The Mediterranean City: A Conference on Climate Change Adaptation will initiate an ongoing collaboration of cities working together to share ideas, needs and strategies to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change as they similarly affect the five Mediterranean-climate regions of the world. The conference will bring together an international network of experts from the academic, policy, business, public health and government worlds. Mediterranean-climate regions largely occur along the western edges of continents between the 30 degree and 40 degree parallels in both northern and southern hemispheres. The Mediterranean climate, moderated by cold ocean currents offshore, is characterized by hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. While these ecosystems cover just under three percent of the earth's land area, they contain about 20 percent of its plant biodiversity, including over 26, 000 endemic species.
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23 April 2011: The Commodities and Development Report 2012 of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that are net importers of food.
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10 April 2012: The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Munich RE Foundation have released the second volume of "Microinsurance Compendium, Protecting the Poor," which highlights that the number of microinsured people has reached almost 500 million. The report emphasizes the role of microinsurance in poverty alleviation when combined with social protection, risk prevention, mitigation, and vulnerability reduction.
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April 2012: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have published the 2012 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This year's edition, titled “Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals,” highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices.
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The Inter-American Development Bank is organizing an event on Climate Change and Sustainability on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The event is open to the private and public sectors as well as civil society. Discussions will address, among other topics: mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilient low carbon development, biodiversity, sustainable energy and the challenges of a local level sustainability agenda.
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23 April 2012: The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued two Communiqués and held a breakfast meeting was among the heads of the UN, the World Bank Group and the IMF with finance ministers from around the world to discuss inclusive green growth and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources, and how to achieve concrete outcomes at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June.
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Co-organized by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Government of Qatar, this meeting will discuss the dynamics and challenges of foreign direct investment in a post crisis global economy, addressing among other issues: investment in low carbon growth and technologies; and opportunities for partnerships and policy options for promoting sustainable investment. The meeting will be attended by Heads of State and ministers, global Chief Executive Officers, heads of international organizations and civil society. The World Investment Forum (WIF) is a high-level, biennial, multi-stakeholder gathering that is designed to facilitate dialogue and action on the world's key emerging investment-related challenges. The third WIF will take place in conjunction with the UNCTAD XIII Ministerial Conference (21-26 April 2012) in Doha, Qatar.
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The 24th CDCC will, inter alia, review the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) for implementation of the outcomes of the Mauritius Strategy for the further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, review the implementation of the work programme for the UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, and address the matter of strengthening statistical capacities in the Caribbean. The CDCC was created in 1975 as a permanent subsidiary body of ECLAC to promote the economic and social development of ECLAC Member and Associate Member States in the Caribbean. It meets at the ministerial level every two years.
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring meetings gather Governors of the Bank and IMF to provide guidance to the management of the Bretton Woods institutions.
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Co-hosted by the Government of Barbados and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) conference, under the theme "Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in SIDS–Challenges, Opportunities and Commitments," and Roll-out of the Year of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) will take place in Bridgetown, Barbados. A High-Level SIDS SE4ALL Conference will take place on 7-8 May, and the SIDS Rio+20 meeting will take place on 9 May.
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