Mitigation

InterAcademy Council to Review the IPCC’s Processes and Procedures

10 March 2010: At a press conference held on 10 March 2010, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Rajendra Pachauri launched an Independent Review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures. read more »

World Agroforestry Centre and Partners Convene REDD Workshops

10 March 2010: Workshops for countries participating in the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) and the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF) were held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1-3 March 2010, and Hanoi, Viet Nam, from 8-10 March 2010. read more »

ILRI and ICRISAT Researchers Release Paper on Livestock Production and Adaptation Strategies

10 March 2010: Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have released a paper titled “Climate change impacts on livestock production and adaptation strategies: A global scenario.” The paper was presented at the National Symposium on Climate Change and Rainfed Agriculture, which convened from 18-20 February 2010, in Hyderbad, India. read more »

Conference Highlights Role of Civil Nuclear Energy in Mitigation

9 March 2010: The International Conference on Access to Civil Nuclear Energy convened in Paris, France, from 8-9 March 2010, to discuss the promotion of nuclear energy technology for peaceful purposes. read more »

CBD Secretariat Circulates Fact Sheets for the International Year of Biodiversity

9 March 2010: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has circulated 30 fact sheets for the celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010. The fact sheets provide a brief synopsis on key issues related to the CBD and the Biosafety Protocol, including climate change and biodiversity.

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UNFCCC Publishes Inventory Reports of Australia, Bulgaria and Spain

9 March 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published reports submitted in 2009 of the individual reviews of the annual submissions of: Spain (FCCC/ARR/2009/ESP), Australia (FCCC/ARR/2009/AUS) and Bulgaria (FCCC/ARR/2009/BGR). read more »

Poverty Environment Partnership Meeting Addresses Climate and Environment Mainstreaming

8 March 2010: The 15th meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP 15), which took place from 1-5 March 2010, in Lilongwe, Malawi, convened under the theme “Climate and Environment Mainstreaming and the Green Economy to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.” read more »

EU Adopts Report with Non-Binding Sustainability Criteria for Biomass

25 February 2010: The European Commission has adopted a report on sustainability criteria for solid and gaseous biomass used in electricity, heating and cooling, which offers non-binding recommendations for sustainability criteria and monitoring methodologies for EU member States that wish to voluntarily adopt national biomass schemes. read more »

Event Announcement: From Copenhagen to Mexico: A climate of change in development policy

This seminar, organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will explore the results of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The event will also look at the opportunities and challenges for the region during 2010, which will be marked by preparations for the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Mexico.
Location
Cancun, Mexico
Start Date
20 March 2010
End Date
20 March 2010
Link

http://www.iadb.org/am/2010/?lang=en&disp=

Event Announcement: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Annual Meeting

Location
Cancún, Mexico
Start Date
19 March 2010
End Date
23 March 2010
Link

http://www.iadb.org/am/2010/?lang=en&disp=