14 September 2009: The Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) has published the report of its 17th meeting, which took place from 10-11 September 2009, in Kiev, Ukraine. At the meeting, the JISC considered various matters relating to the operation of Joint Implementation (JI).
3 September 2009: Aiming to aid policy makers in overcoming energy poverty by integrating energy decentralization into national and sector-specific decentralization policies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a literature review of over 600 online documents entitled “Energy in National Decentralization Policies: A Review Focusing on Least Developed Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa.”
15 September 2009: The World Bank has launched “World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change.”
14 September 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has presented the results of a study on “Shaping Climate-Resilient Development,” which provides a set of tools for decision makers to adopt a tailored approach for estimating adaptation costs based on local climate conditions, and for building more resilient economies.
11 September 2009: The report of the 49th meeting of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been published on the CDM website. The meeting took place from 8-11 September 2009, in Bonn, Germany.
September 2009: Gill Petrokofsky, FAO/UN-REDD Programme, and external experts have produced a draft protocol for a project aimed at comparing methods for the measurement and assessment of carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools.
11 September 2009: The report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, established under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), has been finalized and will be published as CBD Technical Series no. 41, Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change.
9 September 2009: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has released the final report of the 2009 Vienna Energy Conference, which convened from 22-24 June 2009, in Vienna, Austria.
September 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has published a booklet portraying its activities to combat land degradation and desertification.
10 September 2009: The sixth meeting of the plenary of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol will convene in Bangkok, Thailand, from 12-15 October 2009.
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