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Truck transporting gardening plants in downtown Nairobi.
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.
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
Joy: The community joining a mass round island cycling event to commemorate SWWD, culminating at Marina Barrage.
Photo by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency
Action at Rio+20, in light of serious backsliding on women's rights and issues in the draft outcome document being negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
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.
©FAO
The purpose of this field trip was to assess the progress of Unsi community's CDRD sub-project.
Unsi community 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.
Projet agricole collectif
Unité de méthanisation de 600 kWél
Valorisation de 21 000 tonnes de gisements par an
Procédé utilisé : infiniment mélangé
Valorisation thermique : séchage des digestats
En exploitation depuis 2012
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...
Une œuvre d’art encapsulée sous verre - Zoé Lavigne et Benoit Michaud – Paramètre Designlab inc. | A glass-encased work of art – Zoé Lavigne and Benoit Michaud – Paramètre Designlab inc.
In 2010, Living Earth Foundation launched the pan African Waste to Wealth programme. The project responds to specific challenges faced by poor people living in urban slums in Africa.
The programme encourages all sectors of society to develop collaborative solutions to tackle the challenges of waste management. We support entrepreneurs, micro enterprises, social ventures and community groups to generate an income through waste recycling, and to develop public private partnerships with local government to improve waste collection and waste management in poor slum areas.
Living Earth’s Waste to Wealth programme is funded by the European Union, the UK Government’s Department for International Development and Comic Relief, and is currently active in Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
Find out more here; wastetowealth.livingearth.org.uk/
IFPRI hosted a policy seminar titled “Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement” on December 3, 2015. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/economics-land-degradation-and-improv...
Pictured (L-R): Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, and Adjunct Professor of University of Iceland | Mark Rosegrant, Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI | Ephraim Nkonya, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI | Alisher Mirzabaev, senior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
©IFPRI/Milo Mitchell
The African mountains stand out as areas with favourable climatic and ecological conditions, in contrast to the surrounding lowlands that are generally much drier. As a consequence of this, the total average population density in all African mountains is more than double the density of the lowlands. The driving economic forces now have better knowledge about and access to the rich natural resources in the mountains, including hydropower, minerals, timber and agricultural soils.
In Uganda, participants have visited Mount Elgon and communities on its slopes to observe emerging micro-climate changes, their causes and effects so to discuss coping mechanisms and suitable adaptation strategies.
Read more on the initiative and the three Regional Meetings
www.mountainpartnership.org/eventspage/MountaiRegions/Mou...
Photo credit: ©FAO/Matthias Mugisha
You are welcome to use the photos from the Mountain Partnership photo gallery for non-commercial use. Please provide appropriate attribution, including the name of the photographer.
New York - UNDP HQ - 18 January 2016 - Appointment ceremony. From left to right: Jordi Roca, Josep Roca, and Joan Roca. © Freya Morales / UNDP
#Food4SDGs #SDGFund #CanRocaCeller #jordirocasan #JosepPituRoca #UNDP #foodie #SDG #newyork #pictureoftheday #photoftheday #gastronomy #cuisine #sustainabledevelopment #environment #foodsecurity
This used to be a former port and industrial area of Malmo which has been redeveloped into a new urban quarter. It provides a model for sustainable urban development where 100% of its energy comes from locally produced renewable sources, namely wind turbines and solar panels.
Development Strategy for the harbour:
www.malmo.se/servicemeny/malmostadinenglish/westernharbou...
Also a related article from the BBC
Berlin Natural History Museum, 27 March 2017
Copyright: Florian Gaertner/ photothek.net/ Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit
Projet de territoire
Unité de méthanisation de 750 kWél
Valorisation de 18 000 tonnes de gisements par an
Procédé utilisé : infiniment mélangé
Valorisation thermique : séchage des digestats
En exploitation depuis 2011
bit.ly/myhaven Toronto green home construction on Bishop, detail view of kitchen with walkout in background.
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
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
Photo courtesy of UCCRN
uccrn.org/2012/04/12/uccrnunisdr-from-sendai-to-rio-culti...
Moldova: Assessing pasture productivity. Pasture restoration activities were conducted covering 470 ha.
© Clima East
UNDP and the Global Environment Facility are working with national partners to help preserve biodiversity through improving policies and laws related to the fishery sector in Kyrgyzstan.
Read more about efforts to preserve biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Kyrgyzstan
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
The Jurong Lake District will be developed into a sustainable high-density district, with integrated greenery and waterways.
To find out more about the other strategies that make up Singapore's Sustainable Development Blueprint, please visit www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg
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.
In the five-week exhibition, visitors to the Federal Foreign Office will be able to find out more about their commitment to sustainability, climate protection and refugee and migration issues. The exhibition is open from the 6th April to May 10th in the Lichthof.
Read the whole stories: sdgactioncampaign.org
Copyright: Inga Kjer / photothek.net
2nd May 2016
Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General, ITU
From Bits to Bytes – Scaling Sustainable Development.
Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
©ITU/R.Farrell
“Before, we had a really old well where we collected water in buckets, by hand. It used to take up so much of the nurses time, going back and forth with buckets, and there was never enough water to ensure proper hygiene and cleanliness.”
- Bryma Gamanga, the Community Health Officer at Tiyama Hospital
Photo/quote by UNICEF
The purpose of this field trip was to assess the progress of Una community's CDRD sub-project.
Una community selected a community centre with two latrines and a water berkat for their sub-project proposal and this project was funded by MFA Finland.
The construction of the centre is complete. The toilets are almost complete.
The M&E Officer collected proposals, BOQS and First installment and collected the GPS coordinates and photographs of the sub projects.
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 main objective of the NEWater program is to provide a sustainable water source for Singapore’s population. NEWater is high-grade reclaimed water produced from treated used water that has undergone a stringent purification and treatment process using advanced dual-membrane (microfiltration and reverse osmosis) and ultraviolet technologies. While reclaiming used water is not a new concept, what is significant is the successful wide-scale implementation and public engagement plan of NEWater along with its participatory practices and public education programmes, which have allowed delivery of an exponentially successful service.
NEWater Program in Singapore
Photo by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency
Berlin Natural History Museum, 27 March 2017
Copyright: Florian Gaertner/ photothek.net/ Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit
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
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.
Un projet de serre résidentielle intégrée à son milieu naturel afin de maximiser son efficacité énergétique – Samuel Pelletier, Charles Boivin et Jean-François Marceau | A residential greenhouse project incorporated into its natural environment to maximize energy efficiency – Samuel Pelletier, Charles Boivin and Jean-François Marceau.
Sheep farmer in the Aberdare Mountains. With an average elevation of 3,500 meters, the Aberdares receive varying amounts of rainfall (between 1000-3000mm), giving rise to equally diverse ecosystems.
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.