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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 August 2010: The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is holding its 41st Annual Meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 3-6 August 2010, to give political guidance to the region, including on climate change.
The meeting comprises: the Smaller Island States (SIS) Leaders meeting; the Pacific-African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) leaders meeting; PIF Formal Session; Forum Leaders Retreat and Post-Forum Dialogue Partners Meeting.
On the other priority issue of climate change, Forum Leaders are to discuss the mid-...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 August 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a new High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability tasked with finding ways to lift people out of poverty while tackling climate change and ensuring environmentally-friendly economic development.
The Panel will comprise 21 representatives from government, the private sector and civil society, and will be co-chaired by Finland’s President Tarja Halonen and South African President Jacob Zuma. In a press conference held at UN Headquarters...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 August 2010: The fifth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network was organized around the theme “Enhancing the Implementation of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action through a Multi-stakeholder Approach.”
The meeting, which took place from 9-13 August 2010, in Suva, Fiji, aimed to: review the outcomes of regional and global meetings that are of key relevance to disaster risk management (DRM) in the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 September 2010: The Director of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States Observatory on Migration, Laurent de Boeck, stated that improved management of South-South migration can contribute positively to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
De Boeck pointed out that migration flows both between and within developing countries are driven by a variety of motivations, including the search for job opportunities, family reunification, the impact of conflicts and natural...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 October 2010: The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Observatory on Migration, a joint initiative of the European Commission and the ACP countries, was launched officially at a special ceremony in Brussels, Belgium, held on 25 October 2010.
The Observatory is intended to provide reliable data on migration flows in ACP countries, with climate change as one of its key research topics. The Observatory will be run by the International Migration Organization (IOM) and and a consortium of 15...
