Green Planting / Environment

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Worldview Mission 1st African Regional Youth Green Summit 2014.

1^st– 4^th October, 2014.

Dear partners,

This is to inform you of the ongoing progress so far as shared by the event tasks Team as headed by Teens Uganda in preparation of the !st African Regional youth Green Summit sheduled for the 1^st– 4^th October. Among other things taken into consideration are the meetings and stake holders events, meetings, membership participation and exhibitions as well as pending items.

We are glad to share that many partners have confirmed their support and participation in the event as is far described in the write up attached. Please continue to hare this information with your networks partners and any other interested institutions that you may be aware of for the cause of the summit.

Please note that your participation is very important to the summit as well noted that we all operate on very dynamic issues yet many of them are cross cutting and share similar perspectives in our advocacy programs and service delivery.

Your comments and positive feed back are highly appreciated

Best Regards,

Richard Hamba

Programme Rep/E.D – TEENS Uganda, Country Rep – Worldview Mission C/P – UST-Network Tel: +256 392 614896 Mob: 712/702 675138, 775 446670 Skype: hamba.richard Facebook: hamba richard

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1st African Regional Youth Green Summit 2014

Dear partners,

Your comments and positive feed back are highly appreciated

Summit Brochure 1 / 1st African Regional Youth Green Summit / Green Economies and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Green Economies and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation / Conept note Human Rights and climate Change

Richard Hamba

Programme Rep/E.D – TEENS Uganda, Country Rep – Worldview Mission C/P – UST-Network Tel: +256 392 614896 Mob: 712/702 675138, 775 446670 Skype: hamba.richard Facebook: hamba richard

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Update UN Safe Planet Campaign – Transitions Nairobi

Dear Community of Educators,

Our side event for CSD 19 we had the honor of partnering with the UN Safe Planet Campaign and working with then Executive Secretary of the Stockholm Convention, Donald Cooper, now with the UNFCCC working on mitigation/ finance and Michael Stanley-Jones, communications. The event was a major success and we continue to follow the progress on this important initiative. We send a hearty “Congratulations” to Michael on his new position joining the staff of the Joint UN Development Programme – UN Environment Programme “Poverty-Environment Initiative bringing his many skills and talents in communications, outreach and knowledge management working on the pro-poor sustainable development agenda worldwide.

Colleagues in Nairobi, Kenya, welcome Michael and his wife on our behalf.

All the best,

Pam Puntenney and Bremley Lyngdoh

UN SD Education Caucus Co-Chairs

Co-Coordinators Climate Change

Dr. P. J. Puntenney

Environmental & Human Systems Management

1989 West Liberty

Ann Arbor, MI 48103 USA

E-mail: pjpunt@umich.edu

Cell: (734) 330-0238

Voice/Fax: (734) 994-3612

Safe Planet welcomes new campaign focal point Charlie Avis, BRS bids farewell to campaign co-creator Michael S. Jones

On 23 August, Safe Planet: the United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes´ co-creator Michael S. Jones departed Geneva to move to Nairobi where he joins the staff of the Joint UN Development Programme-UN Environment Programme (UNDP-UNEP) Poverty-Environment Initiative. Michael will be responsible for communications, outreach and knowledge management in the Initiative´s Poverty-Environment Facility, supporting the pro-poor sustainable development agenda globally.

Safe Planet welcomes Charlie Avis, a former Poverty-Environment Initiative Programme Officer, who has taking up the post of Public Information Officer of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, and serves as focal point of the UN Safe Planet Campaign as of 15 August. He may be reached at charles.avis@unep.org.

“Since its launch in February 2010, Safe Planet Campaign has made a major contribution to raising awareness of the challenges we face from hazardous chemicals and wastes, and the role of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in presenting solutions to the challenges. It has also been a huge and unforgettable part of both my professional and personal life,” Michael said.

