Biodiversity
Beth
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26 Jul 2011
A National Environment Management Plan was developed in 2004 to oversee the socio-economic development and environmental preservation of Guinea-Bissau. It has established a National Department for the Environment and Sustainable Development, which in the future will have the capacity to develop a National Strategic Action Plan (NSAP). Guinea-Bissau has also ratified the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and following this an Institute for Biodiversity and Protection Areas was established...
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
The Comoros has not yet developed a dedicated National Plan for Sustainable Development, but it has instituted a Commission to pursue such a plan. It has also developed various national polices on several socio-economic and environmental sectors to guide sustainable development and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy. These include the National Policy on Environment and National Action Plan on the Environment, National Development Strategy on Statistics, a National Strategy for Growth and...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
Fiji has submitted its Fourth National Report to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and also has a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.
Fiji is a natural resource-based economy that thrives on the exploitation of natural resources for its economic development. Land- and marine-based natural resources have been harvested for exports to improve Fiji’s foreign reserves for national economic development. There are drawbacks associated with all of these activities. Habitat...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
In 2009, Samoa submitted its fourth report to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Policies and legislations have also been developed and formulated such as the National Biodiversity Policy (NBP), National Deforestation Policy (NDP) and the National Heritage Policy (NHP) which were all approved in 2005. Samoa also has a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, a review of which was carried out in 2007.
Samoa’s terrestrial resources form an important cornerstone of the nations...
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
