Coastal and Marine Resources
28 Jan 2013
The Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (Informal Working Group on Marine Biodiversity) will meet in August 2013, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/ad-hoc-open-ended-informal-working-group-to-study-issues-relating-to-the-conservation-and-sustainable-use-of-marine-biological-diversity-beyond-areas-of-...
25 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) have developed the Water Learning Centre (WLC), an e-Learning programme to enhance national capacities to develop and implement sustainable natural resource management strategies at local, regional, sub-regional and basin scales.
The programme aims to build the capacity of developing country water sector personnel on topics such as climate change...
22 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 January 2013: The UN Office for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States (GCC) co-hosted a regional workshop on disaster risk reduction (DRR), which heard calls for stronger commitments in the Gulf region towards the development of a DRR strategy.
At the workshop, titled “Reducing and managing disaster risk and implementing the Hyogo For Action (HFA),” which took place from 13-16 January 2013, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, GCC Secretary-General ...
17 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 January 2013: The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) has reported on an upcoming mangrove rehabilitation and replanting project in two of the Marshall Islands’ wetlands of international importance, Namdrik and Jaluit Atolls.
According to the Ramsar Secretariat, the project aims to: increase community resilience to climate change on both atolls through restoring some of the existing degraded...
16 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
December 2012: The December 2012 edition of “the greenline,” the newsletter of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), notes the successes of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as an efficient tool to achieve the Aichi target 11 on the conservation of coastal and marine areas.
The Aichi targets were agreed by 193 parties in 2010 during the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Target 11 states that, by 2020, 10% of...
