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Tasneem Balasinorwala and Diya Deb Project funding decisions are primarily influenced by international commitments, national level commitments, donor country policies or development cooperation policies followed by stakeholder discussion deliberation and finally local needs. ‘We stopped

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/16/2022

Is Nature Based Solutions greenwashing-numerous organizations write an open letter

From the conservation industry’s perspective, the idea is simple: corporations pay them to enclose forests or plant trees on land they claim is “degraded” and which could absorb more carbon if restored. In return, the corporations claim that the climate damage from their ongoing gr

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/15/2022

UK governments new Environment Law puts into doubt their commitments made at COP 26

UK new Environment Act could fail to tackle much of the country’s deforestation footprint abroad, despite the UK government’s claims of a ‘world-leading’ law and their role in securing the Glasgow Declaration on Forests to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. The Department For

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 03/01/2022

Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories

Lívia Machado Costa New report shows that companies from Brazil and abroad are sieging sites of interest, even where mineral extraction is prohibited he search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as in

Biodiversity , Business , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Health , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 02/25/2022

A global plastic treaty on cards?

Plastic pollution is one of the key concerns for the entire globe at the moment. Something that started as a symbol of progress a few decades ago is out in the open as a killer that the humans find very difficult to control. It’s a menace from top to toe, from the production stage to the [&hell

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food , Health , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 01/31/2022

Food trade takes a mixed stance on new genetic engineering in EU

So far, GMO-free agriculture in Germany and Europe has been a success story: fields have been largely free of GM crops for years, and the direct use of GM crops in food has fallen through with consumers – which is why such products are not found in supermarkets. At the same time, explicitly GM

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Education , Environment , Forests , Labour , Resources , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/30/2022

Forget logging or hunting – two Assam villages in India embrace eco-tourism

Gurvinder Singh Giving up hunting and tree felling, two Assamese villages are conserving their forest habitat rather than let their natural resources erode. With their villages now on the eco-tourism map, they are embracing alternate livelihoods. Notun Leikol village in Assam is rich in natural beau

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/27/2022

Cover-up: Brazilian government plot to open up uncontacted tribe’s territory revealed

An extraordinary plot to open up an uncontacted tribe’s territory for exploitation, and suppress evidence of the tribe’s existence, has been revealed in Brazil. The cover-up involves top officials in FUNAI, the government Indigenous Affairs Agency, who have been hand-picked by President Bol

Business , Education , Environment , Launches & Events , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 01/18/2022

A new range of social innovators and business leaders awarded by Schwab Foundation

From a Brazilian entrepreneur using hip-hop to turn Favela youth away from crime, a Dutch nurse revolutionizing home healthcare and a park ranger turned tech founder using Minecraft to revive Australia’s Indigenous culture, the 2022 Social Innovators of the Year includes a list of outstanding foun

Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Economy , Energy , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development / 01/11/2022

NOAA Report Shows 310 Climate-Linked Disasters Cost US Over $2 Trillion Since 1980

Brett Wilkins This report underscores the reality of how the climate crisis is already affecting people’s lives and the economy As new statistics published Monday by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed the United States has sustained more than $2 trillion in dama

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