Science and Technology
10 Apr 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
4 April 2012: The Basel Convention Regional Centre for the Caribbean Region has submitted its business plan for the 2012-13 biennium to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention).
The plan was developed after consultation with stakeholders in the public, private and civil society sectors throughout the Caribbean and submitted to the Basel Secretariat on 2 April 2012. It identifies priority training...
10 Apr 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
5 April 2012: The Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) has released the training module used in a recent overseas countries and territories (OCTs) workshop on mainstreaming climate change into national development planning and budgeting.
The OCT Workshop, which took place from 27-28 January 2012, in Brussels, Belgium, was one of a series. A first workshop was held in Vanuatu in the Pacific in February-March 2011, another session took place in Maseru, Lesotho, in October 2011, and two sessions ...
04 Apr 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
30 March 2012: Highlighting the challenge of conserving edible bananas, which do not have seeds, Bioversity International is participating in a project that seeks to protect varieties of banana. The project is being carried out in conjunction with the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), and is part of a global effort to conserve banana genetic diversity and promote their use through the MusaNet network coordinated by Bioversity International. ...
02 Apr 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
30 March 2012: For the first time in several years, the scientific committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) met in tandem.
The 26th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee (AC 26) convened from 15-20 March 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting was followed by the Joint Meeting of the AC and Plants Committee (PC), which took place in Dublin, Ireland, from 22-24 March 2012. Finally, the 20th meeting of the Plants Committee (PC...
02 Apr 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
27 March 2012: A UN inter-agency assessment of sustainable development efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past 20 years identifies advances and gaps specific to the Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS).
Caribbean SIDS are the focus of a special chapter of the broader report titled “Sustainable development 20 years on from the Earth Summit: progress, gaps and strategic guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean,” presented at a side event held...
