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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 September 2010: The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have launched a project to further identify gaps, obstacles and opportunities in forest financing in small island developing States (SIDS) and low forest cover countries (LFCCs).
The project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It follows up on the SIDS/LFCC project launched in 2009 as part of the facilitative process to assist countries to mobilize funding from all sources. Drafts of studies...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The Government of Australia has reported on a project with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to reduce the national reporting burden in Pacific Island countries for biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). A consolidated reporting template for five of the biodiversity-related MEAs has been developed and trialled.
The simplified reporting process covers the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 October 2010: The Japan-UN Development Programme (UNDP) Partnership Fund approved a project titled “Promoting Regional REDD+ Approach and REDD+ Readiness in Under-Supported Regions of Asia/Pacific.”
The project, which is being applied by the UN-REDD Programme’s Asia-Pacific team, aims to harmonize REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon...
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
10 November 2010: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, held a Regional Skills Training Workshop targeting the next generation of regional environmental negotiators.
The workshop was part of a capacity-building programme funded by the European Commission in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), to support African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) countries in implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) more effectively. It was organized by...
