12 June 2013: The UN Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) launched its 2013-2017 programme, announcing that its new phase will consolidate current programme achievements, further integrate gender and equality concerns, and strengthen stakeholder partnerships for the long-term mainstreaming of poverty-environment issues.
11 June 2013: Supported by the World Bank, the Caribbean island State of Saint Lucia has carried out successful efforts to reduce the consequences of disasters through the promotion of low-cost community-based interventions for vulnerable hillside communities.
12 June 2013: The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) announced the continuation of the project on ‘Monitoring deforestation, logging and land use change in the Pan Amazonian Forest – PANAMAZON II,' which supports monitoring of forest cover in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
12 June 2013: In an effort to create an open dataset to track large scale land acquisition deals from negotiation to implementation, the Land Matrix partnership has launched the second phase of its Global Observatory.
11 June 2013: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released two reports on Brazil nuts, one examining the relationship between Brazil nut and timber harvesting in Peru and a second on the relationship between Brazil nut harvesters and logging operators in Bolivia.
7 June 2013: The World Bank approved a US$5.86 million grant to the Sustainable Land Management project in Chile, which is financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and aims to develop a national framework for sustainable land management (SLM) to combat land degradation, mainstream biodiversity into national policies, and protect forest carbon assets.
10 June 2013: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has announced the semi-finalists for the 2013 Land for Life Award. The three winners will be announced on 17 June, World Day to Combat Desertification. In addition, the Secretariat has invited submissions for its third photography contest.
27 May 2013: The UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) highlighted its City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP) during a side event titled 'Building Safer and Resilient Cities and Settlements,' held at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Geneva, Switzerland. CRPP aims to develop a comprehensive, integrated urban management and planning approach to monitor city risk resilience, including to climate change and multi-hazard catastrophic events.
May 2013: The UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has assisted the Government Haiti in convening a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) awareness raising workshop. The workshop planned activities to be completed under Haiti's SAICM project, titled “Strengthening Capacities in the Republic of Haiti for National SAICM Implementation and Supporting GHS Capacity Building.”
16 May 2013: The Adaptation Fund is calling for public comments on concepts and proposals from seven countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The project concepts and proposals will be considered at the 21st meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) to be held in Bonn, Germany, from 1-4 July 2013.
| Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) |
|
| Conference Reporting Services (CRS) |
