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Global climate change: In the context of the renewed emphasis on global climate change (GCC) as a result of the Fourth Assessment Report of the WMO-UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and based on UNESCO’s longstanding work on this issue, Major Programme II (MP II) spearheaded efforts within

The Beijing Statement on Combating Desertification and Promoting Sustainable Development (see E/CN.17/2008/15, annex I) recognizes the importance of forests in both preventing desertification and land degradation as well as in rehabilitating degraded lands; it also states that the implementation of the forest instrument provides a framework for advancing sustainable forest

In the past few months, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the GAVI Alliance have embarked on replenishments to ensure they can maintain their level of support to build better health systems; there have been calls for new financing of the Group of Eight 2009 L’Aquila Food Security Initiative and for a multi-donor trust fund that could support millions of farm families

In general, the implementation of UNESCO programmes within these offices is satisfactory in spite of the natural hazards (such as

Also at the same meeting, the Commission heard presentations by the following on the outcomes of intersessional events: Mr. Akira Nitta (Japan), on the outcomes of the “Inaugural Meeting of the Regional 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Forum in Asia” and the International Consultative Meeting on “Expanding Waste Management Services in Developing Countries”, which were held in Tokyo on 11 and 12 November 2009 and on 18 and 19 March 2010, respectively; the representative of the Republic of Korea, on the outcome of the International Expert Group

(e) Emphasize the need for coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, while noting also that least developed countries can seek to negotiate, as a last resort, on a case-by-case basis and through existing frameworks, agreements on temporary debt standstills

The issues that remain unresolved by the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties relate to the scale of implementation (acceptance of subnational implementation and monitoring),

Priorities set had included integrating adaptation to climate change into policy at all levels; capacity-building, capitalizing on existing expertise and dissemination of good practices; use of clean energy, reforestation and conservation of forest ecosystems; strategic re-evaluation of support to African agriculture in advance of the deadline for attainment of the Millennium Development Goals; establishment of an environmental body within the African Development

Delegates agreed that various successful agricultural practices – including restoration of degraded lands, sound management of grazing lands, improved crop cultivation, improved agriculture water management, best practices

The retreat, which brought together the senior leadership of UNIOGBIS, the United Nations country team and representatives of the Government and international partners, reviewed progress in the implementation of the current United Nations Development Assistance Framework and agreed on the following four priority objectives and actions for implementation by the United Nations system in Guinea-Bissau for 2010: (a) promotion of the rule of law and security sector reform; (b) governance, democracy and

With regard to section I of the report, he welcomed the recommendation contained in the related report of the Advisory Committee (A/65/575) that the General Assembly should take note of the revised security management framework which, inter alia, clarified the roles and responsibilities of all actors in the United Nations security management system, including those not previously included in the preceding framework, and highlighted the Organization’s duty as an employer to reinforce and, where necessary, supplement the capacity of the host Government to fulfil its obligations with regard to the security and protection of United Nations personnel, in circumstances where those personnel were working in

This results in the receptor protein being severely truncated and

(c) Information on climate change science and options for mitigation and adaptation responses should be made more widely available by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations and other international organizations,

The Working Group noted that on the recommendation of the Action Team, the NEO Observations Program Executive of NASA and the Space Situational Awareness-NEO Segment Manager of ESA had invited representatives of space agencies to discuss, in particular, the first draft terms of reference for a mission planning and operations group, on the margins of the forty-ninth

Proposals under discussion include, for example, an SDR-based global

There is also concern that the Framework Convention tends

While in infrastructure, large-scale publicly financed and promoted investment projects already evinced concrete examples of induced private investments,

Many developing countries are witnessing rapid economic growth but sustaining the gains calls for the international monetary and financial systems to be reconfigured to better

Given the linkages between environmental sustainability and the other Millennium Development Goals, investing in the sustainable use of resources and in providing clean energy, safe water, and sanitation can realize triple dividends in

All peoples and individuals have a human right to participate in