UNISDR
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean met from 27 January-1 February 2008, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The meeting was organized by the Government of the Dominican Republic through the State Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP/ROLAC), in its capacity of Secretariat of the Forum. A Preparatory Meeting of High...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
An international seminar entitled “Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks, tools and practices,” which primarily focused on developing countries and small island developing States (SIDS), was held from 9-11 April 2008 in Oxford, the UK.
The event was jointly organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxford University’s Centre for the Environment and the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and brought together some 30 high-level tourism and...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), at its 63rd session on 24 November 2008, approved by consensus a draft resolution calling for urgent global action to address climate change.
In the draft resolution, the UNGA would, inter alia, stress the seriousness of climate change, call for full implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and recognize the need to provide financial and technical resources.
The Second Committee...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 August 2010: The fifth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network was organized around the theme “Enhancing the Implementation of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action through a Multi-stakeholder Approach.”
The meeting, which took place from 9-13 August 2010, in Suva, Fiji, aimed to: review the outcomes of regional and global meetings that are of key relevance to disaster risk management (DRM) in the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 October 2010: The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) marked International Day for Disaster Reduction on 13 October, under the theme “My City is Getting Ready!”
UN/ISDR called on all world leaders, policy makers, chief executive officers, civil society, international financial institutions and donors to join mayors and citizens to make their cities safer against disasters, as part of the organizations Making Cities Resilient Campaign.
In a message marking ...
