EU
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 April 2010: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has published a document (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.2) including additional views on which the Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) may draw on in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among parties. The document includes 18 submissions from parties.
The 18 submissions are from: Argentina; Belarus; Bolivia; Botswana; Egypt; Ghana; Grenada, on behalf of the Alliance of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
31 May 2010: Representatives of the EU, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar and Nepal participated in Asia’s regional conference of the Global Climate Change Alliance on 30-31 May 2010, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The regional conference took stock of challenges posed by climate change in Asia, focusing on vulnerable countries’ specific problems, strategies and response actions, existing financial mechanisms and prospects for reaching an effective global agreement on...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 June 2010: During the 35th Session of the Joint Council of the EU-African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, held on 21-22 June 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the EU and ACP countries signed the second five-year revision of the Cotonou Agreement. The EU and ACP countries also adopted joint declarations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and climate change.
The agreement on the Contonou Agreement, among other things, includes new text on climate change in the context of a...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 June 2010: The EU has provided US$1.1 million to the Solomon Islands Government to host an international meeting of 200 climate change negotiators from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) to discuss key climate change issues ahead of the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, scheduled to take place in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of 2010.
Representatives from 91 countries that are parties to the UNFCCC will participate in the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 June 2010: The European Commission released its Annual Report 2010 on the implementation of the EU’s development and external assistance policies in 2009, including climate financing.
According to the report, the EU intensified its cooperation and dialogue on climate change with developing partners in 2009, including through innovative funding modalities. The report points in particular to: the Global Climate Change Alliance, which received an allocation of €35 million to support poor...
