Dear ENB Reader; We are pleased to announce that on 14 March 2014 the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) signed a new Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) relating to reporting services for UNEP and UNEP-Administered MEAs. Under this PCA, IISD and UNEP agree to provide Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of the UN Environment Assembly of UNEP, CITES, CBD, the chemicals conventions (PIC, POPS, Basel), Montréal Protocol, CMS, IPBES and other UNEP meetings through the end of 2014.
IISD and UNEP have agreed to jointly undertake fundraising activities to ensure that funding is available for coverage of these UNEP and UNEP-Administered Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) meetings in 2014. The PCA provides a mechanism for governments to make direct contributions to UNEP or earmark funding to UNEP to be made available to IISD for activities under this agreement. At present the PCA has enough funding from UNEP for the Open Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives, which was held this week in Nairobi, and for coverage of the UN Environment Assembly in June. Moving forward, we are urgently soliciting specific funding to provide ENB coverage for several other meetings (CITES and CBD) to be held in the next few weeks. The first of many events included under the PCA are the meetings of the CITES Plants Committee, the Animals Committee and the joint sessions of these committees, scheduled for 28 April through 8 May 2014 in Veracruz, México. We currently do not have the funding available for coverage of these meetings. If we do not receive confirmation of funding this week we will not be able to publish the ENB at these meetings. IISD has received letters of endorsement for our proposal to provide Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of this meeting from CITES Executive Secretary John Scanlon http://www.iisd.ca/funding/2014/IISD-2014-03-13.pdf and from Hesiquio Benítez, Director General de Cooperación Internacional e Implementación at CONABIO in México. http://www.iisd.ca/funding/2014/DGCII_152-14.pdf Donors are now able to support us in two ways: · Provide funding directly to IISD for coverage of the meetings; · Provide funding or earmark funding through the new financing mechanism available at UNEP and the PCA. If you wish to use the new UNEP-IISD PCA to fund us for this or other meetings, please contact Mr. Christophe Bouvier [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or Angeline Djampou [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> . Donors for CITES meetings can alternatively contact Mr. Jonathan Barzdo [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Our complete funding proposal for the CITES Animals Committee and Plants Committee meeting<http://www.iisd.ca/funding/2014/Specific_Funding_for_ENB_coverage_of_CITES_AC27_PC21_Joint_21_feb_2014.pdf> can be found at http://www.iisd.ca/funding/2014/Specific_Funding_for_ENB_coverage_of_CITES_AC27_PC21_Joint_21_feb_2014.pdf . IISD's funding proposal for all of 2014 can be found at http://www.iisd.ca/funding/2014/ENB_Core_Funding_Proposal_18_March.pdf For more information on this proposal or on ways your government can provide funding for the activities under the new PCA between IISD and UNEP, please contact me or Ms. Jennifer Covert, Senior Manager for Development and Executive Coordination [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Thank you for your time in reading this letter. We appreciate your ongoing support of IISD and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin and hope to see you at more meetings in the near future. Regards, Kimo [SIGNATUR] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI Vice President, Reporting Services and United Nations Liaison International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) -- United Nations Office 300 E 56th St. Apt. 11D - New York, NY 10022 USA Direct Line: +1 973 273 5860 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Mobile phone (new!): +12128107701 Skype: kimogoree Where: 28 March - 9 April West Texas (cycling), 12-15 Ottawa Notice:This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the author. ___________________________________________________________________________________ - You are currently subscribed to enb as: [email protected] - View enb Forum: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=enb - Membership options / Unsubscribe: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=enb ___________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to all other IISD Reporting Services' free newsletters and lists for environment and sustainable development policy professionals at http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________
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