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10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 November 2010: The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide technical support for sustainable and climate-resilient water projects in Samoa. EIB support will target the rehabilitation and upgrade of independent water schemes in Samoa under a EUR 250,000 technical assistance programme, which will also ensure community participation and improve drinking water quality and climate resilience.
Support will be provided under the EIB Water Project Preparation Facility dedicated to the Africa,...
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12 Aug 2011
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‘The Pacific Islands region has notched up consistently significant achievements in the renewable energy space in the past few years. It is on these that the region needs to build on. So far, it has been fairly successful in attracting funding for small sustainable energy projects with reports of their success appearing in the regional media quite regularly’
Over the past decade, increased global awareness of issues related to climate change and sea level rise has brought their...
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02 Aug 2011
Jeddah 30 July 2011 - Construction Products Holding Company (CPC) sponsored the participation of three female students from Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah, in the five-day Global Leadership Conference 2011 held recently in Singapore.
The conference was in preparation for the Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012, which will be attended by representatives from 20 countries.
"The conference was a good opportunity for today's generation of students to acquire...
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18 Jul 2011
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Manama, June 26 (BNA) - Dean of the Science College at the University of Bahrain (UoB) Dr Hashim Ahmed Al Sayed today announced that the Masters programme in Environment and sustainable development at the start of the 2011/2012 semester.
Dr Al Sayed said that this programme is considered one of the most important academic programmes that the UoB had presented in 2002 in cooperation with the UNESCO towards further developing the academic standards of higher studies at the university. This...
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
