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MEPIELAN E-Bulletin is a digital academic and practitioner newsletter of the MEPIELAN Centre, launched in 2010.  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 News

Climate Change

Doha Climate Change Conference: A Transitional Conference in UN Climate Negotiations

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, was held from 26 November to 8 December 2012. It involved a number of events, including the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 8).

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Environmental Governance Regimes

The Caspian Countries Sign the Land-Based Sources and Activities Protocol (LBSA Protocol) to the Tehran Convention

The Caspian countries have taken an important step towards the specific operation and implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, 2003, The Tehran Convention, by adopting and signing one more Protocol to this Convention, The Protocol for the Protection of the Caspian Sea against Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities.

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Climate Change

CBD COP 11 Adopts Interim Target and Roadmap for Resource Mobilization

The eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held from 8 to19 October 2012, in Hyderabad, India. Approximately 6,000 delegates representing parties and other governments, UN agencies, intergovernmental, non-governmental, indigenous and local community organizations, academia and the private sector participated in the meeting.

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