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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 March 2010: The Caribbean Regional meeting for the Five Year Review of the Mauritius Strategy for the further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (MSI+5) convened in St. George’s, Grenada, on 16 and 18 March 2010.
The event was hosted by the Government of Grenada, and was jointly organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UN Department of Economic and...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 May 2010: On 10 May 2010, delegates at the 18th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 18) considered the CSD 18 thematic topics as they relate to small island developing States (SIDS) and conducted a review of the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Implementation (MSI) of the Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS (PrepCom for MSI+5).
Delegates’ discussions were guided by the Secretary-General’s report on the Review of the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 April 2010: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has published a document (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.2) including additional views on which the Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) may draw on in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among parties. The document includes 18 submissions from parties.
The 18 submissions are from: Argentina; Belarus; Bolivia; Botswana; Egypt; Ghana; Grenada, on behalf of the Alliance of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 July 2010: The Maldives hosted the second meeting of the ‘Cartagena Group/Dialogue for Progressive Action’ on 17-18 July 2010, at Bandos Island resort, near Male, as an informal space open to all countries committed to reaching an ambitious outcome through the UNFCCC negotiations, and to becoming or remaining low-carbon.
In a keynote speech, Maldives President Nasheed stressed that re-establishing confidence “must start in Cancun by reaching agreement across all core issues, especially the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
July 2010: In order to strengthen support to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in their work on climate change in the lead up to the negotiations in Cancun and beyond, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has committed US$5.6 million toward a programme on “Strategic Investment in Addressing Climate Change in LDCs.”
The purpose of the programme is to strengthen the programmatic capacity in the area of climate change of select LDCs through the provision of focused expertise at the...
