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17 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 April 2013: Ministers and senior officials from over a dozen donor countries met in Washington, DC, US, on 10-11 April 2013, to discuss ways to meet the challenge of scaling up climate finance and low-carbon investment in developing countries.
The meeting, which was convened and chaired by the US, was attented by representatives from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the UK and the US, as well as from development...
17 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 April 2013: At a two-day conference in Dublin, Ireland, global leaders discussed critical challenges related to addressing hunger, nutrition and climate justice. Panel discussions focused on: risks, rights, knowledge and empowerment in the hunger, nutrition and climate justice dialogue; a vision for the world in 2050; local knowledge and local solutions; the post-2015 development agenda; effective policy responses; and commitments to lead.
The Dublin Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, Climate...
16 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2013: The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) has released publications addressing issues central to the green economy and the development of post-2015 development goals, gender equity, land rights and agriculture in Southern Africa, Madagascar, Guatemala, Brazil, and Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS).
The IPC-IG paper titled “Locating the Policy Space for Inclusive Green Growth within the SADC Extractive Sector” explores the high...
16 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 April 2013: Party representatives and observers attending the third meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) discussed: arrangements between the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF); the Forum of the SCF; the fifth Review of the Financial Mechanism; and the work programme on long-term finance.
The meeting’s report (SCF/2013/3/7) indicates that, on arrangements for COP-GCF, the SCF agreed to propose a list of elements for consideration by the GCF...
16 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 April 2013: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved US$50 million for the launch of the Energy Efficiency Finance Facility, which aims to finance companies investing in energy efficiency and self-supply renewable energy projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), by helping them to overcome financial barriers with small-scale loans to curb emissions.
According to IDB, the loans will range in size from US$500,000 to US$5,000,000. The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) will...
