Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

UN Prepares for 2014 SIDS Conference
10 Apr 2013 | SIDS Policy and Practice
9 April 2013: Preparations for the 2014 International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are underway, beginning with a planning mission led by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to Apia, Samoa, where the Conference will take place. To support SIDS youth participation in the Conference, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a youth network, called “My World, My...
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UNFCCC Reports on Capacity Building Activities in Developing Countries
04 Apr 2013 | SIDS Policy and Practice
28 March 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released a report to support the Subsidiary Body for Implementation’s (SBI) annual monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the framework for capacity-building in developing countries. The report features sections on, inter alia: the overview of information reported by parties; capacity building activities under the Kyoto Protocol; and capacity building activities undertaken by UN organizations and other institutions. It contains...
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FCPF Carbon Fund and Participants Committee Meetings Discuss REDD+ Activities
02 Apr 2013 | SIDS Policy and Practice
27 March 2013: Two recent meetings of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), its Sixth Meeting of the Carbon Fund Participants (CF6, 15-16 March) and its 14th Meeting of the Participants Committee (PC14, 19-21 March 2013), have discussed updates on emissions reductions programmes and considered presentations on REDD+ readiness from a number of countries. The CF6 heard presentations from Ethiopia, the Republic of the Congo, Viet Nam, as well as a resolution on support for Costa Rica....
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UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies June 2013
02 Apr 2013
The UNFCCC subsidiary bodies will meet from 3-14 June 2013. SBI 38 and SBSTA 38 will convene. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/unfccc-subsidiary-bodies/ ]
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33rd Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
02 Apr 2013
This meeting will consider issues related to the implementation of the Montreal Protocol in preparation for the 25th Meeting of the Parties (MOP25) scheduled to convene in November 2013. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/33rd-meeting-of-the-open-ended-working-group-of-the-parties-to-the-montreal-protocol/ ]
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