UNDESA
10 Dec 2011
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2011: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Division for Sustainable Development, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit has released the February 2011 edition of SIDS Newsletter. The newsletter provides a summary of key messages presented by Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio 2012), to a plenary meeting of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) on 21 January 2011.
Thompson suggested...
10 Dec 2011
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
28 February 2011: Addressing the opening session of the week-long Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the Commission on Sustainable Development’s (CSD) 19th session, Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, underscored that the effects of the global energy crisis, the ongoing food crisis, freshwater scarcity and the “overwhelming impact” of climate change continue to be challenges.
László Borbély (Romania), CSD 19 Chair, warned that the recovery...
10 Dec 2011
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
4 March 2011: The Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the 19th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 19) took place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, from 28 February-4 March 2011.
The IPM’s role in the lead up to CSD 19 was to provide a forum to discuss policy options and possible actions to enable the implementation of measures and policies concerning the thematic issues under consideration during the CSD 18/CSD 19 (2010-2011) two year “implementation cycle...
10 Dec 2011
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
6 April 2011: The Steering Committee of the Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA) met from 22-23 February 2011, in Washington, DC, and has issued the report of its meeting.
The Steering Committee is co-chaired by the Presidents of Seychelles and Palau and comprised of representatives from the Governments of Grenada, Seychelles and Italy, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological...
10 Dec 2011
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
4 May 2011: A “soft launch” of the revitalization of the Small Island Developing States Network (SIDSnet) took place on 4 May 2011, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, in an event hosted by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), along with the University Consortium of Small Island States (UCSIS) and Global Island Partnership (GLISPA). Speakers also highlighted and encouraged SIDS’ preparations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20)....
