Latest News – 22 December 2011
Last Update for 2011
We_at_IISD RS wish you all the best for this holiday season and throughout the coming year. We will resume publication of our knowledgebases on 3 January 2012. Thank you for your support during 2011. continued…
UN Officials Link Rio+20 Success to International Solidarity
20_December 2011: International Human Solidarity Day was observed on 20 December 2011, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, and UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity Virginia Dandan suggesting that the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), while an opportunity to advance many key goals of the human community, will not succeed without international solidarity.continued…
ICIMOD Reports Warn of Vulnerabilities of the HKH Region to Climate Change
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6 December 2011: Three new reports released by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) warn that snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region threaten millions of mountain people and 1.3 billion people living downstream in Asia’s major river basins. continued…
Land Day 5 Discusses Zero Net Land Degradation Target
Read More: Land Day 5 Discusses Zero Net Land Degradation Target
6_December 2011: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in partnership with the Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa, and the World Agroforestry Center, convened Land Day 5 in parallel to the Durban Climate Change Conference. Participants at the one-day event discussed the climate benefits from a sustainable development goal for zero net land degradation. continued…
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