UNFCCC
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 April 2011: The first part of the 14th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 14) and the 16th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 16) have opened in Bangkok, Thailand.
The second part of these sessions will take place in Bonn, Germany, from 6-17 June 2011. AWG-LCA 14 will address: the global goal; the Adaptation Committee; monitoring, reporting and...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 April 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has informed parties to the CBD and to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that the GEF is making available expanded and expedited access to funding for enabling activities, including national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and national reports under the CBD and the Biosafety Protocol.
According to the GEF communication, GEF will assist GEF-eligible parties in meeting their reporting obligations under the CBD and the UN...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 April 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently approved a project to integrate climate change risks and resilience into forestry management in Samoa, thus contributing to food security, increased yields and crop variety, and health benefits.
The project will cover approximately 10,000 hectares of native forest areas, and at least 20,000 hectares of lowland agroforestry areas and will be funded by US$2.6 million from the Kyoto Protocol’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 April 2011: Parties to the UNFCCC have selected the 40 members of the Transitional Committee that will be in charge of designing the Green Climate Fund, the new institution agreed upon in Cancun that will manage long-term finance mobilized to enable developing countries to address climate change.
The Transitional Committee will prepare operational specifications for the Fund in time for approval by the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UNFCCC in Durban, South...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 April 2011: Opening the first meeting of the Transitional Committee for the design of the Green Climate Fund, Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, highlighted the Committee’s task “to propose a design that will make the Green Climate Fund the window into a new era of vastly greater financing for climate action in the developing world.”
She recalled that the Committee is composed of seven members from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean...
