Governance

UN Regional Commissions Discuss Outcome of Copenhagen Conference

25 January 2010: The “Weekly” newsletter of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for the period 25-29 January 2010 reports on the first meeting in 2010 of the Executive Secretaries of the UN Regional Commissions, which included discussions on the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

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ADB and Japan Fund Climate Change Institutions in Bhutan

25 January 2010: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it will provide a US$0.7 million grant, financed by the Government of Japan, to build the capacity of Bhutan’s National Environment Commission for developing mitigation and adaptation measures that can counter climate change.

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CDM Executive Board Releases Proposed Agenda for 52nd Meeting

25 January 2010: The Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has published the proposed agenda and annotations, as well as the draft work programme, for its 52nd meeting, which will take place at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany, from 8-12 February 2010.

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BASIC Group Ministers Call for Additional Meetings Before Mexico

24 January 2010: The second meeting of Ministers of the four BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) Group countries took place in New Delhi, India, on 24 January 2010. In a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the meeting, the Ministers re-emphasized their commitment to working together with all other countries to ensure an agreed outcome at the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 16), which will take place in Mexico at the end of 2010.

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IEA Presents its Perspective on the Copenhagen Accord

12 January 2010: Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Richard Baron, Head of the IEA's Climate Change Unit, discussed the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference on 12 January 2010, offering presentations on "The Copenhagen Accord and the IEA" and "The Outcome of Copenhagen – an IEA perspective," respectively.

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Event: 52nd Meeting of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board

The Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will hold its 52nd meeting, during which it will consider matters relating to the governance of the CDM.  

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UN-REDD Newsletter Reflects on Copenhagen Conference

22 January 2009: The fifth issue of the UN-REDD Programme Newsletter provides an overview of events surrounding the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference related to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). These events included the production by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of a draft decision on methodological issues, which was adopted by the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15), and references to REDD being included in the Copenhagen Accord.

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IYB High-Level Event Draws Parallels Between Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

22 January 2010: At a high-level event organized at the headquarters of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France, from 21-22 January 2010, Davidson Hepburn, Chair of the UNESCO General Conference, stressed that “we are witnessing the loss of the very services on which livelihood systems depend,” in the case of many populations, particularly those of small island States.

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African Union and League of Arab States Commit to Strengthen Cooperation on Climate Change

16 January 2010: Climate change was among the items discussed during the fifth Annual Inter-Secretariat Meeting on General Cooperation between the African Union (AU) and the League of Arab States, which met at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo, Egypt, on 16 January 2010.

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OECD Secretary-General Stresses Need for Further Climate Action

December 2009: Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has stated that emissions reduction targets outlined in Copenhagen are insufficient.

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