Biodiversity
07 Jan 2013
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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...
07 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The World Ocean Assessment (WOA) Workshop for the Wider Caribbean met to discuss the state of assessments of the marine environment in the Wider Caribbean, and provide regional input to the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment. The Assessment is slated for publication in December 2014.
The workshop took place from 13-15 November 2012, in Miami, Florida, US. Hosted by the US State Department in cooperation with US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),...
21 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
We at IISD RS wish you all the best for this holiday season and throughout the coming year. We will resume publication of our knowledgebases on 7 January 2013. Thank you for your support during 2012.
The IISD RS Knowledge Management team
21 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 December 2012: The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) announced that Maldives has become the 177th Party to CITES.
Maldives are home to over 300 CITES species, including the whale shark, dugong, giant humphead wrasse, black seahorse, hawksbill turtle, Eurasian spoonbill, duck hawk and Indian flying-fox. CITES trade with Maldives consists mainly of raw corals.
The Convention will enter into force for Maldives on 12 March...
21 Dec 2012
The third meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is expected to address, among others, issues related to compliance, a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism, the ABS clearing-house, and monitoring and reporting, and will exchange views on the state of implementation of the Protocol, and on sectoral and cross-sectoral model contractual clauses, codes of conduct and guidelines...
