15 September 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have released the report of a workshop held to assist the Government of Laos to implement the Convention.
Participants at this conference will discuss regional and global experiences in mountain development since Rio 1992. The results of the Conference will produce insights that will feed into initiatives and events such as the UN Secretary General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP), the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20), and the CSD biennal cycle 20/21 in 2013 and 2014, where mountains will be one of the five priority themes, as well as into other global sustainable development processes. Among the themes debated will be the role, in mountains, of green economy and institutional frameworks for sustainable developement and poverty alleviation.
12 August 2011: The UN General Assembly has circulated an advance, unedited version of a Report of the UN Secretary-General, titled “Protection of coral reefs for sustainable livelihoods and development,” for consideration at the Assembly's 66th Session.
11 August 2011: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has published a report of the UN Secretary-General that was prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in response to UNGA resolution 64/205 requesting the Secretary-General to report to it at its 66th session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions.
27 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has reported that the Government of Mexico has designated El Jagüey, in "Buenavista de Peñuelas," and Lago de Chapala as Wetlands of International Importance, bringing its total number of Ramsar Sites to 123, the second highest number in any country.
July 2011: The latest issue of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) "Conservation Made Clear" newsletter features articles on conservation efforts in West Asia, including reviving traditional knowledge, restoring drylands and the re-discovery of the Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis in the Syrian Palmyra desert.
July 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Forest Trends, an NGO, have published an update to the 2010 report on the State of Biodiversity Markets, which finds that the global annual market size is US$2.4-4.0 billion at minimum, and likely much more, as 80 percent of existing programmes are not transparent enough to estimate their market size.
4 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has reported that the Government of Argentina has designated Palmar Yatay as its 20th wetland of international importance.
30 June 2011: The International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added 18 new sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR), bringing the total number of sites to 580. The new sites are located in Canada, Chile, China, Ghana, Jordan, Lithuania, Maldives, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sweden, Togo, Ukraine, Yemen, Israel, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Viet Nam.
Prince Albert II of Monaco will convene this meeting of experts to focus on ways to promote the sustainable use of oceans. Monaco will invite oceans experts, economists and business representatives from the five regional groups to reflect on the issues of food security, energy, and tourism in order to formulate concrete recommendations as well as implement and ultimately replicate the best learned practices from their local and regional experiences. The meeting will also discuss the relationship of these issues with the themes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
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