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 people to use land for hunting, fishing and harvesting wild plants.
BONN, Germany (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 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 people to use land for hunting, fishing and harvesting wild plants.
Array ( )Experience and examples from indigenous and local communities are contributing to development of new, practical measures aimed at better integrating landscape restoration with food security and resilient livelihoods, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn heard on Wednesday.
Array ( )BONN, Germany — The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, thinks that most degraded land can be restored in a profitable way — but “creative” approaches are needed to make restoration projects attractive to investors.
Speaking at the Global Landscapes Forum in Germany this week, Calderón talked about the urgent need to restore the world’s degraded land — estimated at 2 billion hectares — and how it can offer governments, companies, and communities both economic and social returns. While stressing the need to preserve pristine forest, Calderón told Devex that “most degraded land could be recovered in a profitable way, in my opinion,” but “you need to be careful that you don’t compete with the nature of the original forest.”
Array ( )Esta semana culminó el Global Landscapes Forum 2017 (GFL), y ConexiónCOP tuvo acceso a la plenaria del cierre del evento, que se desarrolló durante 2 días en Alemania. En la sesión se dieron a conocer avances para lograr paisajes más resilientes al clima, y se resaltó la necesidad de trabajar con todos los sectores y actores del Estado y la sociedad.
Como lo dio a conocer Roberto Nasi, Director General del Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR), en el GLF 2017 participaron 104 países, 900 personas, indígenas de más de 80 organizaciones e indicó que, para los siguientes años, los temas serán finanzas y restauración. “Esto solo es la punta del iceberg. Queremos convertirnos en un movimiento y si todos pensamos lo mismo, esto será posible”, sostuvo Nasi.
Array ( )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.
Erik Solheim — the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) — said one of the most searched terms on the Internet this year was “Hurricane Irma”, a powerful storm that devastated parts of the Caribbean.
Array ( )BONN, Alemanha (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Uma ativista brasileira que ajudou milhares de pessoas da floresta amazônica a usarem suas terras de maneira sustentável conquistou um prêmio ambiental internacional nesta quarta-feira.
Array ( )DW: En su “key note” en el Global Landscapes Forum, Ud. dice que la elección entre el desarrollo y la naturaleza es un falso dilema. Sin embargo, en América Latina el crecimiento se asocia en muchos casos con la minería depredadora y contaminante, los monocultivos y la tala de bosques. ¿Qué salida ve usted esa situación?
Felipe Calderón: En el reporte de la Nueva Economía Climática hemos insistido en que es perfectamente factible tener desarrollo económico y al mismo tiempo reducir las emisiones y preservar y enriquecer el capital natural de nuestros países. En los casos específicos, hay maneras de realizar minería sustentable y restitutiva del medio ambiente. Y también hay claramente no solo la posibilidad, sino la necesidad de hacer agricultura sustentable que no presione la superficie forestal de nuestros países, que no degrade los suelos. Hay tecnología disponible que permitiría hacer la agricultura no solo más productiva, sin también más respetuosa del medio ambiente.
Array ( )ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 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 on Tuesday.
The river basin, stretching from the center to the east of the country, is home to 8 million people. It supplies 70 percent of Kenya’s hydro-power, and 80 percent of Nairobi’s drinking water, according to UN Environment.
Array ( )Tana River Basin set to see increased rainfall after years of drought
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% by the end of the century because of climate change, scientists said on Tuesday. The river basin, stretching from the centre to the east of the country, is home to 8 million people. It supplies 70% of Kenya’s hydro-power, and 80% of Nairobi’s drinking water, according to UN Environment. Scientists say the Tana River Basin, which has experienced drought over the past few years, is likely to get wetter this century, although they do not know for certain by how much.
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