Grey literature | 2021
Economic Assessment: Deposit Refund System (DRS) for a Plastics Circular Economy: Menorca, Spain
The main objective of this research was to carry out an economic assessment of an instrument to reinforce the implementation of the plastics circular economy (CE) in the waste management sector in Menorca, Spain. The focus of this Economic Brief is a Deposit Return System (DRS) for PET beverage…
Blog | 09 Aug, 2022
Celebrating and upholding Indigenous women – keepers of Indigenous scientific knowledge
Across the globe, Indigenous women are recognised as custodians of traditional knowledge systems, holding fundamental roles in their preservation and intergenerational transmission. The Indigenous knowledge systems they preserve encompass Indigenous worldviews, facilitating the resilience of…
Conservation Tool | since 2014
PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet
The PANORAMA platform identifies and promotes examples of tested and replicable solutions in biodiversity conservation and broader sustainability issues. By providing peer-to-peer exchange opportunities across sectors and geographies, it facilitates…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Small-scale fishers' Call to Action
CEESP News: Vivienne Solis Rivera, biologist, honorary member of the ICCA Consortium, part of the Board of Directors of ICSF, and CEESP member
A healthy ocean is contingent upon respect for the rights of small scale fishers and Indigenous communities that rely on the ocean for life and…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Empowering Indigenous communities in Guwahati against an environmental injustice
CEESP News: Suryakanta Acharya1
In the fall of 2021, we helped Indigenous communities in Assam, India manage the government’s unjust garbage dumping practices. Our activism, along with the efforts of other NGOs and judiciary interventions, were enough to compel the municipality to shift…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
New legislation to protect the rights of the Indigenous Pygmy Peoples in the DRC
CEESP News: Marine Gauthier, Social and Environmental Safeguards Expert - UNDP & CEESP member
In 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo recognized the customary rights of its Indigenous population by adopting a new law on Indigenous Pygmy Peoples. Its enforcement could become the…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Taking up space: reflections of an Indigenous youth navigating international biodiversity policy
CEESP News: Josefa Cariño Tauli, policy co-coordinator, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Message from the Chair of SPICEH: rights-based conservation for social justice
CEESP News: Pasang Dolma Sherpa, PhD, Chair of IUCN CEESP Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws, and Human Rights (SPICEH) & Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED)