The Bridge Inn, a garage, workshop and beauty salon were among the properties flooded.

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And the work goes on, with Dr Pachauri among those leaving Abu Dhabi for Australia and a workshop on extreme weather events - a topic of real interest to many Australians, but with implications in many corners of the globe.

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At the interregional level, from 20 to 22 February 2006 in Paris, researchers from Fiji, Jamaica and Mauritius were among twenty-eight participants at a joint UNU-UNESCO workshop on 'Setting the Stage for a Strategic Research Agenda for the UNDESD'.

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The 3-day workshop is organized by UNESCO Dakar and will focus on building capacities among CMCs managers and discuss strategies for how to mobilize resources.

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Dr. Ruiz also acknowledged the significance of the topics to be dealt with in the workshop for the "implementation of this convention which is 'still' little known among the peoples of our region, even though they are extremely strong expressing their creative talent".

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