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Agenda and Planning Documents, Briefing and Information Documents
Scoping Workshop on Review of the State of Critical Habitats and Marine Protected Areas in the Western Indian Ocean Region
The GEF-funded project, ‘Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the protection of the Western Indian Ocean from land-based sources and activities (WIO-SAP) is aiming to make a major contribution to the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets 14.2 and 14.5 by reviewing critical habitats in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region.
A key aim of the WIOSAP programme is to develop tools and guidelines for vulnerability assessment and spatial planning. These tools and guidelines are intended to be used by the institutions in participating countries to both conduct ecosystem vulnerability assessment studies and support coastal monitoring and spatial planning processes at a national level. The outputs will contribute to building the capacity for relevant institutions to undertake vulnerability assessments and to support management and monitoring of the state of coastal ecosystems in the participating countries.
United Nations Environment Programme
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June 19, 2017 to June 22, 2017 |
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Securing Ecosystem Health of YSLME: UNDP/GEF Approaches to Support Marine Litter Management
Interim YSLME Commission Secretariat
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September 19, 2017 to September 20, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Report of the Initial GreenInvest Consultation under the German G20 Presidency, Singapore, 9-10 January 2017
The GreenInvest platform was originally created as part of the Development Working Group during the Mexican G20 Presidency in 2012. Under the German G20 Presidency, it is under the Sustainability Working Group (Energy and Climate) and aims at facilitating dialogue between developing countries and the G20 on the topic of green finance. GreenInvest is operated on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) by UN Environment. GreenInvest’s initial meeting under the German G20 Presidency was held in Singapore on 9-10 January, 2017, and attended by over fifty representatives from twenty developing countries, as well as representatives of international networks and organizations covering banking, insurance, institutional investors and others.
Participants discussed effective ways to enhance the voice of developing countries in international developments in green finance, and proposed practical actions for further development. This report offers a summary of these discussions and identifies areas for further work on the GreenInvest platform.
United Nations Environment Programme
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January 9, 2017 to January 10, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
GreenInvest Platform: Workshop on Green Financial Technology and Green Foreign Direct Investment, Berlin, 30-31 May 2017
GreenInvest aims to become the G20 platform for promoting policy dialogue, leadership and public-private initiatives with and for developing countries in advancing the mobilization and mainstreaming of green finance in the context of broader sustainable development objectives. The global economy will need to be fundamentally reoriented and redeployed in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and the commitments under the Paris Agreement, and the G20 plays a key role in shaping the international financial rules. GreenInvest therefore seeks to organize and structure developing country inputs to the G20 processes and other international forums: i) The first GreenInvest event – the Singapore consultation in January 2017 – formulated inputs to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures; ii) The second GreenInvest event – the Berlin workshop in May 2017 – aimed to foster dialogue between G20 countries, non-G20 developing countries and the private sector.
This report summarizes the Berlin workshop discussions. It includes key insights and action points that chart a possible course forward on these issues for the G20 and developing countries. Fuller summaries of the workshop’s presentations, panel discussions and breakout groups can be found in the appendices.
United Nations Environment Programme
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May 30, 2017 to May 31, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Seventh Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the PCB Elimination Network (PEN)
United Nations Environment Programme
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Report of the 14th NOWPAP POMRAC Focal Points Meeting
Pollution Monitoring RegionalActivity Center (POMRAC), United Nations Environment Programme
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October 26, 2017 to October 27, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Meeting Report of the 13th NOWPAP DINRAC Focal Points Meeting
Data and Information Network Regional Activity Centre (DINRAC), United Nations Environment Programme
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July 9, 2017 to July 10, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
2017 International Maritime Disasters Conference
United Nations Environment Programme, Northwest Pacific Action Plan
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December 6, 2017 to December 7, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Report of the Meeting for Forum for Heads of Academic and Research Institutions (FARI) in the Western Indian Ocean Region
The meeting for the Forum for Heads of Academic and Research Institutions (FARI) was organized to discuss the role of FARI in the implementation of WIOSAP (Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the protection of the Western Indian Ocean from land-based sources and activities) and SAPPHIRE (Western Indian Ocean Large Marine Ecosystems Strategic Action Programme Policy Harmonization and Institutional Reforms) projects by promoting science to policy interface and access the support required in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 in the Western Indian Ocean region.
United Nations Environment Programme
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April 13, 2017 |
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Meeting reports and proceedings
Report of the Meeting of the Forum of Academic and Research Institutions in the Western Indian Ocean Region (FARI)
The meeting was organized pursuant to the Eighth Conference of Parties to the Nairobi Convention Decision CP 8/12 on establishment of a platform for Science to Policy Dialogue which urges the Contracting Parties to establish a dialogue platform to strengthen the links between science, policy and action, and to mandate the Forum of national Academic and Research Institutions (FARI) to act as the technical advisory body of the platform.
United Nations Environment Programme
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December 12, 2017 to December 13, 2017 |
