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2012 official ceremony in Rome
As the coordinating agency for this year's World Water Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is hosting the official ceremony of World Water Day 2012 at its Headquarters in Rome on 22 March 2012.
FAO's Director-General José Graziano da Silva and a variety of speakers will...
17 March 2012: The 6th World Water Forum, which was organized around the theme “Time for Solutions,” concluded with adoption of the Marseille Ministerial Declaration. Key issues addressed during the Forum included: access to drinking water and sanitation; contributions to a green economy; resilience and adaptation to climate change; and governance and financing.
The Forum, which...
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10:00 am to 11:30 am (EDT)
The recent Durban Climate Conference made important progress towards clarifying the international operational framework for Nationally...
Join the webinar: mms://wbmswebcast1.worldbank.org/external-7
10:00 am to 11:30 am (EDT)
The recent Durban Climate Conference made important progress towards clarifying the international operational framework for Nationally...
Rio+20 Side Event on Water, Food, and Energy Nexus: Why Mountains Matter will be jointly organised by Government of Nepal, ICIMOD and Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) on 26 March 2012, Monday, 13:15 –14:45 at UN NLB Building in New York in the sideline of 3rd Intercessional Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable...
MRD 32.1 (February 2012) focuses on water resources in the Upper Indus Basin and beyond. It complements the August 2011 issue (MRD 31.3), which featured 3 articles focusing on the Indus Basin and (transboundary) water management; in this new issue of MRD, 3 additional papers discuss the linkages between climate, precipitation, glaciology, and river runoff in the Upper Indus Basin, and offer...
The report is an effort to inform project developers and policy-makers about the main lessons learned by the BioCarbon Fund while accompanying the development of more than 20 A/R CDM forest projects in 16 countries since it started operations in 2004. It sheds light on opportunities the CDM offers to the forestry sector and also on the challenges encountered by project developers when...
Housed within the Carbon Finance Unit of the World Bank, the BioCarbon Fund (BioCF) is a public private initiative mobilizing resources for pioneering projects that sequester or conserve carbon in forest- and agro-ecosystems, mitigating climate change and improving local livelihoods. The overall goal of the Fund is to demonstrate that land-base activities can generate high-quality emission...
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has released Ramsar Technical Report No. 6, titled "Healthy wetlands, healthy people: a review of wetlands and human health interactions." The report was published jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report focuses on providing advice to wetland managers and decision...
The majority of the mountains and Himalayan population depend upon agricultural and forest based natural resources for their livelihoods (Singh et al., 1994; Sundriyal et al., 1994) The traditional farming system in the Himalaya is a mixture of crop and animal husbandry, which provides fodder, firewood, food and medicine for human and timber for house construction (Upreti et al., 2001)....
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