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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
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
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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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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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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The Castlerigg Stone Circle in the Lake District is a 5000 years old prehistoric monument, which is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
I am delighted to let you know that my art has been chosen among 12082 works from all over the world to be shown at the Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition in Venice. The show brings together the very best of contemporary art of 2021 from all around the world. Location: L'Arsenale di Venezia where La Biennale is taking place. Time: October 2021: artelaguna.world/photograph/magical-realism-2.30321/
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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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
Studies have shown that climate change will cause a shift of climatic zones in the ecosystems of Altai-Sayan, resulting in the migration of animals and plants. 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
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
Climate change has taken its toll on rural Uzbekistan, degrading pastureland and depleting livestock. However, one remote village has demonstrated that it can adapt to the effects of climate change – and even increase people’s income at the same time.
The inhabitants of Kyzyl Ravat, a remote village in the Kyzylkum desert of Uzbekistan, have employed a range of techniques to improve herding and breeding practices for their sheep and cattle. In the process, they raised the productivity of their cattle by 36 percent and increased their income by 32 percent.
Photo: UNDP Uzbekistan
Over the last twenty years, it is conservatively estimated that disasters have killed 1.3 million people, affected 4.4 billion and resulted in economic losses of $2 trillion. These are staggering numbers when you consider what it means in terms of missed opportunities, shattered lives, lost housing, schools and health facilities destroyed, cultural losses and roads washed away.
Read more and download the PDF here: www.unisdr.org/archive/27162
Also check out our Rio+20 and DRR webpage - www.unisdr.org/2012/rioplus20/
Green pepper farmer prunes his pepper trees. In 2009, the land behind him, now home to 1,200 hectares of pepper trees, was barren. This was part of the Changjiang/Pearl River Watershed Rehabilitation Project which aimed to improve farmer's livelihoods and protect the environment in poor and highly degraded watersheds of the Changjing and Pearl River Basins. Chongqing, China. Photo: Li Wenyong / World Bank
This is the cover for a young person's book about promoting partnerships for sustainable development. More info is available at www.inthebigforest.org
Across the ocean in West Africa is a small country called Benin. In Benin there is a village called Zoungbomey, which means “in the big forest.”
The women in Zoungbomey work together to make palm oil. People in Benin use palm oil for cooking, for making soap, and for making candles. The women in Zoungbomey walk a few miles carrying the heavy containers of palm oil to the local market. At the market, they sell the palm oil and use the money to buy food for the village.
The people who live in Zoungbomey had a dream. They dreamed that one day they would be able to buy a machine to help them make palm oil. This would help the village buy healthy food to eat, help them send their children to the school, and help them see a doctor when they are sick. But saving enough money to buy the palm oil machine was going to take a long time. The village needed some help to make its dream come true.
This is the real life story of the events in Zoungbomey.
I've also been interviewed by photography Martin Bailey about the book. You can here the story about the photos in the book here: mbp.ac/278
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
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
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
The Castlerigg Stone Circle in the Lake District is a 5000 years old prehistoric monument, which is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
I am delighted to let you know that my art has been chosen among 12082 works from all over the world to be shown at the Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition in Venice. The show brings together the very best of contemporary art of 2021 from all around the world. Location: L'Arsenale di Venezia where La Biennale is taking place. Time: October 2021: artelaguna.world/photograph/magical-realism-2.30321/
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/
#Neowise #Comet #Komet #Comete #комета #stars #sky #blue #galaxy #Solar #system #8600 years
#EnvironmentEurope #EcologicalEconomics #ECOSYSTEMS #sustainability #GreenEconomy #renewables #CircularEconomy #Anthropocene #ESG #cities #resources #values #governance #greenfinance #sustainablefinance #climate #climatechange #stonehenge #stone #monument #anceient #history #avebury #climateemergency #renewableenergy #planetaryboundaries #democracy #energy #accounting #tax #ecology #art #environment #SustainableDevelopment #contemporary #photography #nature #biodiversity #conservation #coronavirus #nature #protection #jungle #forest #palm #tree #Japan #Europe #USA #South #America #Colombia #Brazil #France #Denmark #Russia #Kazakhstan #Germany #Austria #Singapore #Albania #Italy #landscape #new #artwork #collect #follow #like #share #film #medium #format #Hasselblad #Nikon #CarlZeiss #lens #photography
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.
Water-related images are projected onto the General Assembly building on the occasion of the International Decade for Action on "Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028", organized by the office of the President of the General Assembly.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
23 March 2018
United Nations, New York
Photo # 755052
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
See More: youtu.be/urs1bepyh1c
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
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center background) visits the historic centre of Quito Ecuador during his trip to attend the Second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments and to address the opening of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) on 17 October.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Quito, Ecuador
Photo # 699251
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
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
Deyanira Cordoba belongs to a family of coffee growers of Tablon de Gomez, in the of Nariño region of Colombia. As part of a UN Women project, she has learned about her economic rights, bodily autonomy and more. The future holds many possibilities for this talented artist and coffee grower, but whichever path she chooses, she feels she belongs with her community, in the mountains of Colombia, watching the coffee grow.
Two years after the historic peace agreement that formally ended five decades of conflict between the Government of Colombia and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), peace is intimately linked with economic empowerment, justice and decent life. For the coffee-growing women of Tablón de Gómez, life is safer, at last. Now they are working to make their lives better, growing coffee and sowing peace.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/5/from-where-i-stand...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Solar energy systems providing power in remote, rural areas are installed by barefoot solar engineers trained by the Barefoot College.
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 above, Women’s Cooperative Leader Daed Ismaiel makes a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut.
The Mawasem El Dayaa Women’s Cooperative is among the last producers of this signature bread and one of 14 rural women’s cooperatives to benefit from the vocational trainings and market opportunities offered by Amel Association’s MENNA project.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
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Lebanon, 2015.
Amira Abi Khalil operates a forklift to move palettes of tile. 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
Read More about Supporting Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/su...