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19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 March 2013: During a plenary meeting on 13 March 2013, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a draft resolution that changes the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council to the “United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP.”
During the plenary meeting, delegates considered a note by the UN Secretary-General (A/67/784), circulated under sub-item (g) of agenda item 20 (Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on its twelfth special...
12 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 March 2013: The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has announced that representatives of UN agencies, funds and programmes have agreed to the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Resilience. The Plan will accelerate the integration of DRR into all UN country-level operations.
According to UNISDR, the Plan brings multiple partners together to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action (HYA) and will help ensure cross-UN agency support for mainstreaming DRR. UNISDR...
05 Mar 2013
The Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will begin its work in a meeting to be convened in mid-March 2013, according to a 20 February letter from the UN General Assembly (UNGA) President: http://bit.ly/X1cwiC [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/substantive-meeting-of-open-working-group-on-sdgs/ ]
04 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 March 2013: UN Member States and Permanent Observers discussed further the format and organizational aspects of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF), in the second open-ended informal meeting convened by the two co-facilitators for the process, Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Permanent Representative of Italy, and Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Permanent Representative of Brazil. The meeting took place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 1 March 2013.
Viotti explained that, since the first open-...
04 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 February 2013: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, fulfilling a mandate from the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in resolution 67/203, has released an advance unedited version of a report titled ”Lessons Learned from the Commission on Sustainable Development” (CSD).
Prepared in consultation with UN Member States, Major Groups, and other stakeholders, the report identifies specific successes and shortcomings of the Commission, and is intended to inform the ongoing intergovernmental...
