November 5, 2010 (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) – The remote village of Nahu, located in West Areare - deep in the province of Malaita in the Solomon Islands - is still in jovial celebration following the commissioning of solar lights installed in all 39 homes in the small village on Tuesday 2nd November 2010.
Governments meeting at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) have approved a step change for biodiversity: a new Strategic Plan for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on the planet’s biodiversity and take urgent action to save…
The Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ today announced they had established the Save Our Species (SOS) initiative with more than $US10 million in financing commitments and called on businesses to help build the biggest global species conservation fund by 2015.
This report highlights the work undertaken by the Oceania Regional Office in the year 2009 and five months into 2010.
Several government ministries in Samoa are engaged in a week long gender mainstreaming training this week in the attempt to strengthen their project implementation, particularly renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, and community level interaction.
 Forest finance
Livelihoods and landscapes: So far, the expectations of PES as a market-based solution for conservation and development have not been met. Feature: Do public goods always have to remain public? REDD: We cannot wait to act on REDD-plus. Local forests: Why, despite…For the first time scientists have put a figure on how much it would cost to learn about the conservation status of millions of species, some of which have yet to be identified. The price tag is US$60 million, according to a team of scientists, including those from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ and Conservation…
The International Year of Biodiversity has been launched at a ceremony in Berlin with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel warning that the world will face "enormous costs" if no action is taken to tackle climate change and to secure biodiversity.