The 7 Reasons Why Environmental Restoration Lags Worldwide
Triple Pundit | 22 Dec 2017
According to the World Resources Institute (WRI), one-quarter of the world’s land mass has suffered environmental degradation over the past 50 years. The costs have totaled at least $6.3 trillion in lost ecosystem services; on the flip side, there is massive investment potential in repairing all these lands. The challenge, however, is finding ways to […]
Consensus grows: climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals
Mongabay | 21 Dec 2017
Attendees at the annual Global Landscape Forum conference in Bonn, Germany, this week sought approaches for implementing “climate-smart” agricultural practices to help keep global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. Some 40 percent of the earth’s surface is used for food production, with 400 million small farmers worldwide, […]
The Price of Forest Degradation and Biodiversity Loss for Livelihoods
InDepthNews | 22 Dec 2017
BONN (IDN) – Forest degradation and biodiversity loss carry a very heavy price for climate and people’s livelihoods. Restoring forests matters when it comes to growing resilience to climate variation and securing a healthy environment for future generations. This was the main message delivered by experts and community leaders who met in Bonn (December 19-20, […]
Stop ‘boring’ language to spur climate action, U.N. environment chief says
Reuters | 20 Dec 2017
BONN, Germany (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – People are hungry for news about the risks of climate change but experts are alienating them with boring, technical jargon, the United Nations top environment official said on Tuesday. Erik Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said one of the most searched terms on the […]
Sem o setor privado, não será possível restaurar florestas
Oeco | 20 Dec 2017
Bonn, Alemanha – O ano de 2017 viu ocorrerem graves incêndios florestais pelo mundo, furacões arrasarem as ilhas do Caribe e uma seca que rareou a produção de alimentos na porção oriental da África. Em termos de florestas, 2017 foi um ano mais do mesmo, do “business a usual”, admitiu o engenheiro florestal Robert Nasi, […]
Global Landscapes Forum – A Movement Worth Building
Public Now | 22 Dec 2017
Bioversity International participated in several activities during this year’s Global Landscapes Forum held in Bonn on 19-20 December, where the President of Mauritius emphasized the need for an Agrobiodiversity Index. While Christmas spruces, firs and pines may decorate the festive center of Bonn, their future with that of other trees as well as water, soils […]
Brazilian wins Wangari Mathai global award for Amazon forest work
Haki | 22 Dec 2017
Bonn, Germany A Brazilian activist who helped thousands of people in the Amazon rainforest to use their land sustainably won an international environmental award on Wednesday. Despite threats from logging companies, Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva, from the northern state of Pará, has been campaigning for more than a decade for the right of local […]
Global Landscapes Forum enters new phase
Devex | 20 Dec 2017
BONN, Germany — Nearly 1,000 members of the development, environment, and finance communities gathered in Germany this week for what is being hailed as a “new phase” of the Global Landscapes Forum as it breaks away from the United Nations climate conference. Experts in the forestry, food security, sustainable agriculture, and finance sectors as well as politicians, […]
Here’s what you need to know from the Global Landscapes Forum
devex | 22 Dec 2017
BONN, Germany — This year’s Global Landscapes Forum aimed to launch a revitalized “movement,” bringing together a range of actors under one banner to drive progress toward the climate change and sustainable development agendas. But as the dust settles on the conference, attendees have expressed mixed views about the new platform.