August 2011: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is conducting an e-survey assessment on how to organize international, interdisciplinary scientific advice.
1 August 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is inviting Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to nominate national and international reference laboratories to provide identification of living modified organisms (LMOs).
1 August 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has presented the results of a project to rehabilitate degraded drylands in Kazakhstan, which sought to improve livelihoods and provide sources of income for communities.
1 August 2011: The Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS), which was concluded under the auspices of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), has announced a project to support conservation efforts for one of Europe's most endangered bat species, the Greater Horseshoe Bat, as part of the Year of the Bat.
27 July 2011: Boeing, Embraer and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have announced they will jointly fund a sustainability analysis for renewable jet fuel production based on Brazilian sugarcane.
26 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has reported that the Government of the United States has named the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge as its 30th Ramsar Site.
26 July 2011: The Dominican Republic is to receive a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for a programme to help the country safeguard the quality of food consumed locally or exported, by improving the prevention and control of plant and animal pests.
25 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has announced that the report of the mission to Ramsar Site Doñana, in Spain, carried out on 20-22 January 2011, is now available in Spanish. The mission was conducted together with the World Heritage Centre 0f the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), acting as the advisor for natural sites.
22 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Secretariat) has reported on the launch of the Management Committee for the Anzali Wetland in Iran.
14 July 2011: The World Bank approved a US$13 million project from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to strengthen the capacities of the Congo Basin countries on issues related to REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stock) and forest carbon stocks measurements.
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