UNFCCC
20 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 June 20120: The Rio Conventions Pavilion at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) focused on the theme of Ecosystem-based Adaptation. Four panels addressed: ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation; economic valuation of land (EVL); the Bonn Challenges; and coastal climate change solutions.
The panel on ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation considered the value of ecosystem-based adaptation, implementation and decision support tools to move from principles to...
12 Jun 2012
The Rio Conventions Pavilion at Rio+20 is a collaborative outreach activity of the Secretariats of the Rio Conventions (UNFCCC, UNCCD and CBD), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and 25 other international, national and local partners. It aims to promote and strengthen synergies between the Rio Conventions at implementation levels by providing a coordinated platform for awareness-raising and information-sharing about the linkages in science, policy and practice between biodiversity, climate...
06 Jun 2012
This meeting will include sessions of: the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP); the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA); and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). These sessions will be preceded by preparatory meetings of the Group of 77 and China, the African States, the small island developing States (SIDS), and the least developed countries (LDCs...
25 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 May 2012: The Workshop on increasing the level of ambition under paragraph 8 of decision 1/CP.17 aimed to consider options and ways for increasing ambition and possible further actions to bridge the gap between the sum of current pledges to curb emissions and what is required by 2020 to limit global average temperature increase to 2ºC.
At its 17th session, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC decided to hold an in-session workshop on increasing the level of ambition at the first...
23 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 May 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the joint submission from Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and Sao Tome and Principe, which contains their views on modalities and procedures for financing results-based actions and considering activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68-70 and 72 (FCCC/AWGLCA/2012/MISC.3/Add.2).
The submission is made under the agenda item of the Ad...
