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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
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 April 2013: The fourth informal meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to define the format and organizational aspects of the high-level political forum (HLPF) took place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 11 April 2013.
Opening the meeting, Co-facilitator Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Permanent Representative of Italy, recalled that during the previous informal, held on 21 March 2013, delegations had registered preliminary views on a list of proposed non-exhaustive elements on the format...
10 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 April 2013: Preparations for the 2014 International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are underway, beginning with a planning mission led by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to Apia, Samoa, where the Conference will take place.
To support SIDS youth participation in the Conference, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a youth network, called “My World, My...
09 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 April 2013: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced Daniel Namosuaia, of the Solomon Star newspaper, as the 2012 winner of the Vision Pasifika Award, on the theme “Clean Pacific,” in the framework of the Pacific campaign addressing waste management issues in the region.
Namosuaia won the Award for his story “Wastes of our City,” which highlights issues and solutions with waste management practices in Honiara. A special...
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...
