Financing Climate Change : Africa's Access to Convention Funds (3 december) This side event will provide a forum for dialogue on current efforts to develop and operationalize the Green Climate Fund with a special focus on Africa. Donors, civil…
The 2012 scientific programme of the 5th Ouranos symposium is an opportunity to review the progress made in recent research efforts within Ouranos and its network. The symposium will feature a number of top-ranked speakers, and will also provide a…
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Second Committee of the General Assembly, in collaboration with FAO, IFAD and WFP, are organizing on 1 November, a special event on food security and nutrition. Following up on Rio+…
INVITACION La próxima reunión del Comité Mundial de Enlace se tendrà : El MARTES 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2012 entre 17:00 (precisamente) y 19:30 al Hotel Istanbul Grand Cevahir. El orden del día de esta reunión del Comité se referirá a: La preparación de…
Thematic Focus - Water Security Transboundary water issues have cross-cutting implications for the aims of Rio+20. This side event will focus on the UNWC as a tool to fill in gaps in the institutional framework for sustainable development, and…
Con el fin de alimentar desde este momento los intercambios y la reflexión, el sitio de la conferencia , presenta dos temas centrales entorno a los cuales se articulará el debate:
««La economía verde en el marco del desarrollo sostenible y la…
Geneva, 17 March 2012 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates…
En total: más de 150 filmes, provenientes de 50 países. Los temas: mitos y leyendas acuáticas, baños públicos, ritos y tradiciones, protección de las zonas húmedas, ecosistemas acuáticos, derecho de acceso al agua potable y al saneamiento,…
Objetivos Assumem-se como objetivos específicos do ciclo de Fóruns Regionais da Água : Apresentar o PGRH-Norte e mobilizar os agentes para a ação ; Dar a conhecer os principais problemas e potencialidades das massas de água ; Debater boas…
In July 2010, the United Nations recognized the right to universal access to water. Currently, nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to improved water sources, over 300 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. As it did with the…