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10 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 May 2013: Faced with a new lethal disease, Bogia syndrome, which affects coconut palms, other palm species and some banana varieties, Bioversity International, a member of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR), is working with a coconut genebank in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, to fight the disease and to re-locate a coconut genebank.
Bogia syndrome was found within 20 km of the genebank, which is one of the world’s largest international collection of...
10 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 May 2013: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia, has released a working paper that examines policies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) benefit-sharing mechanisms in 13 countries. The publication aims to provide a global overview, comparative analysis and profile of five types of REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms.
The authors analyze how rights are structured under REDD+, and how political and economic factors...
09 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 May 2013: The Adaptation Fund has released the meeting report from the 20th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB), during which it approved a new project in Argentina, and placed projects in Belize, Ghana and Uzbekistan in the pipeline.
The meeting, held in Bonn, Germany, on 4-5 April 2013, was held alongside meetings of the Project and Programme Review Committee and the Ethics and Finance Committee of the Board. The AFB approved funding for $5.64 million to the Project ‘Unidad...
09 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 May 2013: On the occasion of the 2013 annual meeting of the Trust Fund Committees and Sub-Committees of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the World Bank approved five revised Investment Plans for the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), and established a global index of the business environment for energy aiming to improve opportunities for investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy access under the Program for Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP).
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08 May 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 May 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released a miscellaneous document containing the views of eight parties and one NGO on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) issues referred to in Decision 2/CMP.7, paragraphs 5-7 (FCCC/SBSTA/2013/MISC.8).
Parties that presented submissions are: Chad, for Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé e Príncipe; Indonesia; Japan; New Zealand;...
