Events
The Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership will be held on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at the Mountain Pavilion (Pavilion I, Athletes’ Park, Rio de Janeiro). The Mountain Partnership Secretariat looks forward to your participation and kindly requests to extend this invitation to your delegation attending the Rio+20 summit.Date: Tuesday, 19 June 2012Time: from 16 to 19...
Bringing Climate Finance to Grassroots Women – What does it take? WHEN: Sunday, June 17th, from 5:30 – 7 pmWHERE: UN2, Barra Arena, Rio de JaneiroWomen in many countries are disproportionally affected by climate change impacts, with many women in developing countries hit the worst. They have different experiences, knowledge and capabilities from men which are instrumental for effective...
ICIMOD sees Rio+20 as an important chance to redefine the mountain agenda considering new challenges that have evolved over the last two decades. ICIMOD is working with key institutions worldwide to make sure that the issues of mountainous countries and regions are clear and are noticed by UNCSD and other global processes. ICIMOD attends UNCSD as a recognized...
The side event will focus on the normative reference base for a human rights-based approach to sustainable development governance and make suggestions for required institutional settings and legislation. Normative considerations will be enriched with critical policy analysis and intelligence drawn from the practices the contributing organisations are undertaking in their various action fields....
Wageningen University will host the 3rd international workshop on “Comparative Water Studies” on 31 May and 1 June 2012, to further explore the interest in comparative water studies, to strengthen the emerging research network and to develop funding proposals. This workshop builds on the first scoping workshop held in London on 24-25 October 2011 and the second network-building workshop held in...
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming workshop "Tracking successful adaptation. Smart monitoring for good results" to be held in Bonn, Germany on 7 and 8 May 2012. Organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German FederalMinistry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the city of Bonn, and together...
Water security is a defining challenge for society in the 21st century. The ancient struggle to cope with water access and shocks is now magnified by global change to societies, economies and climate at multiple scales.The International Conference on Water Security, Risk and Society will be held April 16-18th 2012 at the University of Oxford. The event will convene many of the world’s thought...
The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is organizing an International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change - IMPACT - within the framework of the HABIT-CHANGE project (http://www.habit-change.eu) from 24-26 September 2012 in Dresden, Germany.IMPACT sets out to meet the growing need for sharing knowledge and experiences in the field of...
In 2003 the EU adopted its Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). In order to promote the import to Europe of legal timber, the EU proceeded in 2005 to introduce Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with countries that export tropical timber. As of March 2013, timber placed on the European market must be documented legal, and traders will be required to exercise...
Argentina viene realizando desde 1994 a través de la Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) y en el marco del Plan Espacial Nacional un enorme esfuerzo de desarrollo tecnológico para generar y hacer disponible la información satelital que tanto científicos como técnicos y usuarios finales necesitan. De esta manera, se llevaron a cabo numerosos trabajos, dando lugar a un incremento...