The activity is held to strengthen protection for the genetics of local seeds, along with traditional culture and values in the ways they are cultivated.
This year the 6th National Congress on Research in Climate Change took place in the city of Tuxtla Guti茅rrez, Chiapas. The 300 participants included representatives of government institutions, nongovernmental institutions and academia, students,鈥
Increasing challenges with disasters are linked to environmental degradation but yet are not always recognized as an environmental emergency. The 6th Africa Regional Platform and 5th High Level Meeting on disaster risk reduction held in Mauritius on 22-25 November 2016 provided the right鈥
CANC脷N (December 3, 2016) 鈥揟oday, Brazil鈥檚 Ministries of Agriculture and the Environment announced their intent to restore and promote sustainable agriculture鈥
Today, the government of Brazil committed to restoring 12 million hectares of deforested land under the Bonn Challenge, joining 38 other countries, associations and companies in the global restoration effort.
With the increasing threats that disasters present there is an urgent need to prioritise proactive disaster risk reduction over reacting to disaster events. The ecosystem approach for disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) is a key element of such preventive measures but still remains underdeveloped鈥
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 will take part in the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cancun, Mexico from 4 - 17 December 2016. Forests are high on the agenda, as one of the four main focus areas from the CBD.
In a new article published in World Development Perspectives, 鈥淕overnance innovations from a multi-stakeholder coalition to implement large-scale Forest Restoration in Brazil,鈥 the authors explore how bringing together the efforts of 270 groups made a stronger impact on forest landscape鈥
Over the last decade, conflicts between humans and elephants have been a serious concern in Bangladesh, especially near the central-north border with India. Collaboration between the two neighbours and community-based initiatives can play a crucial role in managing such challenges.
The 2016 Forum of Marine Protected Areas is about to start聽in Tangier (Morocco) from November 28th to聽December 1st, and will welcome more than four hundred participants who will assess the progress made on marine protected areas (MPAs) across the Mediterranean region in the last years.