Story | 01 May, 2011
Smoke and Mirrors. A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
This new Forest Peoples Programme report exposes ongoing serious problems in the World Bank's forest carbon fund, which is still failing to uphold the rights of forest peoples.
Story | 01 May, 2011
Principles for the Green Economy
A collection of principles for the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication
Story | 29 Apr, 2011
Expanding IUCN's science engagement for better conservation
Expanding IUCN's science engagement for better conservation
Story | 28 Apr, 2011
Expanding IUCN’s science engagement for better conservation
IUCN welcomes distinguished scientists from around the world and a wide variety of disciplines to the new IUCN Science Advisory Board.
Story | 21 Apr, 2011
Global forestry institutions call for more community-based forest management
The leading international organizations working to protect and manage the world’s forests are calling for governments across the globe to increase communities’ role in forest management. Doing so could contribute to lifting close to a billion people out of poverty, as well as improve the health…
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
The Wetland Carbon Partnership continues for a 3rd Year
Danone, IUCN and Ramsar have agreed to a third year of the their Wetland Carbon Partnership. The partnership aims to find and invest in large scale mangrove restoration projects which deliver CDM-certified carbon credits to Danone as well as benefits to local communities.
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
For two issues (CEESP September 2010 and December 2010), we have raised attention to how an international network of environmental organizations and the forest industry have been shaping forest policy in the Canadian boreal region. We specifically focused on the Far North Act in Ontario and…
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
Linking and Geotagging Pastoralist and Mobile Production Systems
By Dario Novellino and Valentina De Marchi
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
Authored by Dr. Dan Robinson of the University of New South Wales and Kabir Bavikatte.
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
World Heritage, Local Communities and Human Rights
By Gonzalo Oviedo, Tatjana Puschkarsky and Nigel Crawhall