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Meetings covered by IISD Reporting Services - African
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Eighth African Union Summit
22-30 January 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ARC Vol. 7 No.
1; 7 February 2007: The eighth African Union (AU) Summit
took place at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, from 22-30 January 2007. The Summit included
sessions of: the Permanent Representatives Committee, from
22-23 January; the Executive Council, from 25-26 January;
and the AU Assembly, from 29-30 January. The main themes of
the Summit were “Science, Technology and Scientific Research
for Development” and “Climate Change in Africa.”
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10th meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP-10)
30 January - 1 February 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
ARC Vol. 8 No.
1; 4 February 2007: The 10th meeting of the Poverty
Environment Partnership (PEP-10) took place from 30 January
to 1 February 2007, at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya, and
was jointly hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
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Sixth Ordinary Session of the African Ministers’ Council on
Water (AMCOW-6)
28-31 May 2007, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
ARC Vol. 4 No.
6; 4 June 2007: The sixth Ordinary Session of the
African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW-6) took place
from 30-31 May 2007, at the Palais du Parlement, in
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Attended by ministers and
government representatives, together with issue experts from
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
the meeting focused on strengthening regional and
international cooperation and solidarity to address the
African water and sanitation crisis and to make progress on
achieving the water-related targets of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and the World Summit on Sustainable
Development.
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First High-level Biofuels Seminar in Africa
30 July - 1 August 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ARC Vol. 9 No.
1; 4 August 2007: The first High-level Biofuels Seminar
in Africa was held at the African Union (AU) headquarters in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 30 July - 1 August 2007. The
seminar, held under the theme of “Sustainable Biofuels
Development in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges,” was
jointly organized by the African Union Commission, the
Government of Brazil and the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization. It brought together some 250
participants representing AU member states, African regional
economic communities, UN agencies, the scientific community,
the private sector and non-government organizations.
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Anglophone Africa Subregional Workshop on the Review of and
Capacity-Building for the Implementation of the Programme of
Work on Protected Areas under the Convention on Biological
Diversity
13-16 August 2007, Cape Town, South Africa
ARC Vol. 5 No.
2; 19 August 2007: The Anglophone Africa Subregional
Workshop on the Review of and Capacity Building for the
Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas
(the Workshop), under the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD), convened from 13-16 August 2007, in Cape Town, South
Africa. One in a series initiated in response to the request
of the eighth meeting of the CBD Conference of the Parties
(COP-8), the Workshop sought to review and strengthen
capacity for the implementation of the Programme of Work on
Protected Areas (PoWPA), and was attended by 75
participants, including government representatives from 20
countries, representatives of five non-governmental
organizations and nine indigenous community representatives.
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Fifth meeting of the African Committee on Sustainable
Development (ACSD-5)
22-25 October 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ARC Vol. 10 No.
2; 30 October 2007: The fifth meeting of the African
Committee on Sustainable Development (ACSD-5), which
included the African Regional Implementation Meeting for the
sixteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable
Development (CSD-16), took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
from 22-25 October 2007. Organized by the UN Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA), the meeting convened under the
theme “Transforming African Agriculture and Rural Economy
for Sustainable Development.”
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