12 November 2012: The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) is partially funding a feasibility study, by the firm BioenergyR4E Choloma, of a project for a power generation plant using manure from pig farms as its fuel.
27 November 2012: The UNFCCC Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG LCA) has released a draft decision on enhanced mitigation of developed countries on behalf of 20 parties.
21 November 2012: The Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) has accredited two new entities as a National Implementing Entities (NIEs): the Fundecooperacion for Sustainable Development of Costa Rica, and the Agency for Agricultural Development (ADA) of Morocco.
21 November 2012: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) convened a panel discussion on the Green Industry Platform, which was launched during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The panel, held on 21 November 2012, announced the composition of the Platform's advisory board.
6 November 2012: The Global Water Partnership (GWP) Central America organized a workshop to discuss the application of integrated urban water management (IUWM) in Central America, where two-thirds of the population live in urban areas and water systems are considered vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters.
20 November 2012: The US and Mexico have signed a five-year agreement to share Colorado River water during periods of both drought and surplus. The agreement also creates an Intentionally Created Mexican Allocation (ICMA) program, where surplus water from certain conservation and water source projects could be held by the US on Mexico's behalf, for later delivery to Mexico.
15 November 2012: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as the implementing partner for the Forest Investment Program (FIP), will provide US$15 million in financial and technical assistance to Mexico to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through reducing deforestation in five of the Mexican states with the greatest forest loss.
This workshop is organized by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (CReW), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and several Caribbean governments. The workshop seeks to provide participants from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the environmental, finance and utility sectors in CReW's 13 participating countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) with an understanding of the operation of revolving funds, with particular reference to developing country experiences and their application to wastewater treatment projects in the Caribbean. The workshop will also assist pilot countries in the operation and design of national funding mechanisms to be developed under the GEF CReW Project. Finally, the workshop aims to promote a network of expertise to facilitate the replication and/or development of similar funding mechanisms in other non-pilot Caribbean countries.
15 November 2012: The 43rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council adopted a Work Program that amounts to US$174 million and benefits 63 countries. Ten of the projects and programs approved will benefit Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
15 November 2012: In a "Question and Answers" memo on illegal fishing, the European Commission discusses its decision to warn eight third countries of the risk of being identified as non-cooperative.
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