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Photo exhibition at the Palais des Nations entitled "Shared Risks, Shared Responsibility: Opportunities for Cooperation".
This photo exhibit is an event to highlight existing practices and opportunities to build disaster resilient communities and nations, as part of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a ten-year plan endorsed by the General Assembly in 2005 to coordinate country efforts to reduce disaster risk.
It provides visual evidence of how countries are interpreting the HFA principles to reduce risk to protect and advance development, and the need for this important work to be fully integrated into sustainable development initiatives.
More info: www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/30989
Children fetch water from a makeshift faucet, which will be used to wash their hands or flush the toilet in school. They stand to benefit from an ILO Japan Water and Sanitation Project that aims to provide safe and clean water as well as promote peace and create decent work in conflict-affected areas of the Philippines.
Know more about the project implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to promote peace and provide decent work, funded by the Government of Japan: bit.ly/ilowatsan
Photo ©ILO / Minette Rimando
28 January 2020
South Upi, Maguindanao, Philippines
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Belarus: A water canal at Zvaniec fen mire is part of groundwater level regulating activities restoring and re-wetting the peatlands.
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Day three at the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development at the World Conference Center (WCC) in Bonn, March 03, 2017. © photothek/Inga Kjer.
Sun International donates much needed medical equipment to the value of half a million Rand to clinics in Alexandra townships. Find out more
Rwanda's Fund for the Environment and Climate Change is ground breaking initiative and the biggest of its kind in Africa. It will be the engine of Rwanda's green growth for the next 50 years. The fund will provide technical and financial support to the best public and private projects that align with Rwanda's commitment to a strong green economy.
Learn more about the fund at fonerwa.org.
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I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
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Caption:Waste processing centre. Seynod. France.
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The thing is, everyone is trying to find ways to stop global warming through new technology.
Nothing wrong with this in itself, great, however it seems no-one is really speaking about the fundamental reasons global warming has come about.
We keep saying it has come about from burning too many fossil fuels, too many cows, too much carbon emission etc.
These are secondary causes, not first causes.
Very few people seem to be really addressing the reasons why we do these things in the first place.
We tend to take it as a given that we should do these things, and then try and find a better way to do them.
Thus the current mainstream attitude is still an effort to try and produce the same level of energy, the same level of consumer goods, yet somehow make all the technology ‘green’. We're still trying to have the cake and eat it too.
I have my doubts this can actually work, no matter how ingenious and devoted we are to the idea. The reason is this:
At the core level, the reason global warming has come about (not to mention other destructions of the earth) is because we are greedy and have produced an excessive amount of material goods, far beyond what we need for happiness and health.
It is easy to blame large corporations, however they can only exist if the individual supports them by buying their products, and we all demand the products of the large corporations, so as individuals we are all to blame.
No-one wants to hear this though because changing yourself seems too hard, we demand that governments enforce big business to change, we hope scientists will come up with new technologies.. and hope these things will solve everything whilst we keep acquiring.
The basic problem is what we have always been told through spiritual teachers down the ages... it is ego, which produces division and greed.
Ego has been at the core of all our wars, both personal and country. Ego demands, it wants to consume and enlarge itself. It does this on many levels; food, wealth, power, division, land acquisition, violence, ideas, identities. It does this on the personal level, and in group levels in everything from a football team to a national identity, any group where individuals gather part or all of their identity from the group.
There is a natural reason the ego has evolved, but we have barely examined it scientifically and dealt with the enormous range of problems it has produced in our societies.
If we change our technologies but don’t examine the very reasons we demand to acquire so much in the way of material possessions, we are not going to solve the problems, they will still be there in a new package. Or we will solve some problems as new ones grow, which is all we have ever done so far.
The reason that no-one is seriously speaking about the core reasons for global warming, is because deep down few people are prepared to actually change. We are scared of the planet dying and even governments are beginning to take small steps toward changing this situation, however we are only taking steps that involve keeping our current standard of acquisition and wealth. We keep speaking about economic impact, and never a word is said about spiritual impact, spiritual worth, or simply preserving beauty.
Governments still aren’t interested in beauty, only money. They will only change technology structures if there is money in it. Therefore nothing is really changing. The Australian government is STILL talking about 'sustainable development' which is one of the more transparently absurd philosophical ideas around. It doesnt take a huge intellect to realise that on a planet of limited size, development and acquisition cannot go on forever. Yet still almost no-one wants to stop!
So the change must begin at a very personal level, which is to try and understand why we demand so much personally, and does it truly bring happiness health and wisdom?
