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…
By Julia Torres Ventura and Elizabeth Macpherson - Colombian cyclist Egan Arley Bernal Gómez and this year’s winner of the Tour de France has captured the world’s attention as the first Latin American to don its leading yellow jersey. What readers may not know is that Colombia also wears the…
By Patricia Parkinson - WCEL and CEESP members discussed the importance of cultural impact assessments as a critical tool for environmental planning at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Oceania Regional Conservation Forum.Â
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.…
On 1 August 2019, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL Deputy Chair, Denise Antolini, sat down with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Acting Director General and WCEL Member, Grethel Aguilar, at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Oceania Regional Conservation Forum in Suva, Fiji, to discuss the Director General's background as an environmental…
WCEL members Jonathan Liljeblad and Bas Verschuuren co-edited a book featuring indigenous voices and indigenous perspectives on indigenous sacred sites.
By Christina Voigt, Chair of the Climate Change Specialist Group, WCEL - On 7 August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its newest Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas…
CEESP News: by Dr Lea Scherl and Elise Huffer (CEESP Regional Vice Chair, Oceania).
Side event by CEESP members at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Oceania Regional Forum looked at the issues of Social Development, Governance, and Wellbeing in Natural Resource Management
WCEL Member Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi and Dr. Zibima Tubodenyefa have released a report on environmental risk management in Nigeria's oil and gas sector.
Over 200 experts, specialists, senior Government officials, community and youth representatives from 24 countries of Eastern and Southern Africa declared a call for action to secure a future for Nature, People and Future generations in Africa, at the ESARO Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) held…