2 September 2009: Addressing the Second Latin American and Caribbean Dialogue towards Copenhagen, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), offered a “neutral ground for dialogue to help the region advance towards common positions.”
2 September 2009: The Africa Partnership Forum's (APF) one-day high-level session on climate change in Africa concluded with an expression of the region's determination to make a significant contribution to efforts at reducing global emissions.
1 September 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has launched the 2009 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) International Photo and Video Contests, which has as its theme “CDM Changing Lives.”
This seminar for the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States is co-sponsored by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).
2 September 2009: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ended his trip to Norway with a boat trip to the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, where he stood on the ice and urged world leaders to take action against climate change.
2 September 2009: Investing in the restoration and maintenance of the Earth's ecosystems can play a key role in countering climate change and climate-proofing vulnerable economies, says a new climate issues update by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project.
1 September 2009: During a meeting with Danish Minister of Development Cooperation Ulla Toernaes, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark received a torch symbol of the Millennium Development Goal on gender equality and women empowerment (MDG3).
28 August 2009: The World Agroforestry Congress, which convened at UN headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, discussed tree-planting solutions that could help the African continent deal with climate change and also provide a long-term solution to the continent's food scarcity problems.
27 August 2009: The proposed agenda and annotations, as well as the draft work programme, for the 17th meeting of the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) are now available on the JI website.
27 August 2009: 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 49th meeting, scheduled to convene from 8-11 September 2009, at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany.
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