EU
10 Feb 2012
The Energy Center of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, is organizing a short course on Energy Policy and Planning in cooperation with the World Bank, the International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering - 2iE, the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) - European Union (EU) Cooperation...
24 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has issued the first fact sheet in a series titled “Building MEA Capacity for Pacific Island Countries.” The document is part of an EU project on “Capacity Building Related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries”.
The fact sheet describes pre-Conference of the Parties (COP) trainings conducted by SPREP for Pacific Island Countries (PICs)...
23 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 January 2012: The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has published a report titled ”The Global Bioenergy Partnership Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy,” which represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy. Publication of the report was announced at the opening of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and the launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The report introduces 24...
17 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
December 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission have released the latest issue of the newsletter on the Multilateral Environment Agreements in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP MEAs) Project. The newsletter features a guest article by Bakary Kante, Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, UNEP, outlining the progress of the ACP MEAs Project, over the past two and one-half years.
The newsletter also contains information on recently completed...
16 Jan 2012
The eighth Regular Session of the Commission (WCPFC8) will take place in December. The meetings of its Northern, Scientific and Technical and Compliance Committees will take place prior to the session. The members of the Commission are: Australia, China, Canada, Cook Islands, the EU, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, France, Japan, Kiribati, Korea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Chinese Taipei, Tonga...
