October 2006: CCM representatives
attend the Commonwealth Foundation workshop on Preparing
for Change
The workshop, set in Mahé, the Seychelles on 9-12 October
2006 was co-sponsored by the Seychelles government and the
Commonwealth Secretariat. It aimed to investigate Adaptive
Strategies for Climate Change and Disaster Management in the
Commonwealth. CCM representatives from Kenya, Mauritius and
the Seychelles attended the meeting in order to raise awareness
of the key role of national met. services in climate change
and adaptation.
Read
the workshop report from Samuel Mwangi Gathumbi (Kenya)
(PDF, 117 kb)
November 2005: CCM representatives
attend CHOGM 2005
Two representatives from the CCM attended CHOGM, the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as well as the Commonwealth
People's Forum (CPF) and satellite meetings from 20 to 27 November
in Malta.
More
about the CHOGM 2005 meeting
October 2005: CCM is asked to
co-organise a Climate Change workshop at the Commonwealth
Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM)
Mark Collins, the Director of the Commonwealth Foundation,
has invited the CCM to co-organise a Climate Change workshop
in conjunction with the Commonwealth Foundation and Action
for a Global Climate Community. The workshop, which aims to
be the first step towards a Commonwealth Plan of Action for
Climate Change to be adopted at the next CHOGM, will take
place during the People Forum's Meeting at CHOGM 2005 in Malta
in November.
See
the workshop flyer
September-October
2005: CCM representative help drafting a message for the Committee
of the Whole
Prior to the CHOGM meeting in November, the Committee
of the Whole, a gathering of Commonwealth Senior Officials,
met in London to draft the CHOGM
communiqué.
CCM was invited, along with Civil Society Organisations,
to draft a message to be presented to the Committee of the
Whole for inclusion in the Communiqué. The CCM's input
focused on the importance of mitigating climate change &
its impact as well as on disaster mitigation.
23 September 2005: CCM accreditation
to the Commonwealth
Following formal application, the CCM has been accredited
as an Associated Organisation of the Commonwealth. This, in
turn, allows the CCM to become accredited to this year's Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which will be held in
Malta in November.
August 2005: CCM statement to
be presented to the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) 2005
Following the Conference of Commonwealth Meteorologists
2005, a statement highlighting the role of National Meteorological
and Hydrological Services in disaster mitigation and climate
change studies was prepared. The statement will be presented
to Commonwealth Senior Officials at the Committee of the Whole
in London in October then at the Foreign Ministers meeting
and CHOGM 2005 in Malta in November.
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