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I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
It has been presented at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary meeting, the United Nations COP24 conference on climate change, a large exhibition held at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and the Environment Europe Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics and now at the United Nations World Urban Forum 2020. There are only 450 copies left so you will have to be quick: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
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Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of Amira Abi Khalil. She has owned and operated her brick and stone trading company for eighteen years since 1997. Lebanon emerged from a 15-year civil war in 1990, beginning its slow but steady recovery. Today it is considered an upper-middle-income country, but economic gains are inequitably distributed among social groups and skewed towards urban areas.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
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Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of clothing designer Lara Khoury in her studio in Beirut. Lebanon emerged from a 15-year civil war in 1990, beginning its slow but steady recovery. Today it is considered an upper-middle-income country, but economic gains are inequitably distributed among social groups and skewed towards urban areas.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
Read More about Supporting Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/su...
... I was asking myself, while shooting this one.
How long time will this land survive?
How long time will take to desapear all this ancient land?
The Amazon, at Pará State have been heavly destryoed, and despite all the national calls and alerts from organizations like Greenpeace, Projeto Saúde e Alegria, and others who work in the area, the problem is still there, increasing.
The actions of some companies like Cargill, that are deforesting large areas and planting soybean at the jungle, are inaceptable. There wouldn't be a problem if they were doing that in a sustainable project, but this is not happening, and what I saw was a
scaring
massive
desctruction
of the old forest, as a land without owner,
no respect, and no real law.
A sad truth about my country, a worst truth about everyone's future.
Amazon means life, water, and a vital balance of the most important
refrigerator system of our world. Please, watch this:
Shocking images from Amazon jungle
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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.
The desire to light up their communities and empower the women in them has proven a unifying bond. With just six months training in the college, students have shown that they can transcend tremendous barriers, and emerge as self-sustaining solar engineers and change-makers.
Participants from Liberia and Malawi at the end of their six-month solar engineering course. Today some participants will dress up and visit the local market, while the others are happily packing for their return to Africa. On the edge of the bed is the solar lantern kit that everyone of them will take home.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh
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(c) Dr Stanislav Shmelev
I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
It has been presented at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary meeting, the United Nations COP24 conference on climate change, a large exhibition held at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and the Environment Europe Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics and now at the United Nations World Urban Forum 2020. There are only 450 copies left so you will have to be quick: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
You are most welcome to explore my new website: stanislav.photography/ and a totally new blog: environmenteurope.wordpress.com/
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Solar thermal panels for the production of hot water in a live-in learning center of the french railroad company SNCF. The panels were provides by the austrian Tisun.
Sandy Lyen is a 20-something artisan woodworker and entrepreneur from Beirut, Lebanon. Like many young, educated Lebanese women today, Sandy is creating new and innovative opportunities for self-employment by tapping into Lebanon's growing market for locally-made artisanal goods. As a member and partial owner of a Beirut-based artisan cooperative, Sandy has access to a shared studio space and collectively-owned equipment. Through specialized relationships with urban retail outlets, Sandy and the other cooperative members can take their products directly to consumers and expand their professional networks by hosting public events and open-house exhibitions in one of Lebanon's most up-and-coming neighbourhoods.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
This symposium about Sustainable Development has been held ten years ago in a prestigious place of French State.
What have we done since that time ?
Our children are right to kick our ass !
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Ce colloque sur le développement durable s’est tenu il y a dix ans au Sénat, lieu prestigieux de l’État français.
Qu'avons-nous fait depuis ce temps?
Nos enfants ont raison de nous botter le cul!
This photo was taken of some brothers in a small village in Benin. Having traveled to the village over several years and several occasions has let everyone get comfortable taking photos. The village has no electricity, and these kids could not afford school, so returning with the photos each year is a wonderful time for everyone. I'm looking forward to my next visit.
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Solar energy systems providing power in remote, rural areas are installed by barefoot solar engineers trained by the Barefoot College.
