Nepal is a leader in returning forest tenure rights to locals, but regulations undermine communities’ attempts to establish businesses from forest products.
Climate change negotiations and agriculture: Where are we going? In many developing countries, evidence and political will converge in agriculture sector.
Forest landscape restoration took the spotlight at a high-level workshop at IUCN Congress in Hawai‘i, relating to Bonn Challenge pledgers and partners.
Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – Just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be focusing on this year. Stockholm — known […]
Mining activities, whether artisanal or industrial in scale, result in two types of environmental and social impacts: primary impacts and secondary impacts.
Originally published at Thomson Reuters Sustainability The author Tim Christophersen is Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP is a coordinating partner of the Global Landscapes Forum and just joined forces with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to reforest 150 million hectares of land – […]
