 Knowledge-based
organizations, like IISD’s Reporting
Services, are essentially worth no more than
their accumulated intellectual capital. Our
value as an institution cannot be measured
in equipment, patents, buildings or land.
Instead, our value lies in the contribution
that our team members make, based on their
knowledge, to the reports and information
that we produce. We succeed or fail as a
conference reporting service and knowledge
broker on the accuracy, reliability and
timeliness of our work, and for this we rely
on our writers, editors and Thematic Experts
to be the best of the best. …
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Kimo Goree
Director, IISD Reporting Services |
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sustainable development policy developments
seem to proceed at the speed of “a snail,
taking a turn, with full brakes applied,” to
put it in the words of one of many chairs
that I have enjoyed watching practice their
craft during my years as an Earth
Negotiations Bulletin writer. Other
times, the rate at which delegates have
taken up new policy directions has seemed,
by contrast, almost astonishing. …
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Lynn Wagner, Ph.D.
Editor, Linkages Update and
MEA Bulletin |
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UNEP GOVERNING COUNCIL TO CONCLUDE FRIDAY |
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UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has convened the
25th session of the Governing Council/Global
Ministerial
Environment Forum (GC-25/GMEF), in Nairobi,
Kenya, from 16-20 February 2009. Ministers
considered the themes of “Globalization and the
Environment: Global Crises: National Chaos?” and
“International Environmental Governance and
United Nations Reform – IEG: Help or Hindrance?”
Delegates also discussed decisions on
strengthening the scientific and financial base
of UNEP, developing a legally-binding agreement
on mercury, support to Africa in environmental
management and protection, and UNEP’s budget and
programme of work.
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MEETING ON AFRICAN AGRICULTURE FORWARDS DECLARATION TO CSD17 |
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The High-Level Meeting on African Agriculture in
the 21st Century, which took place in Windhoek,
Namibia, from 9-10 February 2009, was a
ministerial-level meeting convened in
preparation for the 17th session of the
Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD17),
which is taking place in May 2009, in New York,
US. At the close of the meeting, delegates
adopted the Windhoek High-Level Ministerial
Declaration on African Agriculture in the 21st
Century, which notes a number of recommendations
for consideration by CSD 17.
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PEW COMMISSION ON WHALE CONSERVATION HOLDS THIRD MEETING |
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 The
Pew Commission on Whale Conservation in the 21st
Century met from 9-10 February 2009, in Lisbon,
Portugal, and brought together 13 Pew Whales
Commission members and around 25 observers, who
reached consensus on issues including: that the
best way forward would be to develop a protocol
to the current Convention that modernizes both
the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and
its constituent instrument, the International
Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW);
and the need for high-level participation in the
IWC’s Annual Meetings. Areas of disagreement
included: the possibility of officially
permitting small-type coastal whaling in Japan;
ceasing all whaling operations in the Southern
Ocean; and bringing scientific whaling under the
authority of the IWC Scientific Committee,
rather than that of individual States.
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IWC Workshop on Climate Change and Cetaceans:
21-25 February 2009. Sienna, Italy. |
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Third International Conference on Community Based Adaptation
(CBA) to Climate Change:
22-24 February 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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G-77 Ministerial Forum on Water:
23-25 February 2009. Muscat, Oman. |
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First Meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability
and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety:
23-27 February 2009. Mexico City, Mexico. |
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Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the seventeenth
session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD17):
23-27 February 2009. New York, US. |
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40th Session of the UN Statistical Commission:
24-27 February 2009. New York, US. |
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28th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries:
2-6 March 2009. Rome, Italy. |
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UN Commission on the Status of Women:
2-13 March 2009. New York, US. |
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Tenth Session of the Human Rights Council:
2-27 March 2009. Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change:
5-7 March 2009. Aarhus, Denmark. |
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