Caribbean
06 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 December 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Risø Centre (URC) has published its December newsletter, featuring stories on its Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project and electrification in Africa. It also spotlights initiatives and progress on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), including support by both the Africa Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) Partnership and UNEP Risø’s Green Facility, capacity building in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region and loan schemes.
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06 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 December 2012: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is providing Suriname a US$15 million Policy Based Programmatic (PBP) loan to reform its power sector and its governance, increase the efficiency of current plants, diversify its energy mix with renewable energy sources and improve power supplies to remote areas.
One component of the loan will focus on an integrated policy and regulatory framework to govern Suriname’s energy sector, starting with a diagnostic “Green Paper...
06 Dec 2012
The inaugural workshop of the Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) Project will serve as its first stakeholder consultation, bringing together managers, technical personnel and policy makers from 25 national, intergovernmental and regional entities to discuss how CARIWIG can best serve the Caribbean's water, agriculture and coastal resource sectors through reliable access to unbiased, locally-relevant climate change information in a manner that complements their planning cycles. Funded by...
04 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 December 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) launched the UN Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The Alliance...
04 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 December 2012: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has granted the first Land For Life Award to civil society organizations from Haiti, Turkey and Uganda for their innovative work combating land degradation. UNCCD recognized the three winners at a Recognition Gala event, which included ministers from their respective countries, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar.
Sustainable Organic Integrated Lifelihoods (SOIL), from Haiti, won the first prize of US$40,000...