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Romania is among the Most endowed European countries in terms of land, water, and people. Progress in agriculture could contribute to Romania’s overall economic growth, generation of public savings, and a more sustainable trade balance to benefit all Romanians. Photo: Jutta Benzenberg/World Bank
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
The Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and Economic Development Board (EDB) are developing the Jalan Bahar CleanTech Park for companies undertaking clean technology activities such as R&D, test-bedding, prototyping and light manufacturing.
The Park will showcase sustainable building and infrastructure features and provide a plug-and-play environment to facilitate test-bedding of Urban Solutions that are practical and scalable.
Discover more about the Jalan Bahar Clean Tech Park in the Sustainable Development Blueprint. Please visit www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg
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Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand
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(c) Dr Stanislav Shmelev
I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
It has been presented at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary meeting, the United Nations COP24 conference on climate change, a large exhibition held at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and the Environment Europe Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics and now at the United Nations World Urban Forum 2020. There are only 450 copies left so you will have to be quick: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
You are most welcome to explore my new website: stanislav.photography/ and a totally new blog: environmenteurope.wordpress.com/
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Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
Najwa Krishk Mortada co-owns a wheat processing shop with her husband. The machines are dangerous and this means they don’t want to employ anybody else. They work alone and trust each other. The work is seasonal - just three months of the year during the harvest. She is happy to have her work close to her house and to work alongside her husband.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
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
Bawor Mamma has spent years recovering from the lingering effects of civil war and economic dislocation in Liberia. At 53 she prefers assembling solar lanterns to the physical strain of farming. “I am not just a farmer like everyone else,” she says with a clear sense of pride. “I am a solar engineer now and I want to electrify my village and other neighbouring villages.”
Photo Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh
Rooftop gardens in public housing at Punggol provide more green spaces while optimising land use.
HDB targets to develop 9ha of green roofs on the top deck of existing multi-storey carparks in the residential heartlands over the next three years.
To find out more about the other strategies that make up Singapore's Sustainable Development Blueprint, please visit www.sustainablesingapore.gov.sg
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
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Photo credit: ©FAO/Matthias Mugisha
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Since decades, Chinese are using electric power to motorize scooters, bicycles, tricycles and so on …
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Wind energy is renewable and doesn't cost a thing! The kinetic energy held by wind is transformed in form of electricity by turbines. Using windmills, wind power is converted directly into energy for agricultural purposes such as grain grinding and water pumping.
These women from Khatlon province, Tajikistan excitedly admire tomatoes they just collected from their greenhouses. USAID Family Farming Program helped construct ten sets of greenhouses in four districts of Khatlon province. 420 people, primarily landless households, benefited from the greenhouses. The greenhouse program produced 59 metric tons of early tomatoes, of which 44 metric tons were sold at market and 15 metric tons were consumed or stored for winter use by the individual greenhouse owners. Greenhouse farmers increased their profits by approximately 34 percent in one planting season.
USAID/Sayora Khalimova
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
Michelle Martin is Executive Director of Sustainability for Seychelles (S4S), an NGO working on sustainable living, conservation, research and education in Seychelles. In addition to a number of projects, S4S, with a grant from UNDP’s Small Grants Programme, recently worked to help set up community-based organizations to address the increasing amount of solid waste going to landfill in Seychelles.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Photoshoot for the for the Sales and Marketing Section at the Bookshop of the , United Nations, New York, March 2018. Photo: United Nations/John Gillespie
MENNA – meaning ‘from us’, or ‘made by our hands’ in Arabic – is a nation-wide network of over 650 rural and refugee women producers and cooperatives in Lebanon. In 2015, Amel Association International – a grantee of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality – launched its first permanent MENNA shop in Beirut, giving network members a year-round space to sell their handmade goods to the public.
Pictured: Sofa M. Tofla works as a glass blower making products for sale to the public in the MENNA shop in Beirut.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
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