Conserving Our Land,
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
Land conservation initiatives are crucial in safeguarding the environment and mitigating the effects of climate change. By promoting actionable information and best practices, we can enhance restoration efforts and drive meaningful change.
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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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…
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…
It is recognising saving elephant from illegal killing has created a different conservation problem: ensuring that surviving populations
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 brings together stakeholders to examine seasonal climate outlook and its implications for key sectors across Greater Horn of Africa
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 GBF’s 2030 deadline, Parties confronted a difficult question has the framework translated global biodiversity ambition into action
Mongolia Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg was elected COP17 President, beginning consideration of the agenda for negotiations
An elephant moving between protected areas and community land can reveal ecological connections that administrative maps may overlook.
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…
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…
AU Commission works towards a common negotiating position for states ahead of IMO’s next shipping decarbonisation talks as Red Sea shakes
