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Ecosystem services provided by high Andean wetlands must be understood in order to ensure their conservation. Therefore, as part of the High Andean Wetlands Initiative, BirdLife International and its partners, have implemented participative exercises to prioritise those ecosystem services which would be most affected by an alteration in the conservation status of Important Bird Areas (IBAs)...
23-26 September 2013 | Stockholm, Sweden
The 12th session of Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 36th session of the IPCC were held from 23-26 September 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was attended by more than 400 participants, including representatives from governments, the United Nations, and intergovernmental and observer organizations...
From 29 September to 2 October, I will celebrate World Food Security Conference in Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands ) . This is an event organized by the University of Wageningen and the prestigious publishing house Elsevier, the largest publisher dedicated to the medical and scientific literature . This conference has invited 600 scientists from 65 countries and aims to be a meeting point for...
The Global Survey on Women's Economic Empowerment was circulated to UN Women networks and partners from 15 October to 9 November 2012.
The Knowledge Gateway for Women's Economic Empowerment will be officially launched Monday 23 September 2013 at 11 am -12.30 pm EDT, at a high-level event co-hosted by UN Women and Canada during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly...
A symposium on mountain economy will take place 6-8 May 2014 in Guiyang, China, organized by Guizhou University of Finance and Economics (GUFE) with support from the Guizhou provincial government.
The aim of this symposium is to focus on the importance of mountain economy and the approaches and methods for promoting development in mountainous areas. The symposium will focus in particular on...
Improving crop yields using sustainable methods could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 12% per calorie produced, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. At the same time, these changes could provide more food to people in need.
Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade,...
The Quaker UN Office (QUNO) has recently published 'Building Peace around water, land and food: Policy and practice for preventing conflict'. This paper explores the links between natural resource management and peacebuilding, highlighting existing international laws and guidelines that can help to prevent destructive conflict around water, land and food. It further presents five...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is launching a call for proposals to conduct case studies on innovative approaches (public, private and/or civil society) designed to link sustainable crop production practices with local markets for sustainable products in developing countries.
The proposals that respond to this call should try to answer the following...
After thorough deliberations on the big picture about the water, forest, agriculture sectors and their sustainability challenges in the Indian Himalayan states, the two-day youth summit organized by Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland in partnership with YouthNet, ICIMOD and LEAD India Tuesday drafted its recommendations to be presented during the upcoming Sustainable Mountain Development...
Government representatives and scientists opened a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday to finalize a reportassessing the evidence for climate change and its causes.
The meeting, the culmination of four years’ work by hundreds of experts who have volunteered their time and expertise to produce a comprehensive assessment, will approve the Summary for...