UNESCO
10 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 April 2013: Preparations for the 2014 International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are underway, beginning with a planning mission led by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to Apia, Samoa, where the Conference will take place.
To support SIDS youth participation in the Conference, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a youth network, called “My World, My...
16 Mar 2013
The Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is providing support for two sub-regional consultation meetings, with the aim of making advances in the preparation of the final monitoring and evaluation report of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). The meetings will contribute to the creation of a new global framework defining follow-up activities for the Decade, and...
09 Mar 2013
The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) will hold its 28th General Meeting (GM28) in Belize. Launched at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 1) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1994, ICRI brings together governments, the CBD and the Ramsar Convention Secretariats, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), development banks such as the World Bank, regional organizations such as the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), and...
08 Mar 2013
Organized by the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis and the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere Programme, this meeting will convene under the theme "Tools for Sustainable Development and Growth." The objective of the event is to facilitate discussions on the identification of appropriate locations for new biosphere reserves as well as their integration with local/national sustainable development and adaptation to climate change plans. [ for more...
01 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 February 2013: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced that La Selle, in Haiti, has been officially declared as Haiti’s first biosphere reserve.
According to UNESCO, the La Selle area includes a number of different ecosystems and protected areas including La Visite, one of the country’s most important biodiversity sites, and the forest reserve Forêt-des-pins, Haiti’s biggest pine reserve, which is dominated by the endemic pine species Pinus...
