20 October 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has released the report and presentations from the Ramsar Regional Meeting for Africa.
14 October 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has reported that the Climate Change Adaptation Initiative (CC DARE), jointly implemented with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), with funding from the Danish Government, has trained 600 unemployed youth in bee-keeping in Ethiopia in an effort to address climate change impacts and food insecurity.
11 October 2011: The Secretariat of the League of Arab States organized the meeting of the "Arab Working Group on the implementation of biodiversity and desertification related Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)," at which representatives of Arab countries heard reports from the various MEAs on their work over the past year relevant to the Arab region.
October 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariats have jointly published a book on sustainable land management (SLM) projects, highlighting the impact of many of these projects in achieving SLM, as well as experiences and lessons learned.
11 October 2011: On the sidelines of the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 10), UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja named Dennis Garrity, outgoing Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, and Deborah Fraser, South African gospel singer, as UNCCD Drylands Ambassadors.
11 October 2011: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) have presented the results of a pilot project on impact indicators.
3 October 2011: The Migratory Wildlife Network has announced that the Presidents of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have signed the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Treaty, establishing the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA).
10 October 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a post-conflict assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), underlining the significance of DRC's natural and mineral resources. The assessment, titled “The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment UN Environment Programme Synthesis for Policy Makers,” also underscores the need to urgently address multiple pressures on natural resources.
29 September 2011: The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has released a report titled "Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on the Cocoa-Growing Regions in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire," which predicts that a temperature rise of over 2ºC by 2050 would dramatically impact West Africa's cocoa-producing areas.
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.
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