Coastal and Marine Resources
07 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 December 2012: Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), announced launch of the Forum on Innovation and Partnership on the sidelines of the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The initiative aims to foster “thought provoking” discussion on creative innovation and technology transfer.
The Forum will organize five high-level dialogues aiming at bringing together...
07 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 November 2012: The UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) Second Committee (Economic and Financial) has approved draft resolution A/C.2/67/L.41 on “Towards the sustainable development of the Caribbean Sea for present and future generations.” The resolution falls under the agenda item on follow-up to and implementation to the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation (MSI) of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Recognizing the...
06 Dec 2012
The inaugural workshop of the Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) Project will serve as its first stakeholder consultation, bringing together managers, technical personnel and policy makers from 25 national, intergovernmental and regional entities to discuss how CARIWIG can best serve the Caribbean's water, agriculture and coastal resource sectors through reliable access to unbiased, locally-relevant climate change information in a manner that complements their planning cycles. Funded by...
04 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 December 2012: The December 2012 issue of the Micronesia Challenge Newsletter, published by the Micronesia Challenge Secretariat, provides a round-up of the key developments in each of the 11 prior monthly issues of the newsletter.
For January 2012, the round-up spotlights the handover by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) of US$1 million to Palau. For February, it notes a climate change workshop held in Chunk. For March, it looks at four “Young Champions” in Palau and Guam.
The April...
04 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
12 November 2012: The UN Secretary-General’s 2012 Report on Oceans and the Law of the Sea and the Secretary-General’s new Oceans Compact were the subjects of a briefing held on 12 November 2012, in New York, US. The briefing was hosted by Achim Steiner, Chair of the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs.
The Secretary-General’s report covers UN...
