COP17: Restoring Land, Restoring Choices in a Changing Climate

At UNCCD COP17 in Mongolia, delegates are drawing a powerful connection between degraded land, migration, secure tenure and private investment, arguing that restoring landscapes is…

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Behind “Restoring Hope”: The $451 Million Question at UNCCD COP17

As the UN’s land summit opens under a hopeful banner, a new financial accounting shows where the money for drought resilience has actually gone, and…

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Elephant

From Poaching to Conflict: How Data Is Reshaping Africa’s Elephant Strategy

It is recognising saving elephant from illegal killing has created a different conservation problem: ensuring that surviving populations

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Blue Carbon

In Kenya’s Mangroves, a Blueprint for the World’s Blue Carbon Future

How a week-long exchange between Kenya and Indonesia, and a community mural in Vanga Bay, is redefining trust in the global Blue Carbon market Along…

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GHACOF 74

GHACOF 74: Regional Leaders Call for Stronger Climate Action as El Niño Risks Loom

GHACOF 74 brings together stakeholders to examine seasonal climate outlook and its implications for key sectors across Greater Horn of Africa

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Africa’s Green Jobs Problem Isn’t a Lack of Ambition. It’s a Lack of Wiring.

Africa’s youth are not sitting idle waiting for the green economy to arrive. They are working more, in fact, than young people almost anywhere else…

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Halfway to 2030, the Global Biodiversity Framework Is Falling Behind

Halfway to GBF's 2030 deadline, Parties confronted a difficult question has the framework translated global biodiversity ambition into action

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Mongolia

UNCCD COP17 Opens in Mongolia as Drought, Finance and Global Divisions Take Center Stage

Mongolia Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg was elected COP17 President, beginning consideration of the agenda for negotiations

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Wangari Maathai was well-known as a political, social, and environmental activist. In 1977 she started a grass-roots movement aimed at countering the deforestation that was threatening the means of subsistence of the agricultural population.

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COP17: Restoring Land, Restoring Choices in a Changing Climate
COP17: Restoring Land, Restoring Choices in a Changing Climate

At UNCCD COP17 in Mongolia, delegates are drawing a powerful connection between degraded land, migration, secure tenure and private investment, arguing that restoring landscapes is ultimately about giving communities the ability to remain, move or return by choice. For…

Behind “Restoring Hope”: The $451 Million Question at UNCCD COP17
Behind “Restoring Hope”: The $451 Million Question at UNCCD COP17

As the UN’s land summit opens under a hopeful banner, a new financial accounting shows where the money for drought resilience has actually gone, and where it hasn’t. When the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention…

From Poaching to Conflict: How Data Is Reshaping Africa’s Elephant Strategy
From Poaching to Conflict: How Data Is Reshaping Africa’s Elephant Strategy

It is recognising saving elephant from illegal killing has created a different conservation problem: ensuring that surviving populations

In Kenya’s Mangroves, a Blueprint for the World’s Blue Carbon Future
In Kenya’s Mangroves, a Blueprint for the World’s Blue Carbon Future

How a week-long exchange between Kenya and Indonesia, and a community mural in Vanga Bay, is redefining trust in the global Blue Carbon market Along the Kenyan coast, where mangrove roots twist through the tidal mud of Gazi Bay…

GHACOF 74: Regional Leaders Call for Stronger Climate Action as El Niño Risks Loom
GHACOF 74: Regional Leaders Call for Stronger Climate Action as El Niño Risks Loom

GHACOF 74 brings together stakeholders to examine seasonal climate outlook and its implications for key sectors across Greater Horn of Africa

Africa’s Green Jobs Problem Isn’t a Lack of Ambition. It’s a Lack of Wiring.
Africa’s Green Jobs Problem Isn’t a Lack of Ambition. It’s a Lack of Wiring.

Africa’s youth are not sitting idle waiting for the green economy to arrive. They are working more, in fact, than young people almost anywhere else in the world. An estimated 304 million young Africans, roughly 57% of the continent’s…

Halfway to 2030, the Global Biodiversity Framework Is Falling Behind
Halfway to 2030, the Global Biodiversity Framework Is Falling Behind

Halfway to GBF’s 2030 deadline, Parties confronted a difficult question has the framework translated global biodiversity ambition into action

UNCCD COP17 Opens in Mongolia as Drought, Finance and Global Divisions Take Center Stage
UNCCD COP17 Opens in Mongolia as Drought, Finance and Global Divisions Take Center Stage

Mongolia Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg was elected COP17 President, beginning consideration of the agenda for negotiations

One Elephant, Many Treaties: Why Africa’s Wildlife Data Systems Need to Talk to Each Other
One Elephant, Many Treaties: Why Africa’s Wildlife Data Systems Need to Talk to Each Other

An elephant moving between protected areas and community land can reveal ecological connections that administrative maps may overlook.

Biodiversity COP17: What Nairobi’s SBSTTA-28 Talks Set in Motion
Biodiversity COP17: What Nairobi’s SBSTTA-28 Talks Set in Motion

Nairobi became a meeting point for one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges: how to halt the loss of biodiversity. Delegates gathered at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters for two linked meetings under the Convention on Biological Diversity…

How Climate Change Is Choking Europe’s Busiest Waterway
How Climate Change Is Choking Europe’s Busiest Waterway

At the gauge in Kaub, the number reads 10 centimeters. It has been dropping for weeks, and shippers on the Rhine have watched it fall with mounting dread. The water level here now sits around 120 centimeters, an absolute…

As Red Sea Attacks Return, Nine African Countries Tighten Port Security
As Red Sea Attacks Return, Nine African Countries Tighten Port Security

AU Commission works towards a common negotiating position for states ahead of IMO’s next shipping decarbonisation talks as Red Sea shakes

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