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		<title>Event: Caring for Climate Business Forum: Innovation. Ambition. Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural Caring for Climate Business Forum – Innovation, Ambition, Collaboration – will meet from 19-20 November 2013, in Warsaw, Poland, on the sidelines of the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 19) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For the first time, the Global Compact, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNFCCC Secretariat are organizing this invitation-only event, which will showcase the contributions that business and investors can make towards climate action, while providing a high-level platform for exchange and collaboration with policymakers. More specifically, the Forum aims to: bring greater scale to business innovation on climate change; further encourage business and governments to raise ambition on climate policies; and encourage collaboration among business, the UN, governments and other stakeholders. New activities, resources, commitments and public-private partnerships are expected to be announced during the Forum. In addition to plenary sessions and thematic action workshops, a high-level meeting on 20 November will convene to: discuss a compendium of climate practices, innovations, collaborations and commitments to action across key climate change themes; and put forward recommendations for government actions that would help bring greater scale and quality to corporate climate leadership globally. It is expected the Forum will become an annual event.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: International Symposium on Sustainable Cities: Empowering Local Governments through Capacity Building</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/international-symposium-on-sustainable-cities-empowering-local-governments-through-capacity-building/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Capacity Building & Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) will host this international symposium to strengthen dissemination and sharing of good practices and lessons learned on fostering sustainable cities, in recognition of the role of cities in protecting the environment, improving disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience and reducing poverty. The symposium aims to identify strategies to strengthen local government institutional and technical capacity to address poverty reduction and slum upgrading, urban development, urban economic growth, urban transport and water and sanitation. The symposium also aims to identify areas for further capacity building and knowledge sharing and to identify innovative financing models to support urban infrastructure. The event will bring together representatives of governments, including and local government and planning officials, UN agencies, multilateral and regional development banks, the private sector and civil society in plenary sessions, working group sessions and panel discussions. The symposium is planned to overlap with the ‘Incheon Sister and Friendly Cities Conference,' which will be held in Incheon on 28 September 2013, and include mayors from cities around the world. The two events will have a joint closing session that will discuss advancing and implementing the sustainable urbanization agenda.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Expert Group Meeting on Climate-Land-Energy-Water-Development Case Studies</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/expert-group-meeting-on-climate-land-energy-water-development-case-studies/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This meeting is one of a series of expert group meetings to support the preparation of the Global Sustainable Development Report 2013. The meetings are being organized to review and complete draft chapters of the report, which is expected to be finalized by September 2013. This meeting will discuss the themed chapter on the climate-land-energy-water-development (CLEW) nexus. The chapter will include sections on: rationale and nexus examples; national case studies highlighting the utility of the nexus perspective in implementing sustainable development; regional case studies, including identified policy solutions and alternatives ones; a global case study, including policy recommendations from sectoral and thematic assessments; and towards coherent policy menus, which will identify criteria for policy menus across the nexus. ]]></description>
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		<title>Asia-Pacific Governments Adopt Agenda for Inclusive and Resilient Growth</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/asia-pacific-governments-adopt-agenda-for-inclusive-and-resilient-growth/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disasters & Humanitarian Relief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty Eradication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 69th Commission Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) met under the theme, “Building resilience to natural disasters and major economic crises,” and concluded with the adoption of 17 resolutions aiming to balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development for regional well-being.]]></description>
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		<title>Integrated Meeting on Sustainable Transport Adopts Bali Declaration</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/integrated-meeting-on-sustainable-transport-adopts-bali-declaration/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Seventh Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia and the Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the Post-2015 Development Agenda took place under the theme “Next Generation Transport Systems We Want for the 21st Century ~ Looking Beyond Rio+20." On the final day of the integrated meeting, delegates adopted the "Bali Declaration on Vision Three Zeros for Next Generation Transport Systems: Zero Congestion, Zero Pollution, and Zero Accidents."  ]]></description>
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		<title>UN Chronicle Examines Water Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/un-chronicle-examines-water-cooperation/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oceans & Coasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science, Assessment & Monitoring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of water cooperation serves as the starting point for articles in the first issue of volume 50 of the UN Chronicle. Articles in the magazine address water cooperation in the context of cross-cutting issues including: development goals; women and agriculture; integrated water resources management (IWRM); and involvement of the private sector.]]></description>
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		<title>UNSG Calls for Private Investment in Climate, Energy</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/unsg-calls-for-private-investment-in-climate-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, asking for the private sector's help in tackling climate change and advancing sustainable development. Held on the theme “the future of energy,” the 2013 Summit took place on 22-24 April 2013, in New York, US.]]></description>
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		<title>UN Secretary-General Calls on Ministers to Deliver on Climate Change Financing Commitments</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/un-secretary-general-calls-on-ministers-to-deliver-on-climate-change-financing-commitments/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed ministers participating in the Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development and Climate Change Financing, held in Washington, United States, on 19 April 2013. Among the areas that need progress for sustainable development, he underscored the post-2015 sustainable development agenda and the 2015 agreement under the UNFCCC. ]]></description>
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		<title>Group of Friends on SE4ALL Highlights Progress, Plans</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/group-of-friends-on-se4all-highlights-progress-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Co-Chairs of the Group of Friends on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) – Denmark, Norway and Pakistan – hosted a high-level event to update UN Member States on SE4ALL and others and gather support for sustainable energy. The event took place on 22 April 2013, in New York, US, in follow-up to the first meeting of the SE4ALL Advisory Board, on 19 April, in Washington, DC.]]></description>
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		<title>SE4All Advisory Board Announced, Marking &quot;New Era in UN-World Bank Relations&quot; </title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/se4all-advisory-board-announced-marking-new-era-in-un-world-bank-relations/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim have jointly announced the names of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Advisory Board, whose members will provide strategic guidance and serve as global ambassadors for the initiative. Ban and Kim are co-chairing the Board, marking what the Secretary-General called "a new era in UN-World Bank relations."]]></description>
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