Goascorán, Honduras, April 2018. “The water binational coordination has been very positive. The Sumpul Binational Committee has achieved improve the relationships between the communities of Honduras and El…
Calculating the value for money of investments in restoration is complex – but becoming clearer. Guatemala has made strides in forest landscape restoration, and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ played a small but significantÌýrole. A new publication explores this dynamic…
CEESP News: byÌýFARN - Environment and Natural Resources Foundation
After more than 6 years of intense meetings and negotiations, 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have adopted in San Jose, Costa Rica, the "Escazú Agreement", also known as Agreement on Principle 10. It…
Latin American and Caribbean countries are at the forefront of the first effects of ocean acidification on people’s lives, according to experts who gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia to address the threat of acidification to the region at an event co-organised by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥.
March, 2018. During his first visit to the Headquarters of the Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC) located in San Jose, Costa Rica, the President of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, Dr. Zhang Xinsheng, stressed the…
6 March 2018. Kingston, Jamaica -- The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ (International Union of Conservation of Nature) Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, have renewed a five-year…
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment MethodologyÌýhas provenÌýeffectiveÌýfor countries in planning their restoration actions. A large part of this process consists of comparing the costs and benefits of different restoration options, the consideration of the carbon balance and the analysis of…
In the frame of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, countries stressed the need for linking climate actions with public policies, sub-national governments and indigenous peoples.
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On 24 November 2017, Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, signed a decree creating Mexico'sÌýlargestÌýmarine reserve to date, covering 150,000 square kilometres around the Revillagigedo Archipelago, a volcanic archipelago 240 miles southwest of the Baja Peninsula.
The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States have invested €60 million in the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme over the next six years – making it one of the largest EU biodiversity programmes. The programme is being…