Biodiversity
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...
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
