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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 October 2010: The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Observatory on Migration, a joint initiative of the European Commission and the ACP countries, was launched officially at a special ceremony in Brussels, Belgium, held on 25 October 2010.
The Observatory is intended to provide reliable data on migration flows in ACP countries, with climate change as one of its key research topics. The Observatory will be run by the International Migration Organization (IOM) and and a consortium of 15...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 November 2010: The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) began its consideration of sustainable development on 1 November in New York, U.S.
Before the Committee were the following documents: the report of the Secretary-General on the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI) (document A/65/115); a letter dated 9 September 2010...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has held a regional training workshop on 26-28 October 2010 in Singapore on preparing technology transfer projects for financing.
Participants, which included representatives from Fiji, Maldives, Singapore, Palau, Solomon Islands and Samoa, were trained in preparing project proposals for financing, with special attention to risk management and financial structuring. The training was based on material in the UNFCCC guidebook on preparing technology transfer...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 November 2010: The Tarawa Climate Change Conference (TCCC), which met from 9-11 November 2010 in Tarawa, Kiribati, as a session of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, concluded with the release of the Ambo Declaration.
The Conference brought together selected representatives from the key negotiating groups within the UNFCCC process to attend a one-day high level conference on climate change. In the Ambo Declaration, ministers and government representatives participating in the Conference: express...
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02 Nov 2011
Small island developing States are renowned for their species diversity and endemism. However, due to the small size, isolation and fragility of island ecosystems, their biological diversity is among the most threatened in the world. Deforestation, coral reef deterioration, habitat degradation and loss, and the introduction of certain non-indigenous species are the most significant causes of the loss of biodiversity in small island developing States. Some of the most precious biological...
