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MEPIELAN E-Bulletin is a digital academic and practitioner newsletter of the MEPIELAN Centre, launched in 2010.ย  It features insight articles, reflective opinions, specially selected documents and cases, book reviews as well as news on thematic topics of direct interest of MEPIELAN Centre and on the activities and role of MEPIELAN Centre. Its content bridges theory and practice perspectives of relational international law, international environmental law and participatory governance , and international negotiating process, thus serving the primary goal of Centre: to develop an integrated, inter-disciplinary, relational, context-related and sustainably effective governance approach creating, protecting and advancing international common interest for the present and future generations. Providing a knowledge- and information-sharing platform and a scholarly forum, the Bulletin promotes innovative ideas and enlightened critical views, contributing to a broader scholarly debate on important issues of international common interest. The audience of the Bulletin includes academics, practitioners, researchers, university students, international lawyers, officials and personnel of international organizations and institutional arrangements, heads and personnel of national authorities at all levels (national, regional and local), and members of the civil society at large.

List of 2012 Thematic News

Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030

Initial Discussions on the โ€œZero Draftโ€ of the Outcome Document for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20)

A three-day round of initial negotiations over the proposed (zero draft) outcome document for Rio +20 entitled โ€œThe Future we Wantโ€ was concluded at the UN Headquarters in New York on 27 January 2012. Member States, UN agencies and a variety of civil society actors participated in the first informal round of negotiations in the lead-up to Rio+20.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Mar 20, 2012 | 3 min read

Climate Change

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress Close for Signature

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety were closed for signature and have received 92 and 51 signatures respectively.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Mar 20, 2012 | 3 min read

Environmental Governance Regimes

ฮคhe 12th Special Session of UNEP’s Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum

ฮคhe 12th Special Session of UNEP's Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-12 /GMEF) was held from 20 to 22 February 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. Nearly 1000 participants from 150 countries, including ministers, representatives of UN agencies, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and industry attended the Session.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Mar 15, 2012 | 2 min read

Environmental Governance Regimes

MEDITERRANEAN SEA – The COP 17 of the Barcelona Convention Adopts the Paris Declaration

The 17th Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP 17) to the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols was held from 8 to 10 February 2012 in Paris, France. Delegates from 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Union attended the Meeting.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Feb 21, 2012 | 4 min read

Climate Change

Mediterranean Workshop for Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans: Coordinating Local and National Action

The Mediterranean Regional Workshop for Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans: Coordinating Local and National Action in the Mediterranean Basin was co-organized by the City of Montpellier, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and the Japan Fund for Biodiversity.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Feb 13, 2012 | 3 min read

Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030

Capacity Building Workshop for Major Groups and other Stakeholders on the Road to Rio+20 Negotiating Process

In preparation for the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) organizes a series of preparatory meetings in order to promote diverse and effective participation of all major groups at all stages of the global negotiating process concerning sustainable development.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Feb 10, 2012 | 4 min read

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