Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
08 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 May 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released a miscellaneous document containing the views of eight parties and one NGO on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) issues referred to in Decision 2/CMP.7, paragraphs 5-7 (FCCC/SBSTA/2013/MISC.8).
Parties that presented submissions are: Chad, for Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé e Príncipe; Indonesia; Japan; New Zealand;...
01 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2013: The “Asia and the Pacific Parliamentarian and Civil Society Organization (CSO) Forum on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Acceleration and the Post-2015 Development Agenda” resulted in a Bali Declaration on accelerating the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda. It asserts that the post-2015 framework should be based on: human rights, democracy and good governance; equality and non-discrimination; sustainable development; and quality public service delivery.
The meeting,...
25 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2013: The Asia-Pacific Regional Centre (APRC) of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a report. titled “Climate Change and Pacific Island Countries,” on climate impacts and proposed responses.
The report is issued as part of a series of Asia-Pacific Human Development Report technical background papers. It indicates that within the last century, temperatures have risen by 0.6%, and sea levels have risen by 17 cm in the Pacific region, resulting in widespread coastal flooding and...
Steven Goldfinch
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24 Apr 2013
Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and the Pacific Climate Change Round Table
Date: 08-12 Jul 2013
Location: Fiji (Nadi)
Main organizer
•Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SOPAC)
•Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
•United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific (UNISDR - Pacific)
Main host
•Fiji - government
Description
The joint meeting will look to progress discussions on the...
17 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 April 2013: Ministers and senior officials from over a dozen donor countries met in Washington, DC, US, on 10-11 April 2013, to discuss ways to meet the challenge of scaling up climate finance and low-carbon investment in developing countries.
The meeting, which was convened and chaired by the US, was attented by representatives from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the UK and the US, as well as from development...
