UNFCCC
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...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 April 2011: Speaking at the conclusion of the first meeting of the Green Climate Fund’s Transitional Committee in Mexico City, Mexico, Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, observed that a well-designed Green Climate Fund will help to ensure a low-carbon future that is sustainable and profitable.
The Transitional Committee is composed of seven members from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean respectively, two members from both small island developing States (...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 June 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the provisional agenda of the upcoming 34th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 34), which will take place from 6-16 June 2011, in Bonn, Germany.
The addendum (FCCC/SBSTA/2011/1/Add.1) to the provisional agenda follows requests from Algeria, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia to include items on the provisional SBSTA agenda. Algeria and Saudi Arabia requested the inclusion of carbon dioxide capture and...
