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Berlin Natural History Museum, 27 March 2017
Copyright: Florian Gaertner/ photothek.net/ Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit
FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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Farmer and co-founder of F3 Life in the Aberdare Mountains. As the farmland is located on a hillside, it is susceptible to erosion during heavy rains. This farmer collaborated with F3 Life, an eco-credit company, implementing climate-smart practices (e.g. establishing contour barriers) to minimize erosion in exchange for loans with preferred interest rates.
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.
A wet day that never (quite) got so bad we gave up saw Manch. WDM /JDC group at Didsbury Festival. We collected cards to MPs mandating them to write to Nick Clegg expressing concerns about promoting the "financialising" of environmental commons at the Rio+20 UN Sustainable Development conference. Most of the cards were for the constituency MP John Leech (see yesterday's action) and these were taken to put through his office letterbox to underline the concerns delivered previously. Other MP's cards were also collected.
We also collected petition links for the "Jubilee for Justice" campaign, signatures for the End Dodgy Deals/ End Dictator Debt campaign, and distributed copies of JDC's last "Drop it!".
Not having sides on the Gazebo, a lot of paper got damp, little too damp.
In a short time when it wasn't raining too much an old friend and former colleague came for a chat and signed cards- but her son was a bit bashful about being photographed!
The cost of disasters were summed up last night in dollars lost, people displaced, lives lost as one would expect at a meeting hosted by Columbia University with the theme "From Sendai to Rio -- Cultivating a Disaster-Resilient Society for Sustainable Development."
However, what also shone through in this major debate on the theme of disaster risk reduction in advance of the Rio+20 conference, were the unexpected ways in which disasters can affect our lives driven by new forces which Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, said "we are not ready for."
Read more: www.unisdr.org/archive/26190
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IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.
On Monday, after dropping my son off at the Airport in his shiny black Chevy Volt I hung out in Winthrop to avoid the morning rush traffic into Boston. I headed in around 10am to US Fed District Court to pick up a Pass for Media coverage of the same. I turned left on Farnsworth thinking it was a through street. Instead it was a dead end with RCN on the right and what? on the left. I tried both ends for another outlet out. Then turned around heading a right turn out onto Farnsworth. Whatever happened that I did not see this short pile of cones was beyond me., In a split second it seemed I was hearing sounds no one wants to hear. I backed up and knew there had been some serious damage., OMG what a shame. I think it was the sun coming over the buildings as the only shot I have here is from an hour or so later and it was still piercing down pretty bright. I saw nothing. I was so shocked and saddened. My journey into the City was so pleasant driving slowly from 99 to South Station. I thought that was a cool way to come in again . I had never tried that and I loved that route. Then this happened. I had fire police ambulance tow trucks and me delivered to a Body Shop in Revere I had experience with before by 3pm I was ready to bus it home. Got home at 800pm. What a day you don't want to happen. The Fire Department said this never should have been there and removed the 36inch pipe putting it against the wall. They stuffed the cones into the hole and then the police showed up. The police paid a visit to the building 46 Farnsworth and that manager came out and stated the property was owned by Boston Globe or Sustainable Development. Whoever stuffed that pipe into the hole was what I call meathead anonymous. I will forever be ungrateful for that move. Can you hear plastic crunching and metal scraping and grimy fluid draining like blood on the gound? Sad Sad Sad
Mariama Badjie and Aji Camara, two African women trained by the Barefoot College in Tilonia, at a ceremony celebrating the opening of the rural solar electronics workshop.
Cycling has become a convenient mode of transport for intra-town travel and short trips to key transport nodes.
It is also is a clean, green and healthy form of commuting. Bicycles do not pollute the air and require no fuel.
We have put in place infrastructure, such as park connectors, to promote cycling as a recreational activity. More will be done to promote cycling as an alternative mode of transport, especially for travelling within towns and short distance commuting to key public transport facilities (such as MRT stations and bus interchanges).
To find out more about the other strategies that make up Singapore's Sustainable Development Blueprint, please visit www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg
Structure PolyTri IA:
Une structure artistique pour supporter une poubelle intelligente capable de tri sélectif de matières résiduelles. - Paul Clas - PolyAI Polytechnique Montréal | An artistic structure used by a smart garbage for waste sorting. - Paul Clas - PolyAI Polytechnique Montréal.