But few people want to seriously entertain the idea of having less, we are terrified of it in fact, because the entire structure of society has brought us up otherwise, the entire system is structured around economic wealth being the thing that holds us together. We are so brainwashed it has become nearly impossible to see another solution to finding happiness.
It is barely our fault however, we have been brainwashed relentlessly from the day we are born to look outward for happiness and satisfaction, never inward. It is this continual reaching outward to the material world that has produced our desire for so much, which is what is now causing the destruction of the ecosystem of an entire planet.
We need to address this first, or at least at the very same time that we are trying to make new technologies.
Solar power was used 1986 to completely energize the 80,000 square foot Barefoot College campus at Tilonia. The College campus now is totally self-sufficient with a 40 kilowatt solar energy unit meeting all its energy needs.
Scenes from a side event during the 70th General Assembly: "Using Inclusive Partnerships to Deliver on the SDGs: the Role of Gender-Responsive Budgeting."
The side event built on a series of high-level meetings on transformative financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment and highlighted how inclusive partnerships can improve the effectiveness, quality and impact of financing for gender equality. It showcased country level application of gender-responsive budgeting as a key driver for increasing resources to achieve gender equality commitments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Moreover, the event will demonstrate the contribution of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) as a dynamic platform for fostering mutual learning and contributing to implementation of the SDGs.
The event was hosted by Malawi, Mexico and the Kingdom of the Netherlands as Co-Chairs of the GPEDC, as well as UN Women.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
20 years after the war, mines remain a major threat to nearly 550,000 people across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since the war, 1,751 people have been injured by mines, resulting in 612 deaths, including 249 children.
A new UNDP programme is now working to accelerate the demining process in a coordinated manner.
A girl lives with her family in a shelter built under the ILO emergency employment and livelihood recovery response. The ILO engaged typhoon-affected community members as workers and provided them with decent work opportunities including wages and social protection benefits.
Photo ©ILO / Minette Rimando
23 July 2012
Iligan City, Philippines
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To launch ODI's new event series - #GlobalChallenges - Professor Jeffrey Sachs discussed financing for sustainable development, focusing on the critical role of international public finance as a driver for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Professor Sachs was joined by Romilly Greenhill (ODI), Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen (Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations), and Aggrey Tisa Sabuni (Economic Adviser to the President, South Sudan). The event was chaired by Kevin Watkins (ODI).
For more about the event, visit: www.odi.org/events/4089-financing-sustainable-development
For more about the #GlobalChallenges event series, visit: www.odi.org/events/4088-globalchallenges
Izabella Teixeira, Brazil's Minister of Environment at the UN Women Leaders Forum ahead of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Fabricio Barreto
Rwanda's Fund for the Environment and Climate Change is ground breaking initiative and the biggest of its kind in Africa. It will be the engine of Rwanda's green growth for the next 50 years. The fund will provide technical and financial support to the best public and private projects that align with Rwanda's commitment to a strong green economy.
Learn more about the fund at fonerwa.org.
800 Teilnehmer aus 70 Ländern kamen zur ersten Bonn Conference for Global Transformation am 12. und 13. Mai, darunter internationale Experten wie Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ed Gillespie, Claudia Roth und die Preisträgerin des Alternativen Nobelpreises Vandana Shiva.
Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccinators in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha state in India can today look towards bright prospects. The demand for their services has not only spawned new employment opportunities within their locales, but has also helped farmers protect their poultry flocks which would routinely be ravaged by Newcastle Disease outbreaks. In addition, the chance to become a poultry vaccinator and the income that comes along with it has empowered rural women, who can now use their hard earned money to invest in a better future for their families. Access to ND vaccination training in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha has been facilitated by the Bhodal Milk Producers Co-operative Society (BMPCS), a local NGO, and Heifer International in partnership with non-profit Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed).
Thirty-seven-year-old, Govardhan Naik from Suryapada always wanted to set up his own business. A university graduate, he first heard of an opportunity to be an ND vaccinator through a friend. After a four day training course that covered vaccination and first aid, he ventured into the field as a trained vaccinator. This was about four years ago.
Govardhan gets his supplies of the ND vaccine from a market at a nearby town, Kosta. He has also procured a refrigerator to store the vaccines and a motorcycle to help him reach the farmers. He serves around 400 households vaccinating close to 5,000 chickens every month. Providing additional services such as deworming and first aid, Govardhan brings home a net income averaging INR 8,000 (US $ 122) monthly, which has positively contributed to the economic well-being of his family.
His work as a vaccinator has brought him recognition from the locals and several of his friends have now shown an interest in the occupation, with one of them now an active vaccinator. “I will continue as a vaccinator even after this current project ends,” he says, referring to the ongoing GALVmed sponsored initiative, much to the relief of numerous households who are grateful for his services and want him to continue.
