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19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 March 2013: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) has announced the launch of a new small island developing States community based adaption (SIDS-CBA) project in Seychelles. The project will work with coastal communities to address adaptation to coastal erosion and salinity from saltwater intrusion into agricultural lands.
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) officially launched the project at an event held on 18 January 2013. AusAID is...
19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 March 2013: During a plenary meeting on 13 March 2013, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a draft resolution that changes the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council to the “United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP.”
During the plenary meeting, delegates considered a note by the UN Secretary-General (A/67/784), circulated under sub-item (g) of agenda item 20 (Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on its twelfth special...
19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 March 2013: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has completed a three-day Expanded Capacity Workshop (ECW) for the West African Sahel, bringing together focal points from the GEF, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Representatives from civil society, the GEF Secretariat, and the GEF Agencies, also...
18 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 March 2013: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched a Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Program (BSE) to help Latin America and the Caribbean leverage its natural capital to protect the environment while promoting sustainable development.
The announcement took place on the occasion of the IDB Annual Meeting in Panama on 15 March. With the goal of identifying new biodiversity-friendly business and innovative South-South cooperation pathways, the program benefits from a...
18 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 March 2013: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project, jointly funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), is making gender a key consideration in its efforts to build resilience to climate change in Pacific island countries.
According to SPREP, when national adaptation activities are designed, gender-sensitive criteria...
