May 2012 Blog Posts (32)

Meeting took place to address Small Island Developing States position for the UN Conference on Sustainable development in Rio+20, goal to Achieving Sustainable Energy for All.

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A new platform aims to promote water solutions. Watershed Connect supports projects that recognize the linked economic and ecological benefits of healthy natural water resources.

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Government ministers, heads of UN agencies, business leaders, senior scientists and other experts in sustainable development are set to show that a fairer, greener world is a realistic vision when they speak at a major conference convened by the International Institute for Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro on 16-17 June.

IIED has designed ‘Fair ideas: sharing solutions for a sustainable planet’ to share expertise, ideas and practical experiences from…

Dear colleagues,

the citizen participation project „World Wide Views on Biodiversity“ (WWViews) might fit your interests, so we want to inform you about it in time. WWViews will take place at the 15th of September 2012 in about 30 countries on five continents. Hundred citizens per country deliberate in a daylong meeting on what has to be done to halt the worldwide loss of biological diversity. The project was created by the Danish Board of Technology…

Working closely with partners in Brazil and elsewhere, IIED will host an information-sharing event on the 16 and 17 June. Fair ideas will open up a space for researchers and practitioners working for a greener, fairer world to add important knowledge, experience and momentum to the official summit.

To register (free) or read the full conference programme, visit the Fair…

Press release

New Haven, Conn, USA: Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities.

The new report Giving REDD+ Life, examines the relationship between REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest…

New recommendations by the 16th session of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice address marine and coastal biodiversity, and biodiversity and climate change.

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Some of the main proposals in a draft text for negotiation at a UN sustainable development conference next month are being watered down at informal talks in New York, observers say, heightening fears the summit will fail to deliver.

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 A new project has been launched to address the narrowing variety of foods in diets, titled the “Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project” focus on sustainable use of components of biodiversity.

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Governments from more than 90 countries have agreed to establish an independent panel of scientists to assess the very latest research on the state of the planet’s fragile ecosystems.

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Soil sealing – the covering of the ground by an impermeable material – is one of the main causes of soil degradation in the EU putting biodiversity at risk, increasing the risk of flooding.

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As the EU failed to meet its biodiversity target for 2010, biodiversity conservation should now be built into key EU policies and environmentally harmful subsidies should be phased out by 2020.

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A document has been published by Asia Indigenous people pact (AIPP) a document which focuses on several aspects of forest conservation, biodiversity and livelihood.

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According to a new study, some of the world’s poorest people would gain $500bn per year if the service they provide through conserving natural habitats was given an economic value.

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This article is in the series of responses to ongoing discussion on ‘Mountain Perspective’ at http://bit.ly/yYlbpl . It looks in to the aspects of mountain perspective and specificities as mentioned by Dr. N. S. Jodha during 1992s, and compares them in present  context.

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Tagged as fragile, remote and marginal, these three aspects have featured prominently in discussions and deliberations concerning development in the mountains in our part of the world. Retired but active academician N S Jodha, a former senior staff with the Kathmandu-based Integrated Center for International Mountain Development, has been credited for using these three features to define, what in popular parlance is called, ‘the mountain…

A new report by Friends of the Earth reveals widespread violations of people’s rights and environmental destruction from a land grab project initially funded by the World Bank in Uganda.

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With upwards of two billion extra mouths to feed in the coming decades, food security has become a mantra in debates about Europe’s farm-support programme.

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A recent paper points out how regulatory frameworks and monitoring programmes still fail to address the full range of pollutants potentially damaging for Europe’s seas.

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There are now 11 thousands species, plants and animals introduced into a different than their own environment, between 10% and 15% of these are a danger for the environment.

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