UNFCCC
19 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The 43rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council adopted a Work Program that amounts to US$174 million and aims to benefit 63 countries.
The Council convened in Washington, DC, US, from 13-15 November 2012, at International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters. Representatives of governments, international organizations and civil society organizations (CSOs) attended the three-day meeting, which also included the 13th meeting of the Council for the Least Developed...
09 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 November 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the report on the workshops on the work programme on long-term finance (FCCC/CP/2012/3). The report includes information on the workshops and the web-based activities undertaken in the context of the work programme on long-term finance in 2012.
The report provides recommendations that may contribute to the ongoing effort to scale up the mobilization of financial resources from a broad range of sources, including public and private, bilateral...
08 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 October 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the workshop report on the process and requirements for the accreditation of national implementing entities (NIEs) for direct access under the Adaptation Fund (AF) to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP)(FCCC/KP/CMP/2012/10).
The report contains information on the four workshops on NIE process and requirements held in 2011 and 2012 for the African, Latin American and the Caribbean...
22 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 October 2012: During its second meeting, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) selected Songdo, Incheon City, Republic of Korea, as the host city of the Fund.
Six countries had submitted bids to host the GCF, and were thanked by the Board for submitting their offers. The selection was adopted by consensus following a confidential balloting process during the 18-20 October 2012 Board meeting, which took place in Songdo, Incheon City, Republic of Korea. Additional agenda items included:...
11 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 October 2012: Delivering a lecture titled “Is anything being done on climate change?” at the Central Bank of Barbados in Bridgetown, Barbados, Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, conveyed three messages, namely that: climate change is happening; the world is doing something about it, “not enough, but we are walking in the right direction;” and much more can be done at the national level.
Figueres underscored that current climate modelling has underestimated both the...
