UNITAR
14 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
2 May 2012: The Dominican Republic’s National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) held a policy briefing to agree on the process for preparing and launching a national strategy to strengthen human resources and skills to advance green, low-emission and climate-resilient development. The strategy process is scheduled to be launched in July 2012.
The policy briefing, which was held on 2 May 2012, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, provided an opportunity to...
10 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 April 2012: The Dominican Republic held a workshop on “Developing Results-based Action to Strengthen Human Resources, Learning and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development,” which was organized within the framework of the UN CC:Learn Project on “Strengthening Human Resources and Skills to Address Climate Change.”
The workshop was held from 24-25 April 2012, in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, with the aim to identify priority actions in the Dominican Republic to...
10 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 March 2012: The Second Global Transition 2012 Dialogue on the New Economy focused on a number of issues related to the green economy during a weekend event on the sidelines of negotiations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
The event was held from 17-18 March 2012 in New York, US. It was co-organized by Stakeholder Forum, the new economics foundation (nef), the New Economics Institute, and the Green Economy Coalition, in collaboration with other...
03 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 March 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions from Parties and relevant organizations containing their views on the review of the implementation of the amended New Delhi work programme and on possible elements of a successor work programme on Article 6 of the Convention (education, training and public awareness) (FCCC/SBI/2012/MISC.4).
The Secretariat has received submissions from the following six Parties: Denmark and the European Commission, on behalf of the EU; the...
21 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 March 2012: The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project in Vanuatu is in the design phase of relocating parts of roads on Epi Island as an adaptation measure to sea level rise.
PACC notes that about 40% of the current roads are located next to the high water mark, which include the Lamen Bay airstrip. The project will relocate the current roads to safer ground and address drainage systems to allow for run-off during heavy rainfall and sedimentation ponds to limit sedimentation....
