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15 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 April 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat released an updated compilation of all nationally appropriate mitigation action (NAMAs) that developing countries intend to implement (FCCC/SBI/2013/INF.12). It contains NAMA information communicated by 55 developing countries and a group of parties, as included in documents FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/INF.1 and FCCC/AWGLCA/2012/MISC.2 and Add.1, as well as those provided by Burkina Faso, Dominica, Gambia and Guinea, who had not previously communicated NAMAs.
The...
15 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 March 2013: The Small Island Developing States Community-Based Adaption (SIDS-CBA) Project, funded by Australian Aid (AusAid), was officially launched in Seychelles on 18 January 2013, with the objective to assist vulnerable communities to cope with climate change impacts, affecting particularly the fisheries and agriculture sectors.
SIDS-CBA is implemented by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and delivered by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP). In...
15 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
12 April 2013: At its 20th meeting, the Adaptation Fund Board approved a new project in Argentina to be implemented through the Fund’s direct access mechanism, but was unable to make progress on three projects submitted by multilateral implementing entities (MIE) due to the Fund’s limited resources.
The $5.64 million Argentinan project will work to increase adaptive capacity of small-scale famers and will be implemented by the Unit for Rural Change, a National Implementing Entity (...
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...
