UNITAR
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The 15th South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Meeting of Officials met from 13-16 September, and the fifth SPREP Environment Ministers’ Meeting met on 17 September in Pape’ete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
The meetings endorsed a new strategic approach for the regional intergovernmental organization for the period 2005-2009, departing from its previous organizational arrangement of having five key result areas and establishing two new long-term strategic programmes – the Island...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
UNESCO has undertaken a series of regional workshops to build capacity related to World Heritage Sites.
One workshop, held from 9-10 March 2006, in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on the management of Natural World Heritage sites in Africa. Participants adopted recommendations related to the better representation and effective management of the World Natural Heritage sites in Africa, and recognized the need for effective legal and institutional frameworks, a cross-sectoral approach at the national...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The UN General Assembly has adopted a broad resolution on strengthening the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
In addition to recognizing the need for a more efficient ECOSOC as a principal body for coordination, policy review and recommendations on economic and social development issues, the resolution also recalls ECOSOC’s role in overseeing system-wide coordination of economic, social and environmental aspects of UN policies and programmes aimed at promoting sustainable development. The...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met on 30 November 2007 to take action on four draft resolutions, calling on governments and stakeholders to take action on several climate change and sustainable development-related issues.
The resolutions included: Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (A/C.2/62/L.40); Follow-up to and implementation of the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee (Economic and Financial) convened a debate on sustainable development from 29-30 October 2007, at UN headquarters in New York, US.
Among the speakers, John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, expressed pessimism about the chances of reducing disaster-related losses by 2015, emphasizing the importance of implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action. Several speakers noted the need to help...