Students perform a drama which demonstrates the important of the sanitation at Maskoke Primely and Secondly School in Gode Town in Somali region of Ethiopia 11 February 2014. In Somali Region water supply coverage is estimated at 59.7%, lower than the national average of 68.5%. The need for water supply normally increases in the dry season, especially at the time of drought such as in recent years. However, the technical and organizational capacity of the Somali Regional State Water Resources Development Bureau (SRWDB) the government agency responsible for water supply and facilities management in the region to satisfy the water supply need is not adequate to cope with the situation. Donor agencies and NGOs are making efforts to ameliorate the situation by constructing and repairing water supply facilities across the region, supplying water by water trucks during chronic shortages, but the supply is still significantly below the demand.
House of the Children is giving children the opportunity to FLUSH in the remote Amazon of Peru. Our highly successful WASH programming; clean H2O, sanitation and health education for children is transforming their health. The children are in charge of daily maintenance of the structure, and the village water committee maintains the overall state of the structure ongoing.. www.houseofthechildren.org
Quelques photos des animaux du ZooParc de Beauval où en mars 2014, l'unité de méthanisation construite par Naskeo Environnement a été mise en service.
Découvrez le projet développement durable du ZooParc de Beauval :
www.acteurdurable.org/usine-de-methanisation-et-developpe...
Quelques photos des animaux du ZooParc de Beauval où en mars 2014, l'unité de méthanisation construite par Naskeo Environnement a été mise en service.
Découvrez le projet développement durable du ZooParc de Beauval :
www.acteurdurable.org/usine-de-methanisation-et-developpe...
From intensifying hurricanes to melting icecaps, climate change is causing unprecedented disruption around the globe.
And it is the largest single threat to sustainable development.
Our region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is no exception. In the last three decades alone, floods, droughts and melting glaciers have caused 50,000 fatalities, affected nearly 25 million people and resulted in over US$80 billion in damage.
In Belarus, we helped build the country’s biggest wind-farm. Wind energy could help Belarus become energy-independent by 2050.
Read more: bit.ly/3bZ3GMU
Photo: UNDP Belarus / Sergei Gapon
On Monday, after dropping my son off at the Airport in his shiny black Chevy Volt I hung out in Winthrop to avoid the morning rush traffic into Boston. I headed in around 10am to US Fed District Court to pick up a Pass for Media coverage of the same. I turned left on Farnsworth thinking it was a through street. Instead it was a dead end with RCN on the right and what? on the left. I tried both ends for another outlet out. Then turned around heading a right turn out onto Farnsworth. Whatever happened that I did not see this short pile of cones was beyond me., In a split second it seemed I was hearing sounds no one wants to hear. I backed up and knew there had been some serious damage., OMG what a shame. I think it was the sun coming over the buildings as the only shot I have here is from an hour or so later and it was still piercing down pretty bright. I saw nothing. I was so shocked and saddened. My journey into the City was so pleasant driving slowly from 99 to South Station. I thought that was a cool way to come in again . I had never tried that and I loved that route. Then this happened. I had fire police ambulance tow trucks and me delivered to a Body Shop in Revere I had experience with before by 3pm I was ready to bus it home. Got home at 800pm. What a day you don't want to happen. The Fire Department said this never should have been there and removed the 36inch pipe putting it against the wall. They stuffed the cones into the hole and then the police showed up. The police paid a visit to the building 46 Farnsworth and that manager came out and stated the property was owned by Boston Globe or Sustainable Development. Whoever stuffed that pipe into the hole was what I call meathead anonymous. I will forever be ungrateful for that move. Can you hear plastic crunching and metal scraping and grimy fluid draining like blood on the gound? Sad Sad Sad
An experimental field with a new rice plant variety 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
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.
