Story | 02 Mar, 2017
The building blocks of pledging to the Bonn Challenge – Cameroon’s story
Cameroon recently announced a 12 million hectare restoration pledge to the Bonn Challenge by 2030 – the largest thus far from Central Africa. The question arises, how do countries decide to commit? What is the groundwork that goes into it? We look closer at Cameroon’s experience.
Story | 01 Mar, 2017
Note de la Présidente de la CEESP
Comme il s'agit ici du premier bulletin de la Commission depuis le Congrès mondial de la nature à Hawaï, je voudrais présenter le cadre général de notre travail au cours des quatre prochaines années, et vous inviter à apporter vos contributions en tant que membres!
Story | 01 Mar, 2017
Mensaje de la Presidente de la CPAES
CEESP News - by Kristen Walker- Painemilla, February 2017
Ya que este es el primer boletín de la Comisión desde el Congreso Mundial para la Naturaleza en Hawái, deseo establecer un poco de lo que será nuestra labor durante los próximos cuatro años, así que bienvenidos a comunicarme sus…
Story | 27 Feb, 2017
Local communities empowered to protect nature in Viet Nam
Da Nang City, the third largest city in Viet Nam, is taking important initiatives to protect nature. Known as the most livable city in Viet Nam, Da Nang is remarkable not only for its policy to become an environmental city by 2020 but also for the fact that its local communities also take a …
Story | 22 Feb, 2017
CEESP News - by Kristen Walker- Painemilla, February 2017
As this is the first Chair's Note since the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, I want to set the stage a bit for our work over the next four years, and invite input from you as members!
Story | 21 Feb, 2017
Advances on bioprospecting and ABS legislation in the Caribbean
Presentations on bioprospecting in the Caribbean region as well as the development of legislation on ABS for the participating countries, were submitted during the third regional workshop on the project “Advancing the Nagoya Protocol in Counties of the Caribbean Region”, held in Bridgetown…
Story | 17 Feb, 2017
In an invitation dated 1 February, 2017, Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli (Director, UN/DOALOS) calls for delegations to communicate the names of their representatives for the 3rd Session of the Preparatory Committee established by General Assembly resolution 69/292: Development of an international…
Story | 14 Feb, 2017
Strengthening Environmental Education in the Sixaola River Basin
As part of the efforts to improve teaching of environmental education in schools in the Sixaola River basin area, and identifying needs by the Champions of Sixaola; the BRIDGE project organized a workshop named “Training for Trainers on Environmental Education”
Story | 14 Feb, 2017
The Assembly was celebrated on October 6th and 7th 2016 at the Panama University, located in Changuinola, Panama
Story | 14 Feb, 2017
Blog: Measuring livelihood dependency on river flow - an interdisciplinary approach
Blog by Laetitia Pettinotti, Researcher at BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change.
"Last September the 'WISE-UP to Climate' team visited the dry Northern region of Ghana, destination: the communities of Arigu, Bisigu, and Pwalugu which line the White Volta River. It was my second trip…