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National Focal Points’ Meeting
Inter-American Forum on Environmental Law (FIDA)
Brasilia, May 8-9, 2008
The
National Focal Points’ meeting was held pursuant to
a resolution of the Inter-American Commission on
Sustainable Development CIDS/CIDI/RES.3 (III-0/02); the
mandates issued by OAS Member States in the
Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development (PIDS
2006-2009), and the Declaration of the First
Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Level
Authorities on Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz
2006).
The
meeting
agenda was based on consultations with the OAS-DSD
Environmental Law Advisory Group, and identified
existing and possible areas of work that are open to
recommendations from the National Focal Points.
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Payment for Ecological Services
To respond
to trade-related capacity building development needs in the
area of environmental management, the DSD is working towards
improving market-based approaches to the conservation of
biological diversity, through the support of Payment for
Ecological Service Payments (PES).
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Former
DSD Director is Canada’s New Commissioner of Environment and
Sustainable Development.
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The
Department of Communication and Institutional Image in collaboration
with the DSD and Summits of the
Americas are encouraging everyone to follow 10 steps to “COMMIT
TO GREEN” on April 22nd. Also, read about the “Greening
the OAS Strategy” to promote the greening of the GSB building.
OAS
joins forces with Caribbean to fight climate change.
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Request
for Proposals
for digitizing invasive species data under IABIN Project
DSD
supports the 12th International Conference on environmental Law: Climate
Change, Sustainable Energy and Biodiversity. Sao Paolo. June 1-5, 2008.


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May 12-15, 2008. Quito.
III
International Workshop Natural Protected Areas Information Network
Andes Amazon.
Agenda
June, 4
2008.
Sao Paulo, Brasil. Workshop: Trends in the Implementation of
Payments for Environmental Services in the Americas.
June 2008. Meeting
of the Regional Coordination Committee for SAICM Implementation.
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