Caribbean
Bill
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27 Sep 2012
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http://www.un.org/...
26 September 2012 – The United Nations is counting on the leadership and active engagement of Pacific island nations in tackling some of today’s pressing challenges, including achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), advancing sustainable development and promoting gender equality, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. “Now more than ever, we must work to align our priorities and objectives,” Mr. Ban said in his remarks to...
Bill
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07 Aug 2012
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http://www.thegef....
This regional project covers: Antigua & Barbuda, Belize, Grenada, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago. The project will build capacity to reduce GHG emissions in the commercial and residential buildings including appliances, demonstrate technologies to achieve reductions of 20% of GHG emissions and put in place policies or programs to roll out these technologies to the marketplace.
The project consists of six components:
1. Establish an Assessment and Monitoring System for Energy...
03 Apr 2013
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is organizing the Second Meeting of the Signatory Countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will convene in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 16-17 April 2013. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and adopt the Plan of Action to 2014 for the formulation of an instrument on the application of Principle 10 in Latin...
02 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 March 2013: Two recent meetings of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), its Sixth Meeting of the Carbon Fund Participants (CF6, 15-16 March) and its 14th Meeting of the Participants Committee (PC14, 19-21 March 2013), have discussed updates on emissions reductions programmes and considered presentations on REDD+ readiness from a number of countries.
The CF6 heard presentations from Ethiopia, the Republic of the Congo, Viet Nam, as well as a resolution on support for Costa Rica....
