As the
sixteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
got underway earlier this week, delegates were quick to connect its
current focus on agriculture, land, rural development, drought,
desertification and Africa to two other high-profile issues –
climate change and food security.
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CSD-16 CONSIDERS FOOD CRISIS, CLIMATE CHANGE LINKS |
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 New
York, 7 May—Delegates
to the sixteenth session of the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD-16), which is meeting in New York from
5-16 May 2008, have highlighted links
between the session’s thematic cluster of
issues and the current food crisis and
climate change. The session is reviewing the
issues of agriculture, rural development,
land, drought, desertification and Africa.
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Photo: CSD-16 Chair
Francis Nhema, Minister of Environment and
Tourism of Zimbabwe (center, right) and Sha
Zukang, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and
Social Affairs (center, left) |
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WORKING GROUP CONSIDERS MEASURES TO PROTECT MARINE
BIODIVERSITY BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTION |
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 New
York, 3 May—The
Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working
Group of the General Assembly to study
issues relating to the conservation and
sustainable use of marine biological
diversity beyond areas of national
jurisdiction, convened from 28 April - 2 May
2008, at UN headquarters in New York.
Delegates acknowledged differences of
opinion over legal interpretations and the
existence or nonexistence of regulatory and
governance gaps, and concentrated on
practical measures to conserve and protect
marine biodiversity beyond national
jurisdiction.
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Photo: Robert Hill
(Australia, left) and Juan Manuel Gómez-Robledo
(Mexico) co-chaired the Working Group |
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CITES COMMITTEES ESTABLISH INTERSESSIONAL WORKING GROUPS |
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Geneva, 24 April—The
17th meeting of the Plants Committee of the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) and the 23rd meeting of the CITES
Animals Committee were held in Geneva,
Switzerland from 15-19 and 19-23 April 2008,
respectively.
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Sixteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable
Development:
5-16 May 2008, New York, US |
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UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and
Democracy:
10-11 May 2008, New Haven, Connecticut, US |
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Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as
the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety:
12-16 May 2008, Bonn, Germany |
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Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9):
19-30 May 2008, Bonn, Germany |
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ECOSOC Special
meeting on Global Food Crisis:
20 May 2008, New York, US |
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