Knowledge Management
30 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 March 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions from two intergovernmental organizations and 19 Parties containing their views on options and ways for further increasing the level of ambition.
At its 17th session, the Conference of the Parties (COP) requested Parties and observer organizations to submit, by 28 February 2012, their views on options and ways for further increasing the level of ambition (decision 1/CP.17, para. 8). The submissions from intergovernmental...
30 Mar 2012
This meeting is scheduled to be the final of five Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meetings to negotiate a legally binding instrument on mercury. The meeting will take place sometime between 12-20 January 2013, with the final decision to be reached by the Bureau. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/fifth-session-of-the-inc-to-prepare-a-legally-binding-instrument-on-mercury/ ]
29 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 March 2012: The UN-REDD Programme has launched its “2011 Year in Review” report, which provides an overview of the Programme’s achievements at the national and international levels on activities related to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+).
The report highlights the approval of new National Programmes in Ecuador and Nigeria...
28 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 March 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), through the Union des Femmes Francophones d’Océanie (Union of Francophone Pacific Women), which includes French-speaking women organizations from French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, convened a meeting to discuss women’s civil rights within the framework of customary and common law, in Noumea, New Caledonia.
According to SPC, people from one of the eight Kanak nations in New Caledonia have their...
27 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 March 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) commemorated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on 24 March, under the theme of “Stop TB in my lifetime.” In the Pacific, 16,107 TB cases were diagnosed in 2010, 14,531 in Papua New Guinea and 1,576 in other Pacific Islands countries (PICs).
According to SPC, despite good treatment success rates, TB continues to burden PICs. World TB Day 2012 calls for a world free of TB and encourages community advocating for better vaccines, more...
