27 August 2008: The third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term
Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the first part of the
sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working
Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 21-27
August 2008, in Accra, Ghana.
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28 August 2008: In this report, subtitled “Health equity
through action on the social determinants of health,” the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health calls for
closing the health gap in a generation and outlines the requirements for developing
solutions to the inequities between and within countries.
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27 August 2008: This toolkit is aimed at UN Country Teams
and other development agents, to provide guidance on how to engage indigenous
peoples and include their perspectives in development processes.
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26 August 2008: Climate change was among the topics
discussed in official talks between Han Seung-soo, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Korea, and Srgjan Kerim, President of the UN General Assembly
(UNGA), on 25 August 2008.
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25 August 2008: Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and
the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Executive Director, spoke on risk and
climate change at the International Disaster Risk Conference (IDRC), which
convened in Davos, Switzerland, from 25-29 August 2008.
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28 August 2008: The Africa Carbon Forum will take place from
3-5 September 2008, in Dakar, Senegal. At the thirteenth Conference of the
Parties to the UNFCCC in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007, the Secretariat of
the UNFCCC announced its intent to convene the first Africa Carbon Forum, in
collaboration with the International Emissions Trading Association and the
partner agencies of the Nairobi Framework, including the UN Development
Programme, UN Environment Programme, World Bank and African Development Bank.
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27 August 2008: The seventh issue of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Technology Watch Briefing Report, entitled “Next-Generation Networks and Energy Efficiency,” has been released.
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25 August 2008: In a statement to the third Session of the
Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
(AWG-LCA 3), which met in Accra, Ghana, from 21-27 August 2008, the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) addressed the various
approaches and options under which greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
international civil aviation can be effectively addressed.
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25 August 2008: In a statement to the First Part of the
Sixth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I
Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP6), which took place in Accra, Ghana,
from 21-27 August 2008, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
referred to recent developments in the field of environmental protection,
including: progress made by ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental
Protection in prioritizing and intensifying all activities related to
greenhouse gas emissions (GHG); and the holding of the second meeting of the
Group on International Aviation and Climate Change, where the possible
establishment of short, medium and long term goals for fuel burn was discussed.
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August 2008: The twelfth meeting of the Joint Implementation
(JI) Supervisory Committee will take place from 11–12 September 2008, on the UN
Campus in Bonn, Germany.
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