Story | 22 2月, 2024
Skill-building trainings promote disaster readiness and forest protection
Facing severe problems due to climate change and losing flora and fauna diversity, the Samoa Conservation Society (SCS) is working towards minimising the impacts using Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
Story | 22 2月, 2024
Embarking on a mission to adapt to climate change, the Samoa Conservation Society (SCS) unveiled its planned activities for the Nature-based financing for protected areas in Samoa – O Le Pupu Pu'e National Park Kiwa Initiative project.
News | 29 7月, 2022
Nepal achieves a global commitment to double the tiger
Nepal declared its tiger population has reached 355 on the occasion of Global Tiger Day. With this, Nepal has successfully achieved a global commitment of the St. Petersburg tiger summit to double the wild tigers by 2022.
Story | 05 4月, 2022
The learning journey of NbS in the Pacific
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are defined by IUCN as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”.
Story | 05 4月, 2022
Capacity building sessions in the midst of COVID, a great success
A key output for the Local Projects Component is capacity building for local NGOs, civil society groups and local authorities to raise their ability to access funds and to understand and implement Nature-based Solutions for climate change adaption.
Story | 05 4月, 2022
First round of concept notes received, what’s next?
The 31st of March was an exciting day for the Local Projects Component of the Kiwa Initiative for the Pacific Island Countries in the ACP as it marked the deadline for the submission of full proposals.
Story | 09 3月, 2022
UNEA Resolution - ‘End Plastic Pollution’ - and IUCN role in implementation of the Treaty
The new UNEA Resolution, ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards a legally binding instrument’, establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that will develop the specific content of the new plastic pollution treaty with the aim of completing its work by the end…
Story | 07 5月, 2021
Working closely with ten organisations in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, the Building River Dialogue and Governance for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins (BRIDGE GBM) project, facilitated by IUCN, has…
Story | 15 10月, 2020
As climate change impacts intensify across the globe, the prevalence of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, also known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), has also been increasing, with various actors including governments, private sector, non-governmental organisations and community…
Story | 22 7月, 2020
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Indigenous Peoples Representative to the U.N., Speaks With GlacierHub
CEESP News: by RADHIKA GOYAL, of GlacierHub; undergraduate in Economics and Computer Science, Columbia College