Story | 16 Sep, 2019
CEESP News: by Kristen Walker Paniemilla, Chair of CEESP
There is much happening across the Commission. These last few months, the IUCN family has focused efforts on the preparation of WCC forum proposals, motions and revisions to the WCC Program. In this letter, I will share just a few…
Story | 12 Jul, 2019
BRIDGE - Building River Dialogue and Governance: kick off programme 2019-2021
The IUCN BRIDGE programme works towards building river dialogue and governance in transboundary basins. Implemented by IUCN in close collaboration with regional partners, a fourth phase of the programme…
Story | 02 Jul, 2019
Nature in the City: Green solutions for sustainable, healthy and resilient Cities
Today the world population stands at 7.7 billion. In the next 30 years it is expected to grow by a further 2.9 billion. By 2100, according to the latest UN projections, humanity is expected to have developed into an almost exclusively urban species with 80-90% of people living in cities.
Story | 28 Jun, 2019
Options for Governance and Decision-making across Scales and Sectors
CEESP News - by Dr. Marina Rosales Benites de Franco, Professor and Researcher of Federico Villarreal National University
Story | 17 Jun, 2019
Peer-to-peer learning: Indigenous peoples share solutions
Forty-two representatives of indigenous organisations from around the world recently met in Tecpan, Guatemala to share experiences and learn from one another on environmental, business and social issues – taking another step toward a common understanding.
Story | 10 Jun, 2019
CCAD presents award to Grethel Aguilar for her track record in the region
The Central American Commission for Environment and Development (known in Spanish as CCAD) presented Dr Grethel Aguilar with an award for her track record as Region
Story | 20 May, 2019
La Antigua will host the Regional Conservation Forum
The Forum will include a Knowledge Day which will be open to the general public, with experience exchange panels, expert talks, audiovisual presentations, and posters about conservation and sustainable development experiences.
Story | 20 Mar, 2019
Roadmap to Tanzania’s first miombo nature reserve
Blog by Kasukura Nyamaka. My work for SUSTAIN is based in the far western region of Tanzania, in the Sumbawanga cluster of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). It is a resource-rich region inhabited mainly by the Fipa people who maintain themselves by subsistence…
Story | 07 Jan, 2019
Asian Indigenous People's struggle in COP 24
CEESP News - by Pasang Dolma Sherpa, PhD, co-chair of SPICEH
Indigenous peoples from Asia, who participated in the COP 24 of the UNFCCC in Katowice, Poland from 2 to 14th Dec. 2018, felt the very important step in strengthening indigenous peoples’ roles, indigenous knowledge and…
Blog | 21 Dec, 2018
COP 24 in Katowice faced many challenges that threatened the agreement on the Paris Rulebook including the lack of acceptance by some Parties to recognise and welcome the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a sense that ambition…