Knowledge Management
13 Feb 2013
The Basel Convention Regional Coordinating Centre - Caribbean (BCRC), together with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is hosting this workshop to enhance implementation of the Stockholm Convention in the Caribbean Region. The workshop will identify priority areas for support in chemical and waste management as they apply to the production, phasing out and elimination of intentional/unintentional Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs/UPOPs) in the region. [ for more information: http://sids-l...
11 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 February 2013: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has announced it is implementing an EU-funded project, titled “Improving Key Services to Agriculture Fiji,” to cushion the economic and social impacts of restructuring Fiji’s sugar sector. SPC will assist sugar farmers in employing land that is currently under-utilized.
According to SPC, the project will provide improved access to agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, seeds and assistance with land preparation, as...
09 Feb 2013
Organized by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), this meeting is for representatives of the Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The meeting will bring together GEF focal points, focal points from the main Conventions (Biodiversity, Desertification, Climate Change and POPs), representatives from civil society and representatives from the GEF...
09 Feb 2013
Informal consultations on small island developing States (SIDS) will take place on 5-6 March 2013, in Bogota, Colombia, preceding the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM). [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/informal-consultations-on-sids/ ]
08 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2013: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Global Mechanism (GM) has launched a revamped web-based platform titled “Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – Finance.” The site will support the exchange of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, many of which are also small island developing States (SIDS).
The platform, which is part of the EU-funded Scope|ACP project, a South...
