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Devoted to
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innovation for
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GRET wishes you
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United Nations Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008 |
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Seminar
The national platform of French international solidarity NGOs
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In the context of its follow-up program of the French EU presidency "Get Europe to make sense: fair & responsible" , Coordination SUD is pleased to invite you to its seminar:
Fight against climate change: what multilateral system beyond 2012? Seminar translated into english Thursday 25 September 2008 from 9.00 am to 5.45 pm Parc départemental de la Bergère Chemin latéral de l'avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier - Cité administrative 2 - 93000 Bobigny
See the draft agenda and the preparatory document
The United Nations Conference on climate change will take place in Poznan, Poland, in December 2008. Prior to this, Coordination SUD is organising, in partnership with GRET (Research and Technological Exchange Group) and CAN-F (Climate Action Network - France), a dialogue gathering governmental leaders, NGOs, international organisations and academics from the North and the South, on what's at stake with the future negotiations.
With the support of the European Commission, the Fondation de France and the General Secretariat of the French EU Presidency.
Please register with
Claire Hernandez : hernandez@coordinationsud.org - Tel. +33(0)1 44 72 84 55
More information on the Program and events Get Europe to make sense: fair & responsible>>>
Coordination SUD – (“SUD” for “Solidarité Urgence Développement” or “Solidarity, Relief, Development”) is the national platform of French international solidarity NGOs. Founded in 1994, it brings together six NGO coalitions (CLONG-Volontariat, CNAJEP, Coordination d’Agen, CRID, FORIM, Groupe Initiatives) and more than 130 French international solidarity NGOs. Together with their partners from countries of the South, these NGOs carry out humanitarian relief, development assistance, environmental protection and promotion of human rights of vulnerable and marginalised people, as well as international solidarity education and advocacy. |
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French NGO Campaign in Favour of an Increase in French Official Development Assistance (ODA) |
While the current food crisis sharply reveals the need for solidarity between rich and poor countries, France, which is preparing to assume presidency of the European Union, is one of the European countries whose ODA fell the most in 2007. French international solidarity organisations are mobilising to push France to fulfil its commitments and demand:
- the adoption of an ODA increase schedule that will allow France to attain the European target of 0.7% of gross national income in 2015; and
- the adoption of a medium-term strategy clarifying France’s development cooperation objectives and returning the reduction of poverty and inequalities to its rightful place.
Download the declaration from Coordination SUD’s website, as well as concord’s 3rd annual Aid Watch report >>> |
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Gret has moved ! |
| On the 7th of January, Gret has moved to the sustainable development centre in the Nogent-sur-Marne Jardin Tropical.
Our new address is:
Gret, Campus du Jardin tropical
45 bis avenue de la Belle Gabrielle
94736 Nogent-sur-Marne
France
Tel : +33 (0)1 70 91 92 00
Fax : +33 (0)1 70 91 92 01
See map of the location on Google maps>>> |
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New publication: Agriculture and the WTO in Africa |
Agriculture and the WTO in Africa: Understand to Act
Coordinated by Marie-Christine Lebret and Arlène Alpha
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) defines rules on the international trade in goods and services, and these rules have consequences for national policies. The choices made at the WTO are of major importance for development, in particular in the field of agriculture, an essential socioeconomic sector in Africa. The purpose of this book is to provide guidance in understanding how the WTO institutions and agreements operate and to provide tools to better understand the stakes behind, and means for, participation in world trade.
for more information or to order>>> |
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