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The clean up of Brandt's Creek, located at the centre of the property, was the focus of CLC’s remediation efforts. At the time, the creek was heavily polluted and crossed the property through a series of culverts and shallow ditches. CLC developed a 4.4-acre (1.8-hectare) stream protection corridor, reinstating Brandt's Creek as a 350-metre waterway.
The new native plantings and natural structures restored the stream bank and in stream character of Brandt's Creek. This led to the return of a number of natural species to the property, including the great blue heron -- a majestic bird that had not been seen along the creek for several years.
Today, Brandt’s Creek Crossing is a thriving residential neighbourhood in one of B.C.’s fastest growing cities. The completed project is a testament to CLC’s strong commitment to environmental remediation.
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Les efforts de nettoyage de la SIC ont été axés sur le ruisseau Brandt, au centre de la propriété. À l’époque, le ruisseau était très pollué et franchissait la propriété par une série de buses et de fossés peu profonds. La SIC a établi un corridor de protection du ruisseau de 4,4 acres (1,8 hectare) et a retracé le ruisseau Brandt sur une distance de 350 mètres.
Le recours à des plantes indigènes et à des structures naturelles a permis de restaurer les berges du ruisseau, et de lui redonner un caractère naturel plus invitant pour la faune. De nombreuses espèces sont donc revenues dans le secteur, y compris le grand héron – un oiseau imposant qui n’avait pas été observé sur la berge depuis des années.
Aujourd’hui, Brandt’s Creek Crossing est un quartier résidentiel animé situé dans une des villes à la croissance la plus rapide en C.-B. Ce projet illustre l’engagement de la SIC en matière d’assainissement environnemental.
High Level panel on "Can Oil and Gas Fuel the transition to a Green Economy (j.mp/GSSDhlp)
Photo by Kire Godal
Global South-South Development Expo 2013 - Solution Forum 2 - Clean Technologies for Green Industry (j.mp/GSSDsf2)
Photo by Kire Godal
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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/
bit.ly/myhaven Toronto green home on Howland, detail view of upper level shelving and skylight resolution.
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The Secondary school covers 6 host-communities in the Zalingei region along with some children of nomad pastoralists. It serves 780 girls with 13 classrooms.
The Community-Driven Development grant covered the rehabilitation of 2 classrooms, the construction of 1 classroom and the construction and an office. The community contributed sand, soil, compact soil and water.
Before this there were more than 80 students in one classroom. This development helped to increase the attendance, as well as space for the existing students.
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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
The CFI provided funds UBC's Amanda Vincent needed to purchase "Bancas" - boats fishermen use in the Philippines that Vincent's team outfitted to be their primary research and diving vessel. From the back of these bancas her team slips into coastal waters to find seahorse.
Photo by Project Seahorse.
For more on Project Seahorse, click here: seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/
Putisinos harvesting potatoes cultivated as part of "Paradero Esperanza," a sustainable development project started by EPAF in 2010. Putis, department of Ayacucho. May 27, 2011. Photo by Catherine Binet.
IRU African Symposium on trade and road transport facilitation brings together ministerial, policy and business delegates from 20 African countries to drive economic and social development by promoting and facilitating trade and international road transport.
Read more: www.iru.org/en_news_item?story=1988
Global South-South Development Expo 2013 - Solution Forum 6 - Development of Green Economies through Regional Action Plans and Public-Private Partnerships (j.mp/GSSDsf6)
Photo by Davide Piga
The Smart Move Workshop on Passenger Transport Terminals held in Latvia today, stressed the need for bus and coach operators to be given free access to other transport modes’ terminals in order to provide seamless multi-modal sustainable travel services to customers.
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/
High Level panel on "Can Oil and Gas Fuel the transition to a Green Economy (j.mp/GSSDhlp)
Photo by Kire Godal
Global South-South Development Expo 2013 - Solution Forum 6 - Development of Green Economies through Regional Action Plans and Public-Private Partnerships (j.mp/GSSDsf6)
Photo by Kire Godal
Global South-South Development Expo 2013 - High Level Forum of Directors-General for Development Cooperation (j.mp/GSSDhlf)
Photo by Kile Godal
Putis women watching Putisinos at work in the potato fields. Department of Ayacucho. May 27, 2011. Photo by Catherine Binet.
Ms Nadine Smith (front row, writing), an adviser on Climate Change and Development at Commonwealth Youth event@ Rio+20, Braziil on 17 June 2012. On her right is Mr Christophe Raoelina from the Island Project of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC).(Photo by Julius Mucunguzi/Commonwealth Secretariat)
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The event aimed to shed new light on the implications of the digital transformation in the context of sustainable development.
