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serious situation that threatens the future
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Director, IISD Reporting Services |
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the opening day of the Copenhagen Climate
Change Conference in December 2009 draws
closer, the amount of information that
climate change policy makers could
incorporate into their decision-making
process seems to increase exponentially. …
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WORLD CLIMATE CONFERENCE ADOPTS DECLARATION ON GLOBAL
FRAMEWORK FOR CLIMATE SERVICES |
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 Geneva,
5 September—The
World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) convened in
Geneva, Switzerland, from 31 August-4 September
2009, under the theme “Better climate
information for a better future.” In a
Conference Declaration, the heads of State,
ministers and heads of delegation, inter alia:
decide to establish a Global Framework for
Climate Services to strengthen production,
availability, delivery and application of
science-based climate prediction services;
request the World Metrological Organization to
convene an intergovernmental meeting within four
months to approve the terms of reference and
approve the composition of a high-level task
force, and decide that the task force shall
prepare a report on the development and
implementation of the framework, to be
considered by the 2011 WMO Congress.
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Photo: L-R: Kofi Annan, President of the
Global Humanitarian Forum; Michel Jarraud,
Secretary General, WMO; and Hans-Rudolph Merz,
President of Switzerland |
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EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSES OCEAN ACIDIFICATION |
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 New
York,
4 September—The
Expert Panel on Ocean Acidification convened at
UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 3 September
2009. The event was organized by the UN
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the
UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the
Sea, and the UN Foundation. The meeting aimed to
increase awareness and highlight options to
avoid adverse impacts of ocean acidification on
marine life and ecosystems by bringing together
key stakeholders.
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Photo: L-R: Patricio Bernal, Executive
Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission; Melinda Kimble, Senior Vice
President, UN Foundation; Thomas Lovejoy,
Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for
Science, Economics and the Environment;
Dessima Williams, Permanent Representative
of Grenada to the UN and current AOSIS chair;
and Ken Caldeira, Department of Global
Ecology, Carnegie Institute for Science |
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INFORMAL CLIMATE CHANGE MEETING CONCLUDES WITH CALLS FOR
FASTER PROGRESS |
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Bonn,
15 August—The
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the Ad
Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for
Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)
held intersessional informal consultations in
Bonn, Germany, from 10-14 August 2009 (also
referred to as Bonn III). After a week of
consultations by five main informal groups and
several sub-groups on mitigation, the AWG-LCA
began to produce reading guides, tables,
matrices and non-papers aimed at consolidating
text and facilitating negotiations at the next
meeting. The various tools will be compiled in a
new information document. The revised
negotiating text will remain largely as it was
at the beginning of the Bonn III consultations.
Under the AWG-KP, discussions continued on Annex
I parties’ emission reductions beyond the first
commitment period ending in 2012. The AWG-KP’s
work at the informal session will be taken into
account in documents that the AWG-KP Chair will
prepare for Bangkok.
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UNDP REGIONAL PROGRAMME FOR LAC CONVENES CONSULTATION ON
BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS |
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Mexico City,
15 August—The
UN Development Programme (UNDP) Regional
Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC) held a consultation in Mexico City,
Mexico, on 13-14 August 2009 as part of a
regional initiative entitled “Biodiversity and
Ecosystems: Why these are Important for
Sustained Growth and Equity in Latin America and
the Caribbean.” This initiative will contribute
to the preparation of a report on the role of
biodiversity in wealth generation and support of
wellbeing in the region.
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IISD Reporting Services will be reporting from the
Seventieth Session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe
Committee on Housing and Land Management
23-25 September 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland
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