UNFCCC
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 August 2010: The 11th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 11) and the 13th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 13) took place from 2-6 August 2010, in Bonn, Germany, bringing together over 1650 participants.
The AWG-LCA considered a text circulated by the Group’s Chair in July 2010 (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/8). The text was intended to facilitate negotiations in...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 October 2010: The 14th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 14) and the 12th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 12) convened in Tianjin, China, from 4-9 October 2010.
The AWG-LCA considered the negotiating text circulated in August 2010 (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/14), which encompasses key aspects of the Bali Action Plan (BAP) (decision 1/CP.13), namely a shared...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 November 2010: The report from the October meeting of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Small-Scale Working Group (SSC WG) is now available on the CDM website.
The SSC WG held its 28th meeting from 19-22 October 2010, in Bonn, Germany, to consider matters relating to small-scale CDM projects. The SSC WG considered requests for revisions to, or clarifications of, approved small-scale methodologies, as well as for the creation of new methodologies. In addition, the Group developed and...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has held a regional training workshop on 26-28 October 2010 in Singapore on preparing technology transfer projects for financing.
Participants, which included representatives from Fiji, Maldives, Singapore, Palau, Solomon Islands and Samoa, were trained in preparing project proposals for financing, with special attention to risk management and financial structuring. The training was based on material in the UNFCCC guidebook on preparing technology transfer...
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
