A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental
Activities Addressing Global Climate Change Policy

12 September 2008: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

released a tool known as the “Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard” during the

fourth Annual Western Hemisphere Energy Security and Cooperation Forum, held on

9 September 2008, at IDB’s headquarters in Washington, DC, US.

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10 September 2008: Presenting his report on the status of

the Community Work Programme, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, President of the Economic

Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, highlighted the economic

impacts of the increase of food and commodity prices in West African States.

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10 September 2008: In a speech at Fairleigh Dickinson

University, US, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined the challenges of the

world today, including climate change, the food and energy crises, and the fear

of a global financial crisis.

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4 September 2008: The Economic Commission for Latin America

and the Caribbean (ECLAC) seminar entitled “Food and Energy Crisis:

Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean” took place in

Santiago, Chile, from 4-5 September 2008.

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1 September 2008: On the eve of the third High-Level Forum

on Aid Effectiveness, which met from 2-4 September 2008, in Accra, Ghana,

Lennart Båge, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development

(IFAD), urged donors and their partners in developing countries to take

responsibility for accelerating action to meet the commitments in the Paris

Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

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September 2008: The third African Green Revolution

Conference convened from 28-29 August 2008, in Oslo, Norway, organized by Yara

International ASA, a Norwegian fertilizer company, in partnership with the

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the African Development Bank

(ADB) Norad, Norfund and Rabobank.

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29 August 2008: The International Symposium on Climate

Change and Food Security in South Asia, which met from 25-30 August 2008, in

Dhaka, Bangladesh, and was co-sponsored by Ohio State University, the World

Meteorological Organization, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the University of

Dhaka and the Government of Bangladesh, adopted a Declaration and

recommendations towards minimizing the short- and long-term vulnerability of

the South Asian region to climate change.

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25 August 2008: A UN-sponsored International Symposium on

Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia, taking place from 25-30 August

in Dhaka, Bangladesh, aims to develop an agriculture mitigation and adaptation

framework for climate change implementation in South Asia. Participants are

also expected to recommend policy and financial innovations to enable the

implementation of the framework and its integration into the sustainable

development planning of South Asia countries.

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21 August 2008: The Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable

Development (SEED) Initiative has announced the winners of its 2008 SEED Awards

for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development. The SEED Initiative is a

global network for action on sustainable development partnerships, founded by

IUCN, the UN Development Programme and the UN Environment Programme, to deliver

progress toward the internationally-agreed goals in the UN’s Millennium

Declaration and the commitments made at the World Summit on Sustainable

Development in Johannesburg in 2002.

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August 2008: The Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable

Development and Aid Effectiveness will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 26-28

August 2008, and will focus on climate change, food security and aid

effectiveness. The event will bring together African parliamentarians and

experts, as well as members of parliament from Europe and Japan.

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