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Iran’s Department of Environment in cooperation with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), ECO Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ECO-IEST), is hosting the International Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services conference in Tehran. The aim of the conference is to provide better life and human living standards through Ecosystem Services thorough the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Some 70 representatives from 42 world countries including representatives from FNR-Rio pilot countries, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Education, Science, and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) and United Nations Environmental Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) all attended this event.
Request to provide views and comments on a draft on: Barriers to Biodiversity Data Sharing
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has invited Parties to provide their views and comments on a draft document reviewing barriers to the sharing of biodiversity data and information, with recommendations for eliminating the barriers. Feedback received by 25 March 2012 will be taken into account when finalizing the document.
3rd PSC meeting of the FNR-Rio will be held on 13 March 2012 in Tehran
The 3rd meeting of the FNR-Rio Project Steering Committee will be held on 13 March 2012 in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. This one full day will be used for the Project Steering Committee to discuss issues suggested by the Project Document. At this stage the Project will provide some funding to bring to the meeting only the National Project Coordinator (NPC) of each pilot country .
Meeting on IPBES: open for FNR-Rio team members
FNR-Rio national teams are welcome to register for the IPBES capacity building workshop and consultative meeting to be held from 10 to 12 March 2012 in Tehran, hosted by the Department of Environment of Islamic Republic of Iran in collaboration with the ECO Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ECO-IEST), with support from UNEP and financial support from the Government of Norway.
Promoting synergies within biodiversity related MEAs
UNEP-WCMC is currently working on a report on synergies between the global biodiversity-related conventions under contract to the Finnish Ministry of Environment. The report is aimed as a contribution to the international environmental governance discussion, not least in the context of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
Afghanistan organized an exchange meeting on Rio Conventions
As per Rio project plan Piloting Integrated Processes and Approaches to Facilitate National Reporting to Rio Conventions (FNR_Rio) Afghanistan organized an exchange meeting on Rio Conventions on Sunday to Monday 25th December 2011, in a historical and major city and province of Herat in Afghanistan. Totally 41 participants from provincial directorate of NEPA and other directorates including technical advisers in this province. The participants were the high ranking and decision maker stakeholders of the local government.
Mauritius national meetings
Fifth meeting of Technical Working Group and a working session of the 3rd National Steering Committee were held in connection with the FNR Rio project in Port Louis, Mauritius. This meetings have been held as according to the annual workplan of the Project and in three technical sessions for CBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC.
The role of governments in mainstreaming sustainability reporting
As GRI works towards bringing sustainability reporting to discussions at Rio+20, the role of governments is becoming increasingly important. Several new initiatives highlight the significance of sustainability reporting for governments worldwide; governments are recognizing that widespread sustainability reporting practices can help markets function more efficiently, by providing important non-financial information, and also help drive progress by all organizations toward government-agreed sustainable development goals.
Project NSC meeting in Lao-PDR
The National Steering Committee Meeting of the FNR-Rio Project was conducted in Lao-PDR to present the national manual and capacity needs to the national reporting for 3 Rio was held from 30 November to 1st December 2011, at Napakuang resource, Thalath, Vientiane Province, organized by Planning and Cooperation Division.
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PARIS (IDN) – How to scale up, deliver and better direct international public climate finance has been a subject of discussion at the global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) apportioned up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15 percent of total official development assistance (ODA), to climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries in 2010.