“I intend to remain active in the Campaign as a friend and advisor. I look forward to expanding its reach within the environmental justice community I now serve in my new capacity.”

Jana Hajduchova, Friend of Safe Planet, and Michael Jones are relocating to Nairobi

Michael´s new assignment is effective as of 15 August 2014. He remained at the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS) in Geneva as part of the hand-over of his former duties to Charlie Avis.

As part of the transition, BRS has migrated SafePla.net website of Friends of Safe Planet to the Secretariat’s servers in Geneva. SafePla.net currently serves as respository of the Campaign´s activities from its inception through Rio +20 Conference in June 2012.

“Safe Planet Campaign continues through the strong commitment and support of its members, and remains an integral part of the communication and outreach effort of the BRS Secretariat. I am leaving behind a strong and talented team at BRS and many wondrous memories of the work we have accomplished together. I wish to thank everyone at the Secretariat and within the UN Safe Planet community for all their kindness, enthusiasm and support during these past 4 ½ years,” Michael added.

For the latest information on the Safe Planet Campaign, visit the Safe Planet Community on Facebook:www.facebook.com/safeplanet

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“Call For Input” RIO+FANRPAN Partnership on Gender and CSa and Invitation to Participate in our survey

Dear Colleagues:

The World Centre for Sustainable Development (The RIO+ Centre ) and the Food and Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) would like to receive inputs from stakeholders in the five countries targeted by our project on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). The five countries are: Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

We have partnered in order to strengthen social outcomes of green growth and climate-smart solutions, such as climate-smart agriculture, at the national and local level.

Your answers will inform the Gender and CSA Assessment being implemented by the RIO+ as well as a Gender and CSA Strategy. These two major outputs from our partnership are intended to inform FANRPAN ‘s and national programming on CSA as well as RIO+ advocacy on sustainable development.

The survey will only take 20 minutes of your time and will close on August 29^th, 2014.

If you have already been contacted, there is no need to complete the survey a second time.

Please email Leisa Perch, Project Manager, at leisa.perch@undp.org, copying Rosaly Byrd at rbyrd@ucsd.edu for more information regarding the survey and to receive the hyper-link to the webpage.

We look forward to sharing the results soon thereafter.

Best regards

Leisa Perch

Policy Specialist/Project Manager – RIO+/FANRPAN Partnership Project

RIO+ Centre

The RIO+ Centre: One of the most important legacies of the RIO+20 Conference, was the launching of the “World Centre for Sustainable Development – The RIO+ Centre”. A partnership of the Government of Brazil and the United Nations Development Programme, based in Rio de Janeiro, we were established in 2013. We work to re-affirm and make actionable the inextricable link between social, economic and environmental policies for the achievement of sustainable development and human wellbeing.

Our partnership with FANRPAN, one of our first, targets the social dimensions of climate and agricultural policy by identifying ways to improve, support and enable innovations for sustainability that create social as well as environmental and economic benefits.

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Climate Justice Ambassadors in Africa

Dear Divine,

I am delighted to inform you that our recent CC:iNet spotlight is about
“How to become a Climate Ambassador” (With a link to the Cameroonian
event): http://unfccc.int/cc_inet/cc_inet/items/3514.php.
We also shared this through our Social Media channels, so feel free to
spread the word via your networks!

Best,

Arne

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Subject: Climate Justice Ambassadors in Africa

Dear Arne,

Hope all is well.

Just wish to share some of my recent activities with you on Climate Change.

Here you have 02 activities from Cameroon:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/plant-for-the-planet/sets/72157644797659274/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/plant-for-the-planet/sets/72157644899972813/

In Uganda : Attached.

Look forward working with you all and getting feed back from you.

Thanks,

Divine

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Dear Community of Educators,

Great collaboration with IUCN Radio Environment . They shall be giving us airtime to braodcast Climate Justice Ambassadors.

http://www.radioenvironnement.org is the IUCN Radio with main Focus Enviromental issues.
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