On Monday, after dropping my son off at the Airport in his shiny black Chevy Volt I hung out in Winthrop to avoid the morning rush traffic into Boston. I headed in around 10am to US Fed District Court to pick up a Pass for Media coverage of the same. I turned left on Farnsworth thinking it was a through street. Instead it was a dead end with RCN on the right and what? on the left. I tried both ends for another outlet out. Then turned around heading a right turn out onto Farnsworth. Whatever happened that I did not see this short pile of cones was beyond me., In a split second it seemed I was hearing sounds no one wants to hear. I backed up and knew there had been some serious damage., OMG what a shame. I think it was the sun coming over the buildings as the only shot I have here is from an hour or so later and it was still piercing down pretty bright. I saw nothing. I was so shocked and saddened. My journey into the City was so pleasant driving slowly from 99 to South Station. I thought that was a cool way to come in again . I had never tried that and I loved that route. Then this happened. I had fire police ambulance tow trucks and me delivered to a Body Shop in Revere I had experience with before by 3pm I was ready to bus it home. Got home at 800pm. What a day you don't want to happen. The Fire Department said this never should have been there and removed the 36inch pipe putting it against the wall. They stuffed the cones into the hole and then the police showed up. The police paid a visit to the building 46 Farnsworth and that manager came out and stated the property was owned by Boston Globe or Sustainable Development. Whoever stuffed that pipe into the hole was what I call meathead anonymous. I will forever be ungrateful for that move. Can you hear plastic crunching and metal scraping and grimy fluid draining like blood on the gound? Sad Sad Sad
New peanut varieties developed by scientists at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA). They have worked closely with the IAEA to develop new plant varieties of crops 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
Quelques photos des animaux du ZooParc de Beauval où en mars 2014, l'unité de méthanisation construite par Naskeo Environnement a été mise en service.
Découvrez le projet développement durable du ZooParc de Beauval :
www.acteurdurable.org/usine-de-methanisation-et-developpe...
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.
The Oxford Summer and Winter Schools in Ecological Economics organized by Environment Europe have attracted high level participants from Canada, USA, Mexico, St Lucia, Equador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Bosnia, Latvia, Ghana, Nigeria, China, India, Taiwan, and Australia.
You will find more on the programme and registration following this link: environmenteurope.org/education/1
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The purpose of this field trip was to assess the progress of Unsi community's CDRD sub-project.
Here you can see some members of the Community Project Implementation Unit (CPIU) of Unsi community who selected a shallow well as their sub-project and this was funded by MFA Finland.
The well will support 370 women and 576 women once it is operational.
The United Nations has launched the first system-wide Social Innovation Competition, asking Macedonians to share their ideas about how health services can be brought closer to rural women and men.
Photo: UNDP fYR Macedonia
Farmers in rural Kenya. In 2016, 75% of Kenya's population lived in rural areas.
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.
Photos from the WTO Public Forum 2017 photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © WTO/Jay Louvion
Hornbills are large birds and there are only 54 species of them worldwide. There has been no record of the breeding of this hornbill species in Singapore since at least 1855, although birds have occasionally been spotted in Singapore up until the 1920s.
Therefore, it was indeed surprising to find the Oriental Pied Hornbill breeding in Pulau Ubin in 1997, as they require large trees for their nest holes. The hornbill population has grown since they started breeding naturally in Pulau Ubin and NParks currently monitors around 45 to 50 hornbills around Pulau Ubin and the Changi area.
Find out what else Singapore is doing to promote species conversation and enhance biodiversity. Check out the Sustainable Development Blueprint at www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg.
To send a strong message to world leaders, Heads of State and government negotiators WWF inflated a giant hot air balloon (28 metres high), covered in a large banner which reads "#GetSeRIOus+20" and "#LevemaSéRIO+20" at a key location on the way into the Rio Earth Summit. 19 June 2012, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.
Workers in the Aberdare Mountains. As the farmland is located on a hillside, it is susceptible to erosion during heavy rains. This farm collaborated with F3 Life, an eco-credit company, implementing climate-smart practices (e.g. establishing contour barriers) to minimize erosion in exchange for loans with preferred interest rates.
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.
Photos from the WTO Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © STDF/José Carlos Alexandre
Photos from the WTO Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © WTO/Jay Louvion
Vice President Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy attends the ceremony for the inauguration of the rural solar electronic workshop.
La première convention d'injection de biométhane à base de fumier équin.
Projet de territoire
Unité de méthanisation avec injection de biométhane sur le réseau
Valorisation de 30 000 tonnes de gisements par an
Procédé utilisé : voie sèche continue
Début du chantier prévu pour l'été 2014
Here applauding a speech by Dr. Joshua Zivin, the journal adviser and head of the Columbia PhD program in Sustainable Development.
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.
The Singapore International Water Week provides a global platform for water solutions. It brings together policy makers, industry leaders and experts to discuss water solutions, showcase technologies and celebrate technological achievements in water management.
Find out what else Singapore is doing to promote and build environmentally sustainable cities beyond our shores. Check out the Sustainable Development Blueprint at www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg.