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Reporting on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa


The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - Reporting Services Division (IISD RS) and South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, in partnership with the UN Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Africa and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) secretariat, have joined together to assist in communicating the policy outcomes of African regional meetings on environment and related sustainable development issues to the larger international community. Building on the success of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin in covering international environment and sustainable development meetings, the African Regional Coverage (ARC) Project will replicate this success at the regional level in order to make the outcome of Africa’s meetings available to the world in real-time. More Information on the Africa Regional Coverage (ARC) Project.

Recent Coverage
World Water Day 2011 (WWD 2011)
22 March 2011, Cape Town, South Africa
First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa
12-16 April 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
Second African Water Week (AWW-2), Second Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water (PANAFCON-2), and Seventh Ordinary Session of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW-7)
9-13 November 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa
Second Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Consultative Meeting
5-7 May 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
High-Level Meeting on African Agriculture in the 21st Century
9-10 February 2009, Windhoek, Namibia
Fifteenth Session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Africa (CIFAA)
9-11 December 2008, Lusaka, Zambia
Executive Committee and Technical Advisory Committee of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)
24-28 November 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
Africa Commission Conference on Climate Change in Africa
18 September 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
Africa Carbon Forum
3-5 September 2008, Dakar, Senegal
First Inter-ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa
26–29 August 2008, Libreville, Gabon
First Extraordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for Cooperation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region (the Abidjan Convention)
10 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa
Twelfth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-12)
7-12 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa
Fifth African Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ARSCP-5)
4-6 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa
First African Water Week
26-28 March 2008, Tunis, Tunisia
Expert Group Meeting on Land for Sustainable Urbanisation in Africa
21-22 February 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Complete list of Recent Meetings covered by IISD RS - African Regional Coverage

Briefing Papers
ARC Briefing Note on the Outcomes of the Seventeenth African Union Summit
ARC Briefing Note on the Outcomes of the Third Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development
ARC Briefing Note on the Outcomes of the Fourteenth African Union Summit
ARC Briefing Note on the High-Level Meeting on African Agriculture in the 21st Century
ARC Briefing Note on the outcomes of the Eleventh African Union Summit
ARC Briefing Note on the Outcomes of the Tenth African Union Summit
Briefing Note on the Outcomes of the Joint COPs of the Abidjan and Nairobi Conventions
Briefing Note on Urban Land in Africa
Briefing on the Development of an African Eco-Labeling Mechanism
Biosafety Policy Brief
Eighth African Union Summit - Briefing Note 2
Eighth African Union Summit - Briefing Note 1
Africa and the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly
First meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators

Partners
South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA)
UN Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Africa
Convention on Biological Diversity

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Contact the Africa Regional Coverage Project
Kimo Goree
Director IISD RS
kimo@iisd.org		 Chris Spence
Deputy Director IISD RS
chris@iisd.org		 Kate Louw
Programme Manager
Kate@iisd.org

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