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		<title>UN-REDD Presents Options for Private Sector Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) released a publication on private sector engagement in REDD+.]]></description>
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		<title>UN-HABITAT, UNISDR Launch DRR, CCA Technical Centre for Southern Africa</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/un-habitat-unisdr-launch-drr-cca-technical-centre-for-southern-africa/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) launched a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Technical Centre for Southern Africa, known as 'DIMSUR.' Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and the Comoros requested UN-HABITAT and UNISDR to facilitate the process to establish the Centre, which aims to reduce vulnerability and build community resilience in the four countries.]]></description>
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		<title>Bioversity International, IUCN and IFAD Stress Agricultural Biodiversity for Global Health</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/bioversity-international-iucn-and-ifad-stress-agricultural-biodiversity-for-global-health/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heads of Biodiversity International, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have published an editorial article describing the functions of agricultural biodiversity for human and ecosystem health, as well as threats to this natural resource base.]]></description>
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		<title>UN Poverty-Environment Initiative Deepens Efforts on Gender, Equality and Stakeholder Partnerships</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/un-poverty-environment-initiative-deepens-efforts-on-gender-equality-and-stakeholder-partnerships/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) launched its 2013-2017 programme, announcing that its new phase will consolidate current programme achievements, further integrate gender and equality concerns, and strengthen stakeholder partnerships for the long-term mainstreaming of poverty-environment issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Fourth ASEAN Heritage Parks Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) will organize the Fourth ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) Conference in the Philippines, with support from the GIZ Biodiversity and Climate Change Project, and the Government of the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Tourism. The conference is for park managers in Southeast Asia to discuss how to achieve international biodiversity targets and identify opportunities for international cooperation. Thematic sessions will be organized on: effective management of protected areas; biodiversity and climate change; integrating biodiversity values; ecotourism, business and biodiversity; and indigenous and local communities in protected areas. AHP conferences take place every three years. The ACB serves as the secretariat of the AHP Programme, which aims to ensure that park managers, policy makers, conservationists, scientists and other stakeholders benefit from available best practices and lessons on the management of AHPs and other protected areas. The ASEAN Declaration on Heritage Parks was agreed and signed by the environment ministers of the 10 ASEAN Member States in December 2003 in Yangon, Myanmar. There are more than 32 ASEAN Heritage Parks in the region.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This event is being convened by the International Food Policy Research Institute  (IFPRI) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and will explore how the landscape approach can address food security challenges while protecting biodiversity and combatting climate change. IFPRI and CIFOR are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The session will be webcast live.]]></description>
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		<title>Bonn Talks Make Progress on Technical Issues but Disagree on Work on Implementation</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/bonn-talks-make-progress-on-technical-issues-but-disagree-on-work-on-implementation/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Climate Change Conference, which took place in Bonn, Germany, centered on technical issues under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and on the 2015 agreement and pre-2020 mitigation under the resumed session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). Work on implementation was stalled due to lack of agreement on the agenda of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI).]]></description>
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		<title>World Day to Combat Desertification Focuses Attention on Drought and Water Scarcity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Desertification & Land Degradation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Day is celebrated on 17 June to mark the conclusion of negotiations on the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and World Day to Combat Desertification 2013 has sought to create awareness about the risks of drought and water scarcity in the drylands and beyond, and to call attention to the importance of sustaining healthy soils as part of the post-Rio+20 (UN Conference on Sustainable Development) agenda and the post-2015 development agenda. ]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum Advances Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 34th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF) was organized by the Intergovernmental Governmental Authority on Development's Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and other partners to formulate a regional climate outlook over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA), which is prone to extreme climate events, such as droughts and floods, that severely impact on key socialeconomic sectors.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Global Green Growth Forum in Latin America and the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the invitation of Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) President Luis Alberto Moreno, leaders from government, business, finance, civil society and international organizations will convene at the first regional dialogue in Latin America of the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF LAC). The event, on the topic "Rethinking our energy future: Climate change and renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean," seeks to highlight the substantial renewable energy endowment available in the region and identify collaboration opportunities and concrete actions to transform Latin America's energy market. Participants are expected to include: Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC; Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC; Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA; Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Minister of Energy, Mexico; René Castro, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; and heads of large electricity utilities, regulatory agencies, renewable energy institutions, and the private sector.]]></description>
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