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09 Jan 2013 | SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: Commonwealth education ministers have agreed on a set of core recommendations for a framework to succeed Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in education. Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries, including the education ministers from six, met in London, UK from 12-13 December 2012, to conclude their recommendations on the post-2015 development agenda for education. The Ministerial meeting was chaired by the Minister of Education and Human...
09 Jan 2013
The 37th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 37) will consider for approval two methodology reports: the "2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands”; and the good practice guidance on estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/ipcc-37/ ]
09 Jan 2013
The 12th session of WG I for endorsement of AR5 will be held in September 2013. Subsequently, the 36th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 36) will convene to consider the WGI contribution to AR5. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/12th-session-of-wg-i-and-ipcc-36/ ]
07 Jan 2013 | SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on “Promotion of ecotourism for poverty eradication and environment protection.” By the text (A/67/441), adopted on 21 December 2012, the Assembly calls for optimizing ecotourism’s benefits particularly in African countries, the least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS). The Assembly recognizes ecotourism as creating opportunities to conserve, protect and sustainably use biodiversity and...
21 Dec 2012
At its eighteenth meeting, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is expected to address, among others, issues related to marine and coastal biodiversity, biodiversity and climate change, and the relationship with IPBES. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/cbd-sbstta-18/ ]