The problem of carbon emissions is global and reaches all countries, resulting from similar development patterns all around the world. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs noting, how the development of emerging economies, China and India, has brought an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. IEA listed annual emissions reaching 31,6 billion tons in 2011, a record high.
www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1015&n...
In the Rio+20 conference, there is much discussion about a future of low-carbon economy, renewable energies, green jobs and similar solutions to provide less carbon-intensive development paths. In the case of developing countries, also the term "leapfrogging" (over the polluting phase of heavy industry) is used.
Developing countries consider technology transfer as essential to them, but the discussion is politicized, as advanced countries want to protect intellectual property rights (IPR).
Global South-South Development Expo 2013 - Solution Forum 6 - Development of Green Economies through Regional Action Plans and Public-Private Partnerships (j.mp/GSSDsf6)
Photo by Kire Godal
Tues 5 Feb 2013: UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Singapore held a seminar to showcase business and cooperation opportunities for UK and Singapore companies in the Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Solutions space in key emerging markets, including China and Burma.
©EIF/Simon Hess.
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Pavillion
The clean up of Brandt's Creek, located at the centre of the property, was the focus of CLC’s remediation efforts. At the time, the creek was heavily polluted and crossed the property through a series of culverts and shallow ditches. CLC developed a 4.4-acre (1.8-hectare) stream protection corridor, reinstating Brandt's Creek as a 350-metre waterway.
The new native plantings and natural structures restored the stream bank and in stream character of Brandt's Creek. This led to the return of a number of natural species to the property, including the great blue heron -- a majestic bird that had not been seen along the creek for several years.
Today, Brandt’s Creek Crossing is a thriving residential neighbourhood in one of B.C.’s fastest growing cities. The completed project is a testament to CLC’s strong commitment to environmental remediation.
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Pavillon
Les efforts de nettoyage de la SIC ont été axés sur le ruisseau Brandt, au centre de la propriété. À l’époque, le ruisseau était très pollué et franchissait la propriété par une série de buses et de fossés peu profonds. La SIC a établi un corridor de protection du ruisseau de 4,4 acres (1,8 hectare) et a retracé le ruisseau Brandt sur une distance de 350 mètres.
Le recours à des plantes indigènes et à des structures naturelles a permis de restaurer les berges du ruisseau, et de lui redonner un caractère naturel plus invitant pour la faune. De nombreuses espèces sont donc revenues dans le secteur, y compris le grand héron – un oiseau imposant qui n’avait pas été observé sur la berge depuis des années.
Aujourd’hui, Brandt’s Creek Crossing est un quartier résidentiel animé situé dans une des villes à la croissance la plus rapide en C.-B. Ce projet illustre l’engagement de la SIC en matière d’assainissement environnemental.
IRU African Symposium on trade and road transport facilitation brings together ministerial, policy and business delegates from 20 African countries to drive economic and social development by promoting and facilitating trade and international road transport.
Read more: www.iru.org/en_news_item?story=1988
Newport Beach, CA – September 4, 2022 — The August 31st report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights outlines the human rights violations and abuses occurring in Xinjiang. It concludes that “the extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of the Uyghur and predominantly Muslim groups… may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity,” and that “serious human rights violations have been committed” in Xinjiang.
The following is the message of Global Bank Group President Ron Nechemia on the occasion of the release of the report on the Human Rights Situation in Xinjiang on September 1, 2022, by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, China:
Mr Ron Nechemia welcomed the report’s release on Thursday, saying in a statement that the report deepens and reaffirms that “there is cause for grave concern regarding any ongoing violations that constitute international crimes, in particular, crimes against humanity” that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government authorities are perpetrating against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups.
Global Bank Group “strongly condemns any human rights violations,” including those delineated in the UN report regarding acts perpetrated against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups by the People’s Republic of China government authorities. Mr Nechemia expressed his concern and stressed the gravity of the report’s findings.
Global Bank Group stands with countries and people around the world against crimes against humanity committed in the Xinjiang region in China, where more than a million people have been placed arbitrarily in detention camps for their ethnic and religious identities.
China’s obligations under international human rights law are contained principally in the human rights treaties to which China is a State Party, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
China is bound by human rights norms that are accepted as constituting customary international law, notably concerning the right to life, the prohibition of discrimination based on race, religion, marital status or sex, and the right to freedom of religion.
Global Bank Group will continue to raise these issues and call for change – not to stand against China, but to stand up for peace, security, and human dignity.
Our organisational purpose, and values, are in the Global Bank Charter. The central role of the Global Bank Group is embracing the Bank Group’s ideals and values enshrined in the Global Bank Charter; respect for fundamental human rights of men and women, social justice and human dignity, peace and security, the worth of the human person, self-determination of peoples, social progress and development, and leave no one behind.
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