Science and Technology
12 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 April 2013: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has released the April 2013 edition of its Climate Change Matters newsletter, which features articles on: the Pacific Energy Summit; tide and sea level forecasting in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM); World Water Day Celebrations; the importance of addressing loss and damage; and Fiji’s climate change awareness raising efforts.
The newsletter reports that the island of Kosrae in FSM has recently...
12 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2013: In the context of reduced agriculture yields from deforested and increasingly eroded hillsides in Haiti, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is supporting a project to rehabilitate hillside rainfed agriculture and irrigated valley systems.
The Small-scale Irrigation Development Project aims to rehabilitate watersheds in the north-west, north-east and central departments of Haiti. The project is rehabilitating sloped land by developing terraces and planting...
12 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2013: The Central African Forests Commission (COMIFAC) convened the sixth meeting of the Working Group for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Central Africa (WGCCD) with participation from representatives of Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, and São Tomé e Príncipe.
The meeting was organized around the following items for discussion: the eleventh meeting of the Committee for the Review of the...
12 Apr 2013
MOP 25 is scheduled to consider a number of issues, including nominations for critical- and essential-use exemptions. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/25th-meeting-of-the-parties-to-the-montreal-protocol/ ]
04 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 March 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released a report to support the Subsidiary Body for Implementation’s (SBI) annual monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the framework for capacity-building in developing countries.
The report features sections on, inter alia: the overview of information reported by parties; capacity building activities under the Kyoto Protocol; and capacity building activities undertaken by UN organizations and other institutions. It contains...
