CEESP News: by Mersie Ejigu, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ CEESP Africa Region Vice Chair
The 2019 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) expressed commitment to upscaling sound ecosystem restoration and natural resource governance schemes.Â
This bodes well for CEESP's…
Making a pledge to the Bonn Challenge to bring landscapes under restoration is an important first step, but that may actually be the easiest part. The intertwined, complex moving parts between making that pledge and actually restoring landscapes to…
This week we launched the 2nd and final public consultation on Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Global Nature-based Solutions for Societal needs – climate change, disasters, food and water security, health, social and economic development. On Tuesday 17th September a live around the world day for your say - #day4yoursay…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continue to influence global development policy in the coming decade. Under SDG15, Target 15.3 calls to “combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land…
Palm oil dominates the headlines, and for good reason. It’s a commodity that many of us depend on, yet it takes its toll on whole landscapes – famously triggering the destruction of diverse forests to convert into palm plantations. There is no…
Since the 1997 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥-World Bank study 'Large Dams: Learning from the Past, Looking at the Future' and the subsequent establishment of the World Commission on Dams, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ recognises dams are, for better or worse, an integral part of a post fossil-fuel future in which energy needs are met for all.…
Of the 8,300 million tonnes of plastic produced from 1950 to 2015, only 7% has been recycled while more than half has been discarded in landfill or leaked into the environment. Companies, organisations, and governments are taking measures to tackle plastic pollution. However, there is currently…
As part of the Mekong WET project, recent climate change vulnerability assessments conducted by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ in Cambodia revealed that wetland communities in three Ramsar sites would face increasing water scarcity issues, extensive crop damage, and a dramatic loss of…
The Mekong WET Project, funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI), recently published climate change vulnerability assessment reports for Bang Pakong River Wetland in Chachoengsao Province and Kaper Estuary, Laemson Marine National Park, Kraburi Estuary in Ranong Province in Thailand…