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Inside this Issue:
Finally!
Youth Cafeteria Campaign, Latest Update
The Way Forward: Open, Unscripted and Interactive
NGO Input at the Ministerial Dialogue with Representatives of the Major Groups
Is your suitcase heavier upon return?
IISD's Climate Knowledge Management Project
While We Were Talking
Cracking the Peanuts or the Coconuts?
CSD Then and Now
Don’t Worry. Do Something.
Macro Impact from Local Level
A Crisis Crossing Continents
Efficient Use of Water for Irrigation
Food for Thought: “They Shoot Our Heroes, Don’t They.”
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Friday, May 16, 2008
New tool for climate change policymakers:
IISD's Climate Knowledge
Management Project with the
CEB and UNCG Launches Today
Take note and keep up to date on all that goes on in the world of sustainable development and international processes.
By: Kimo Goree, Director of IISD's Reporting Services
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in collaboration with the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) and the UN Communications Group (UNCG) Task Force on Climate Change, has launched a new tool for climate change policymakers.
CLIMATE-L.ORG is a knowledge management project that provides information to decision makers on the actions of international organizations in response to the challenge of climate change. In one location users can find the most updated knowledgebase with climate change policy and program data from throughout the international community and specifically with information on United Nations activities provided in cooperation with the UN system agencies, funds and programs through the UN Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Secretariat and the UN Communications Group (UNCG) Task Force on Climate Change.
Tracking international processes and events is something that IISD's Reporting Services (IISDRS) has been doing since 1992. Through our website, Linkages, and in our publications, like the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Linkages Update and the MEA Bulletin, IISD has developed an expertise in providing neutral and timely information to the international policy community, pulling together bits and pieces into easily accessible publications and on the Linkages website. IISD has also developed a powerful tool by creating the CLIMATE-L listserve with more than 15,000 subscribers, reaching key climate policy makers and providing a useful communications channel for the climate policy community.
The CLIMATE-L.ORG project supports the work done by the UN Communications Group Task Force on Climate Change and the UN Department for Public Information to build the UN Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change.
CLIMATE-L.ORG's focus is on information for policy makers, rather than the general public, providing more in-depth and policy-oriented materials of a political, technical and scientific nature that will assist the diplomatic and policy community as they prepare a post-2012 agreement.
Phase I (April - June 2008) of the CLIMATE-L.ORG project has been supported by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with special assistance from the CEB Secretariat.
CLIMATE-L.ORG
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