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The 1st Annual World Congress of Biodiversity-2012 was held in Xi’an last April and played a special role in advancing the understanding and a proactive approach to Biodiversity. Inspired by outstanding keynote lectures by ten Nobel laureates, nearly 200 expert speakers from more than 29 countries shared their views, concerns and achievements. The focus of BioD-2012 included eco-economy, eco-...
Conservation Strategy Fund is offering its 15th annual international training course, Economic Tools for Conservation, on August 12-23, 2013 located at Stanford University. This course is being offered in partnership with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford.Over the last decade, this course has become recognized as the premier...
The Climate Reality Leadership Corps is excited to share with you news about Climate Reality's Leadership Corps trainings. With their Chairman, former Vice President Al Gore, they are pleased to announce a U.S. training in Chicago July 30 - August 1 to train new Climate Leaders volunteers from the U.S. and Canada and an Istanbul, Turkey training on June 14 - 16 focused on training volunteers...
Apply now for the Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy in Mombasa, Kenya (20 – 25 October 2013)
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance extends 2013’s summer programme and once again offers a Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy with a strong African focus, this time in Mombasa, Kenya (20 - 25 October 2013). This Kenyan course addresses the rising demand for innovative financing for climate friendly solutions on the African...
A new study published in the April 2013 issue of the journal Environmental Economics has identified the key cattle attributes considered most important by smallholders in the Malian humid and sub-humid zones, and the implications on production, marketing and animal genetic resource management.The study found that the body condition, agroecological origin and category of the transacted...
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation and MP for Newmarket-Aurora, Lois Brown, announced the last April 5, that Canada will invest an additional $62.5 million to make food more secure and nutritious in developing countries through its flagship Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF). Ms. Brown made the announcement at the University of Guelph...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organizing a Digital Photo Contest on the theme of 'Water and Life' to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. This contest also coincides with the United Nation’s International Year of Water Cooperation 2013.The photo contest aims to draw the attention of the public, policymakers and relevant stakeholders to the importance of water...
India, the world’s third-largest emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide, will likely this year commission four studies to evaluate when the country could take on legally-binding curbs on its greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Times of India on Wednesday.The paper claimed the studies will focus on when India’s emissions are likely to peak, how best the nation can cut emissions and the...
A project to improve food security among vulnerable rural groups coordinated by Mountain Partnership member the International Potato Centre (CIP) is underway in four Latin American countries.In the Andes, the potato is one of the most important crops in the agricultural sector. However, in areas where the tuber is produced, chronic malnutrition in children under 3 years still persists.Launched in...
A new output from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the report on an international workshop on "Scaling up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia," available at:CCAFS-USAID-WMO-CSP Scaling-up Workshop reportJointly with USAID, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Climate Services Partnership (CSP), CCAFS successfully...