Story | 15 Mar, 2020
Rethinking the 'know-how' and the 'being'
CEESP News: by Sandra Pilar Sanchez, Economist, Manager in International Business, Maître ès sciences, M. Sc
Living in times when much transformation is urgently needed, at many levels, this article…
Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Observing the Earth to enforce environmental law
CEESP News: by the IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (IUCN ECARO)
Applying an innovative approach, enviroLENS aims to combine and integrate Earth Observation with law enforcement for the benefit of effective environmental management. The resulting portal will serve…
Story | 10 Mar, 2020
Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action
CEESP News: by Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (a), Janis Alcorn (b), Augusta Molnar (c),⇑, Christina Healy (d), Edmund Barrow (e) **
A new publication " Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action" in the academic…
Story | 16 Feb, 2020
IUCN India’s Leaders for Nature (LfN) First Advisory Committee Meeting
The first meeting of IUCN India’s Leaders for Nature Advisory committee was held on the 7th January 2020 at IUCN India Country office. The meeting was attended by distinguished corporates and members of the LfN like TATA Steel, Hindustan Zinc Limited, ITC Limited, Aditya Birla Group among others…
Story | 31 Jan, 2020
Call for an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework on World Wetlands Day 2020
Open Letter by the International Organization Partners to the Convention on Wetlands: Birdlife International, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Wetlands International,
Story | 30 Dec, 2019
A Reflection on Protected Areas in Serving Wildlife Migration: Endangered Oriental Storks
CEESP News: by Linda Wong and Jinfeng Zhou, Secretariat of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF).
Starving migratory Oriental Storks have been found in northeast China this wintering season. Field investigations found that the lack of food in…
Story | 30 Dec, 2019
The Historical Journey of Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change Negotiation
CEESP News: by Pasang Dolma Sherpa, PhD, Co-Chair of FWG, LCIPP of the UNFCCC. Pasang is also Co-Chair of the CEESP Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws & Human Rights Specialist Group (SPICEH)
Story | 23 Dec, 2019
NRGF in 2019: Continued implementation, outreach and learning
CEESP News: by Jessica Campese (NRGF Co-Chair, CEESP) with Barbara Nakangu (GPGR Senior Programme Manager, NRGF Co-Chair) and Jenny Springer (GPGR Director).
The Natural Resource Governance Framework (NRGF) initiative made important progress in 2019 in expanding outreach, supporting use…
Story | 23 Dec, 2019
Mobile Pastoralism and the World Heritage Convention
CEESP News: by Nigel Dudley of Equilibrium Research, and by Liza Zogib of DiversEarth, who is also Co-Chair of the CEESP Specialist Group on Religion, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice
Story | 17 Dec, 2019
Peace, Migration, and Environmental Change
CEESP News: by Galeo Saintz and Elaine Hsaio, Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Environment & Peace.
Migration of humans and other species is widely predicted to increase in large numbers due to environmental change (e.g., climate change and environmental degradation) and…