EU
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2008: Meetings have been held in Africa and the Pacific as part of regional preparations for upcoming ninth Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
A meeting of African leaders on access and benefit-sharing was held from 10-12 April 2008, in Mahé, Seychelles, as part of preparations for the high-level segment. In his statement to the meeting, CBD Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf underlined that “access and benefit-sharing is a corner stone of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 July 2008: In a speech delivered during the conference
The European
Union (EU) and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to Counter Climate Change and
Biodiversity Loss,” which was hosted on Reunion Island,
Mauritius, from 7-11 July 2008, under the auspices of the French Presidency of
the Council of the EU, Michel Jarraud,
Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), provided
an overview of the Organization’s history and work in tackling climate change.
He outlined the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 September 2008: The European Parliament’s Development Committee has adopted a report arguing that the budget proposed by the European Commission to help developing countries fight climate change is not enough, and suggesting that the Global Climate Change Alliance should receive at least 25% of the revenue of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Alliance proposed by the European Commission is intended to help the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) limit the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
At the initiative of the EU, Heads of delegation of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) gathered in London, UK, from 31 March – 1 April 2009, to consider NEAFC measures to implement the UN General Assembly resolution calling for vulnerable marine ecosystems to be closed for bottom-gear fishing activities.
The meeting was attended by the EU, Iceland, Denmark in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Norway and the Russian Federation. The parties agreed to a proposal...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 September 2009: The Division for Sustainable Development (DSD), of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), has posted member States’ submissions of input towards the Secretary-General’s report on Climate Change and Possible Security Implications.
Submissions from the following member States are posted in the format and the language received: Argentina; Bahamas; Bangladesh; Brazil; Jamaica on behalf of CARICOM; Chile; China; Sweden on behalf of EU; Finland; Guatemala;...
