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Knowledge Curation for Policymakers
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The ways and speed with which policy-makers have accessed information over the past two decades has proved a mixed blessing. More. |
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Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI, Vice President, Reporting Services and UN Liaison, IISD |
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Climate Change and Wetlands: Implications for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
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Wetlands continue to be lost as a consequence of human actions, despite the fact that they provide a wide range of ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being and, in particular, that some wetland types deliver services that are extremely important for climate change adaptation. More. |
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Anada Tiega, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands |
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Africa: Seizing the Opportunity
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Climate change hinders growth and poverty reduction, but it also presents tremendous opportunities. More. |
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Keith Alverson, UNEP Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch and Climate Change Adaptation Unit, Richard Munang, Policy Advisor and Coordinator, Climate Change Adaptation and Development, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) |
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From Rio to Jeju: Nature Leads the Way
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The first major global environmental meeting that will seek to implement the Rio+20 outcomes is the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which will take place in Jeju, Republic of Korea. More. |
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Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director General, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) |
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| Latest News - 6 September 2012 |
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Additional Sessions of the AWGs Convene in Bangkok
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5 September 2012: The informal additional sessions of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) took place from 30 August-5 September 2012. The sessions sought to enable the bodies to continue work from the Climate Change Talks held in May 2012, in Bonn, Germany, and to advance preparations for the resumed sessions of the ad hoc working groups to be convened in Doha, Qatar, at the end of the year. More. Photo: ADP Co-Chairs Harald Dovland, Norway, and Jayant Moreshwar Mauskar, India, being congratulated by Haldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat at the close of AWG-ADP. |
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IISD Reporting Services is reporting from 6 to 7 September 2012, from Malta, from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewables and Islands Global Summit 
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