The effects of the poultry vaccinators’ work on the local economy are visible. When Govardhan first began vaccinating, an average village consisting of about 20 households would have a maximum of 70-80 chickens. After the first year of vaccination, the number skyrocketed to over 1,000. Farmers’ earnings from poultry rearing increased.
“If you work as a vaccinator, you can have an independent enterprise,” he adds.
A vial of the ND vaccine costs between INR 75 (US $1.16) and INR 100 (US $1.55). One vial can vaccinate up to 100 chickens. A vaccinator can charge INR 2 (US $ 0.03) per vaccination. There is also additional income derived from services such as deworming and first aid. For example, Govardhan earns another INR 3,000 or (US $46) from these additional services.
The involvement of women as vaccinators has also contributed to their economic empowerment and participation in decision making within the family unit and their communities. Mamata Mandal, 42, from Tikayatpur village in Ras Gobindpur block, is one such vaccinator. Mamata first got to know about vaccination from Anup Behra, the team leader of Unnayana, a local NGO. Coming from a family that has traditionally reared poultry and having witnessed high mortality of the birds, she readily took up the occupation.
Mamata procures her supplies from a small shop, about 7 km away from her village. Carrying a cool box to store the vaccines, she serves around 250 households in a 3km radius and vaccinates around 5,000 birds. Her services get her an income of INR 3,000 (US $ 46) every month. “With this income I can school my children and buy agricultural inputs for the farm,” she says.
BMPCS started the programme with just 7,500 families in 2011. By December 2016, the NGO had already reached more than 175,000 households. Today BMPCS supports more than 320 vaccinators in the project area.
Heifer International’s project was launched in September 2015. By May 2017, they had served as many as 62,316 households. Today, Heifer International supports more than 218 active vaccinators in the field.
Newcastle disease vaccination has helped turn around the lives of many individuals in Mayurbhanj. The vaccinators stand at the frontlines in the fight against the deadly poultry disease and their services are benefitting many smallholder farmers. And with a stable demand for their services, the vaccinators can hope for a better future.
Written by: Deepak Bhadana and edited by Prasenjit De of Alternatives for GALVmed.
Photography by Prasenjit De.
"Fishing and livestock are not enough any more to sustain adequate incomei in Kazakhdarya-village. I established a carpenter’s workshop as an alternative income generation activity. The project (UNDP-GEF «Achieving ecosystem stability on degraded land in Karakalpakstan and Kyzylkum desert») helped me with equipment. I taught my skills to my sons. My shop is supplying the community with double window frames, doors and other wooden products. That is providing extra revenue to my family."
- Onaibek Akilbekov, carpenter
Photo by Nataliya Shulepina
Georgia: Rehabilitated sheep shelter, farm infrastructure with improved energy efficiency.
© Clima East
Photos from the WTO Aid for Trade Global Review 2017 photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © WTO/Jay Louvion
Portrait taken In Senate during a symposium about Sustainable Development.
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Cliché pris au cours d'un colloque organisé au Sénat sur le Développement Durable.
20 years after the war, mines remain a major threat to nearly 550,000 people across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since the war, 1,751 people have been injured by mines, resulting in 612 deaths, including 249 children.
A new UNDP programme is now working to accelerate the demining process in a coordinated manner.
Samples of bamboo charcoal and wood products. As an incredibly fast-growing plant, bamboo has the potential for sustainable use as charcoal, fibre, construction materials, and more.
Kenya, February 2017
The New Restoration Economy is working to make restoration profitable and capable of attracting private investment.
Learn more here.
Photo by Andrew Wu, World Resources Institute.
Scenes from the event "What Can We Do to Empower Rural Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?" commemorating the 2014 International Day for Rural Women and held at United Nations Headquarters on October 15, 2014.
The event was co-chaired by Ambassador Guillermo E. Rischynski of Canada and Ambassador O. Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia and featured panelists: Talayibek Kydyrov, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the UN; Thomas Yanga, director - interagency partnership division (WFP) representing Rome-based agencies FAO, WFP and IFAD; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director; Sarah Campbell, World Farmers Organization/ National Farmers’ Union Foundation.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
"The Future I want is where we have opportunity for both personal and professional growth, without limitations."
Photo Credit: Speak Your Mind // Lachie McKenzie
20 years after the war, mines remain a major threat to nearly 550,000 people across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since the war, 1,751 people have been injured by mines, resulting in 612 deaths, including 249 children.
A new UNDP programme is now working to accelerate the demining process in a coordinated manner.
