Biodiversity
17 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 January 2013: The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) has reported on an upcoming mangrove rehabilitation and replanting project in two of the Marshall Islands’ wetlands of international importance, Namdrik and Jaluit Atolls.
According to the Ramsar Secretariat, the project aims to: increase community resilience to climate change on both atolls through restoring some of the existing degraded...
16 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
December 2012: The December 2012 edition of “the greenline,” the newsletter of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), notes the successes of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as an efficient tool to achieve the Aichi target 11 on the conservation of coastal and marine areas.
The Aichi targets were agreed by 193 parties in 2010 during the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Target 11 states that, by 2020, 10% of...
16 Jan 2013
In addition to the ITTC 49 meeting, the session will include meetings of the committees on finance and administration, economic information and market intelligence, forest industry, and reforestation and forest management. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/49th-session-of-the-international-tropical-timber-council-and-associated-sessions-of-the-committees/ ]
10 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: Panama and Mauritius have become the 10th and 11th countries respectively to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Panama ratified the Protocol on 12 December and Mauritius on 17 December of 2012. Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Mexico, Rwanda and the Seychelles have already ratified. The Nagoya Protocol will...
09 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 January, 2013: The Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has launched a series of stakeholder consultations in the Solomon Islands aiming to build partnerships and community leadership in the development of sustainable AAS.
Co-organized by WorldFish, a research centre of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and the International Centre for Development Orientated...
