on the establishment of a subregional market information system (MIS) in Suva, Fiji, from 17-19 August 2011.
Participants from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, ...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
Negotiators attending a major UN conference on disaster reduction have agreed on a ten-year plan to build the resilience of countries and communities to disasters.
They also adopted a statement on the recent Indian Ocean tsunami aimed at reducing the risks of such disasters in future.
The UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR), which was held from 18-22 January 2005, in Kobe, Japan, took place just weeks after an earthquake-tsunami in the Indian Ocean led to the deaths of over 200,...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
Held under the theme “Growth and Competitiveness in Small States” with a focus on investment, the 2004 Small States Forum took place on 3 October in Washington, DC.
The meeting was organized around a panel discussion that heard from both the private and public sectors, and addressed issues relating to competitiveness and resilience of small state economies from natural events, disease, globalization, as well as loss of trade preferences.
Delegates heard presentations from the Commonwealth...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2005: The 23rd session of the UNEP Governing Council/ Global Environment Ministerial Forum concluded with key decisions on chemicals management, UNEP’s water policy and strategy, and international environmental governance (IEG).
During the week, delegates convened in plenary sessions, a Committee of the Whole, a drafting group and two open-ended contact groups to consider draft decisions. A three-day ministerial consultation considered the implementation of the internationally agreed...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
Meetings to consider biodiversity loss have been briefed on the need to increase efforts to address the problem.
The fourth Intergovernmental Conference “Biodiversity in Europe” and the tenth meeting of the Council of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy were held from 22-24 February 2006, in Lake Plitvice National Park, Croatia. Participants considered issues on the agenda of the upcoming eighth Conference of the Parties to the CBD, focusing on island biodiversity,...
