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dgSpecial Collection: Building Momentum for International Climate Change Governance

The urgency of global climate change has put the spotlight on the need for pro-active governance on international environmental policy. Following the 2007 UN General Assembly in September, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called an unprecedented high level meeting on climate change. Even as UN reforms are being implemented, its members are taking steps to put leadership in place for the next round of discussions about climate change measures and global governance for environmental issues. Martha Chouchena-Rojas, head of policy, biodiversity and international agreements for the World Conservation Union, talks with the Development Gateway about some of the governance challenges faced by the UN.

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Development Gateway Special Reports are quarterly online publications focused on themes of critical interest to the international development community. Listed below are previous Special Reports:

Development Effectiveness
› 2004 Year in Review: MDG Series
   December 2004

› Aid and the MDGs: One Year after the MDG...
  September 2006

› Global Partnerships:
   MDG Series
  January 2004

› Governance
   May 2003

› Public Sector Transparency
   April 2005

› South Asian Tsunami
  January 2005

Environment
› Climate Change: MDG Series
   June 2004

› Slum Housing: MDG Series
   September 2004

› Urban Environment:   
   Challenges to Sustainability
   June 2006

› Water and Development
   March 2003

Human Development
› Children's Well-Being: MDG Series
   November 2004

› Education: MDG Series
  August 2003

› Empowering the Next Generation
   December 2006

› Gender Equality:
   MDG Series
   March 2004

› Indigenous Peoples
  July 2003

› Online Education: What Can it Deliver?
   March 2006

› Universal Primary Education
   April 2004

Economic Development
› Entrepreneurship
  July 2004

› Foreign Investment and
  Development
  January 2005

› Intellectual Property
   April 2003

› Labour Migration
  June 2003

› Trade
  September 2003

› Youth Employment: MDG Series
   August 2004

Health and Nutrition
› Female Genital Cutiing
   dgSpecial Collection
  August 2007

› Food Access: MDG Series
  October 2004

› Global Health:
   MDG Series
   March 2004

› HIV/AIDS
  November 2003

› World Hunger
   October 2003

Technology and Development
› How ICT is Working to Reduce
   Poverty ...
   December 2003

› Information Society: The Next Steps
  October 2005