Why healthy soils and forests are key to climate protection and prosperity
DW | 20 Dec 2017
What links climate change, poverty and migration? The Global Landscapes Forum addresses how land-use is central to global challenges that are more interconnected than many of us realize. What does the politics of how we use land have to do with climate change? And with poverty, conflict and migration? These are the questions being addressed […]
European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development
Platform from Africa | 22 Dec 2017
19-20 December 2017. Bonn. The Global Landscapes Forum brought together 1000 attendees from 103 countriesin the World Conference Center in Bonn. In total, 21,610,513 people were reached across social media and fully 51,000 people tuned in live from 114 different countries to connect, learn, share and act around our planet’s greatest climate and development challenges.
Solheim: ‘Change can happen much faster than we think’
DW | 20 Dec 2017
Despite pressing environmental problems such as pollution and the extinction crisis, there are still plenty of reasons to be optimistic, UNEP chief Erik Solheim tells DW. DW: What would you say are the greatest environmental problems we’re currently facing? Erik Solheim: One is pollution, and pollution of course is the key also to climate change; if we […]
UNEP chief seeks action on climate change
The Nation | 21 Dec 2017
The language of environmentalists are boring and uninspiring; people cannot be bored into action, only excitement and inspiration can create action and change people’s behaviour, Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says Erik Solheim, has said. People are hungry for news about the risks of climate change but experts are alienating them with […]
Felipe Calderón: “Desarrollo y sustentabilidad no se excluyen mutuamente”
Conexioncop22 | 20 Dec 2017
El ex-presidente de México, Felipe Calderón, se encuentra en Bonn como ponente en la conferencia “Global Landscapes Forum”, sobre el desarrollo ecológico de paisajes sustentables. DW lo entrevistó y sostuvo, entre otros temas, que desde la agricultura hasta el manejo de bosques, se pueden generar tasas de crecimiento económico altas.
Stop ‘Boring’ Language to Spur Climate Action, UN Environment Chief Says
Jakarta Globe | 20 Dec 2017
Bonn. 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 (19/12). Erik Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said one of the most searched terms on the Internet this year was […]
Climate change may boost rain in Kenyan river basin
Iran Daily | 20 Dec 2017
Kenya’s Tana River Basin, a major source of hydroelectric power, food and fresh water, may see its annual rainfall increase as much as 43 percent by the end of the century because of climate change, scientists said. The river basin, stretching from the center to the east of the country, is home to eight million […]
Expresidente Felipe Calderón asegura que el mayor desafío en México es el Estado de derecho
AméricaEconomía | 19 Dec 2017
Bonn. El expresidente de México Felipe Calderón se encuentra en Bonn, Alemania, como ponente en la conferencia “Global Landscapes Forum”, sobre el desarrollo ecológico de paisajes sustentables. Entrevistado por DW, el exmandatario expresó que el mayor reto actualmente en México es la seguridad y el Estado de derecho. “Hay un débil Estado de derecho, un débil cumplimiento de la ley”, […]
Felipe Calderón: “el mayor desafío en México es el Estado de derecho”
DW | 19 Dec 2017
El expresidente de México Felipe Calderón se halla en Bonn, como ponente en la conferencia “Global Landscapes Forum”, sobre el desarrollo ecológico de paisajes sustentables. DW lo entrevistó sobre ese y otros temas.