Nahla Sukkari has worked in the making of Fekha carpets for 35 years. “Ever since I started this work, it has provided for my children and me,” she said. “It meant we did not have to rely on anyone. Each piece motivates me to keep improving.”
The wool Nahla uses comes from the Hima community. Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management. Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
See more: youtu.be/vxDWsv6FZks
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Many farmers in Bangladesh are now growing new plant varieties developed by scientists at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA). These scientists have worked closely with the IAEA to develop new plant varieties of crops, such as rice, using nuclear and other conventional plant breeding techniques. These new plant varieties are selected for their improved traits, such as shorter growing times, better tolerance to salty soils, and higher yields. These plants mean farmers can grow more food to feed their families and to sell at the market.
Mymensingh, Bangladesh, October 2016. Photo credit: Nicole Jawerth/IAEA
Photo credit: ©FAO/Richard Slaby
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Rice is a staple food in Bangladesh. Many farmers in Bangladesh are now growing new rice plant varieties, like Binadahn-7, developed by scientists at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA). These scientists have worked closely with the IAEA to develop new plant varieties of crops, such as rice, using nuclear and other conventional plant breeding techniques. These new plant varieties are selected for their improved traits, such as shorter growing times, better tolerance to salty soils, and higher yields. These plants mean farmers can grow more food to feed their families and to sell at the market.
Mymensingh, Bangladesh, October 2016. Photo credit: Nicole Jawerth/IAEA
Studies have shown that climate change will cause a shift of climatic zones in the ecosystems of Altai-Sayan, resulting in animal migration. In response, a buffer zone of about 600,000 hectares of protected forests has been created between the Western and Eastern part of the region to protect the migration routes of globally threatened species, such as the snow leopard, lynx, European red deer, elk, argali, and more.
FInd out more about Adapting to climate change in Altai-Sayan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Kazakhstan
The APFSD is the most inclusive regional platform on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
The sixth Forum, as in previous years, served as a preparatory event for the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) and engaged member States, United Nations bodies and other institutions, major groups and other stakeholders in highlighting regional and subregional perspectives on the 2019 theme of the HLPF, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. © ILO
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Georgia: Creating enclosures for monitoring climate conditions & anthropogenic impacts. Demonstrating how pastures can grow when managed properly.
© Clima East
WWF International Director General Jim Leape comments on the final text presented by negotiators at the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil - "Pathetic..."
Children fetch water from a makeshift faucet, which will be used to wash their hands or flush the toilet in school. They stand to benefit from an ILO Japan Water and Sanitation Project that aims to provide safe and clean water as well as promote peace and create decent work in conflict-affected areas of the Philippines.
Know more about the project implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to promote peace and provide decent work, funded by the Government of Japan: bit.ly/ilowatsan
Photo ©ILO / Minette Rimando
28 January 2020
South Upi, Maguindanao, Philippines
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Mariam Badjie from The Gambia was trained to become a barefoot solar engineer at the Barefoot College in India. Mariam returned in May, 2007 to solar electrify her community in The Gambia.
Mariama only speaks Jola, a local dialect. She is 44 years old, a mother of four, married to a farmer and illiterate. She comes from a small village, Cafenke, of about 45 houses. She says she likes to learn new things and that it’s never too late to start.
Besides learning all about solar electrification in her 6 months of training at the College, she learned many Hindi words and through her friendship with the Bolivian women even started learning Spanish words. In her spare time, she began to study the alphabet and with the help of her new friends she learned how to sign her name.
To launch ODI's new event series - #GlobalChallenges - Professor Jeffrey Sachs discussed financing for sustainable development, focusing on the critical role of international public finance as a driver for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Professor Sachs was joined by Romilly Greenhill (ODI), Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen (Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations), and Aggrey Tisa Sabuni (Economic Adviser to the President, South Sudan). The event was chaired by Kevin Watkins (ODI).
For more about the event, visit: www.odi.org/events/4089-financing-sustainable-development
For more about the #GlobalChallenges event series, visit: www.odi.org/events/4088-globalchallenges
Fashion show Eco chic at Mikser festival presenting clothes made of waste materials - plastic bags, old CDs, plugs. UNDP supported the festival through the project Circular Economy for Sustainable Development in Serbia.
Photo: Momira Marković / UNDP Serbia
Children fetch water from a makeshift faucet, which will be used to wash their hands or flush the toilet in school. They stand to benefit from an ILO Japan Water and Sanitation Project that aims to provide safe and clean water as well as promote peace and create decent work in conflict-affected areas of the Philippines.
Know more about the project implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to promote peace and provide decent work, funded by the Government of Japan: bit.ly/ilowatsan
Photo ©ILO / Minette Rimando
28 January 2020
South Upi, Maguindanao, Philippines
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