Sustainability
Last December I attended an annual event of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative - described as an ‘inclusive, multi-stakeholder partnership to rapidly develop the region’s agricultural...
Threats to global food security present a challenge that most agree is only getting worse. The possibility of achieving a food secure world without sustainable development is highly debated in policy and academia. A recently published article in the journal of Public Health...
The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. And this must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2 C. degree warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing...
El Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) se encuentra organizando la Octava Reunión del Consejo Regional de Expertos de Gobierno sobre Consumo y Producción Sostenibles. Este evento se llevará a cabo los días 4 y 5 de mayo de 2015, en la Ciudad de Panamá,...
La Comisión Económica para la América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y la Municipalidad de São Paulo organizan los Coloquios Sudamericanos sobre Ciudades Metropolitanas – MSUR. El primer Coloquio, con el tema Ecosistemas Urbanos y Sostenibilidad, se llevará a cabo los días 27 y 28 de...
New figures show investment fell to $254bn in 2013, with a drop in Europe of 41%.
Global investment in clean energy fell for the second year in a row to $254bn last year, with green investment in Europe crashing by 41%, new figures showed on Wednesday.
The...
In respect to 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand state of India and the overall mountain developmental efforts in the Himalayan region, we are starting a new discussion thread, and request your inputs and comments in this discourse.
Through an introductory note on this subject Dr...
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance extends its 2013’s summer programme once again to offer a Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy with a strong African focus, this time in Mombasa, Kenya from the 20 – 25 October 2013!...
