The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council is the main governing body of the GEF. It functions as an independent board of directors, with primary responsibility for developing, adopting, and evaluating GEF programmes. Council members representing 32 constituencies (16 from developing countries, 14 from developed countries, and two from countries with transitional economies) meet for three days, twice each year.
The GEF Council is the main governing body of the GEF. It functions as an independent board of directors, with primary responsibility for developing, adopting, and evaluating GEF programs. Council members representing 32 constituencies (16 from developing countries, 14 from developed countries, and two from countries with transitional economies) meet twice each year for three days.
This symposium is co-organized by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and its MedWet Initiative, as well as the High Commissariat for Water, Forests and Desertification Control of Morocco and other partners. The event is organized 20 years after the first pan-Mediterranean conference on wetlands, which was held in 1991 in the town of Grado, Italy, and which adopted the goal to "stop and reverse the loss and degradation of Mediterranean wetlands." This new International Symposium aims to review the current situation of water and wetlands in the Mediterranean, assess the new challenges and plan for the next 20 years. Important objectives are to assess the changes occurring in the Mediterranean and their potential impact on wetlands, to identify ways in which wetland resources can be used sustainably with a strong emphasis on water resources and to provide ways for closer cooperation between experts and actors in the Mediterranean involved in the water area, wetlands and other related sectors.
October 2011: The October issue of the Indian Ocean-South-East Asian (IOSEA) Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) e-newsletter highlights: that Malaysia has joined the MoU; the draft agenda of the sixth meeting of IOSEA Signatory States; and sea-turtle conservation efforts in Hong Kong.
September 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal Marine Programme has released the September 2011 edition of its newsletter (Marine Newsletter #21), including an update on a publication on the blue economy. The blue economy publication is being produced as a supplement to UNEP's Green Economy Report, and also will make the economic case for greening economic activities.
Convened by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Ecosystem Management Fisheries Expert Group, this meeting will review the extent to which biodiversity concerns are addressed in existing assessments; review the impacts on marine and coastal biodiversity of pelagic fisheries of lower trophic levels; and propose options to address biodiversity concerns in sustainable fishery management and related assessments.
29 September 2011: The European Commission has called on Italy to take measures to stop continued illegal use of drift-nets, which is in violation of an October 2009 Court of Justice ruling on Italy's failure to adequately control and enforce the EU ban on the use of drift-nets.
29 September 2011: The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on developing a common EU position ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), outlining its views on the concept of the green economy and desired outcomes of the Conference.
28 September 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) have released a report presenting 17 case studies of coastal management throughout the Pacific region.
27 September 2011: The European Commission has presented its first proposal for 2012 fishing opportunities for certain stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea, with proposed levels of total allowable catch (TAC) and fishing effort for the fish stocks managed by the EU exclusively.
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