UNDP
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 November 2010: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released the 20th anniversary edition of its annual flagship publication, the Human Development Report (HDR). The report is titled, “The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development.”
The report was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. It focuses on long-term development trends and indicates that, although inequalities within and between...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2010: The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has launched a new online helpdesk as part of its support to the regional project “Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change” (PACC).
The Online Helpdesk for PACC seeks to provide immediate communication access to key project staff for the 13 PACC participating countries, with a view to responding to immediate requests for information and assistance. Information available upon request ranges from technical aspects of the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 October 2010: The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) organized a Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Regional Meeting on Operational and Financial Requirements from 4-8 October 2010 in Apia, Samoa. The meeting addressed operational and financial planning and reporting requirements in the framework of the regional project “Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change” (PACC).
Each country participating in PACC was invited to nominate one...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2010: The fifth UN-REDD Policy Board meeting, which took place in Washington DC, US, from 4-5 November 2010, approved US$15.2 million for five new countries, and confirmed or pledged funds of US$7.4 million.
Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay received approvals for US$3 million, $6.4 million and $4.7 million, respectively, after having presented the Board with full national REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 November 2010: The World Bank and the UN have released a joint report titled “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention,” which analyzes disasters from an economics perspective.
The report stresses the need for prevention to reduce countries’ vulnerability to natural hazards in order to enable their sustainable and cost-effective development. It outlines a number of measures to prevent death and destruction from natural hazards such as...
