Knowledge Management
12 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 April 2013: The fourth informal meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to define the format and organizational aspects of the high-level political forum (HLPF) took place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 11 April 2013.
Opening the meeting, Co-facilitator Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Permanent Representative of Italy, recalled that during the previous informal, held on 21 March 2013, delegations had registered preliminary views on a list of proposed non-exhaustive elements on the format...
11 Apr 2013
A special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will take place on 22 April 2013. The overall theme of the meeting is “Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of financing for development and the post-2015 development agenda”. The event will include: a high-level interactive panel discussion with Ministers of Finance and...
10 Apr 2013
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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...
09 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 April 2013: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced Daniel Namosuaia, of the Solomon Star newspaper, as the 2012 winner of the Vision Pasifika Award, on the theme “Clean Pacific,” in the framework of the Pacific campaign addressing waste management issues in the region.
Namosuaia won the Award for his story “Wastes of our City,” which highlights issues and solutions with waste management practices in Honiara. A special...
03 Apr 2013
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is organizing the Second Meeting of the Signatory Countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will convene in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 16-17 April 2013. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and adopt the Plan of Action to 2014 for the formulation of an instrument on the application of Principle 10 in Latin...
