UNDESA
28 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
March 2013: The third issue of the Sustainable Development in Action newsletter features updates on the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in 2014 and the High-level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF).
On the SIDS conference, the newsletter highlights a new website launched by the Conference Secretariat. It also notes that SIDS leaders aim to make partnerships a cornerstone of the conference, and that a “SIDS in Action” registry has been...
13 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
12 February 2013: The Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) of the UN Department for Economic and Social Development (DESA) hosted an online panel discussion as part of its ongoing follow-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The event took place on Google+ Hangout and featured four UN and civil society experts: Nikhil Seth, DSD Director; Elizabeth Thompson, Rio+20 Executive Coordinator; Langson James “Kimo” Goree VI, International Institute for...
07 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 February 2013: The Natural Resources Forum, a UN Sustainable Development Journal, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on “Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS),” to be published in February 2014.
NRF is a quarterly journal published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), Division for Sustainable Development (DSD).
The issue will focus on possible policy responses to the vulnerability and development needs of SIDS....
07 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Task Team for the Post-2015 Development Agenda (UNTT), along with several UN agencies, has released two new thematic think pieces, describing the challenges of the current multilateral trading system, and offering recommendations for enhanced trade partnerships for more inclusive development in the post-2015 agenda.
Titled ”Trade and Development and the Global Partnership beyond 2015″ and “Trade in the Global Partnership for Development beyond 2015,...
25 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) has launched a section of its Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform on the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The page on the OWG - the establishment of which was recently agreed in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) - is part of a broader section on the SDGs and related resources.
The webpage includes information on: the UN System Technical Support Team (TST); the text from the UN Conference on...
