Sustainable Development – Page 72

Members of an Amazon tribe patrolling their rainforest reserve to protect uncontacted relatives from illegal loggers have seized a notorious logging gang, burned their truck, and expelled them from the jungle. The Guardians of the Amazon are from the Guajajara tribe: “We patrol, we find the lo

Aid , Climate , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/19/2018

Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean

Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital The global ocean is changing rapidly, with significant and increasing impacts on marine ecosystems, human lives and economies. Assessing the impacts

Aid , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 05/17/2018

Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us

Jindra Cekan Global development aid has a problem which may already affect impact investing as well. It is that we think it’s really all about us (individuals, wealthy donors and INGO implementers) not all of us (you, me, and project participants, their partners and governments). It’s also a

Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Waste / 05/16/2018

Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong

Josh Lepawsky Waste arises ubiquitously, but unevenly, throughout the lives of electronics, not only when users discard their devices. No amount of post-consumer recycling can recoup the waste generated before consumers purchase their devices. Many of us think we know what electronic waste is becaus

Environment , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 05/16/2018

U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.

Virginia Gewin There are still relatively few connections between communities of color and the environmental sector. The ongoing lack of ethnic diversity on environmental organization boards and staff suggests that, overall, talk of increasing diversity has not turned into widespread action. Eddie L

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Forests , Migration / 05/14/2018

Climate change could put food supply for migratory birds at risk

Augusta Dwyer Along with rising sea levels and disrupted weather patterns, climate change could also have a potentially harmful impact on migratory birds. That finding comes from a new study carried out by ornithologists at Cornell University, recently published in Ecology Letters. The study used c

Aid , Corruption , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Opinions , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 05/11/2018

Development workers behaving badly

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Is it really the much-awaited #MeToo or #TimesUp moment of the development industry? Now that the waves of reactions and counter-reactions have subsided, I ask if it is possible to rethink the infamous ‘Oxfam incident’. To put it briefly, the charity’s high-level profession

Environment , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/10/2018

HydroConference: a very urgent need to improve water management

A three-day conference on hydrological services therefore sought to address the urgent need to improve forecasting, management and use of water supplies and to tackle the problem of too much, too little or too polluted water. The HydroConference, from 7 to 9 May in Geneva, brought together 215 pr

Corruption , Featured , Gender , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Videos / 05/09/2018

ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho

Brent Foster Beatrice Nyariara lives in Korogocho. It’s widely considered to be Nairobi’s most dangerous slum. More than 150,000 people are packed into the shanty town which is less than two square kilometers. Crime is high. Gangs are active. Addiction is rampant. A while back, men in he

Environment , Governance , Interviews , Sustainable Development / 05/07/2018

Bhutan to graduate from being a Least Developed Country

Dawa Gyelmo Secretary of Gross National Happiness Commission spoke to thethirdpole.net about what this milestone means for Bhutan Bhutan is about to graduate from being one of the world’s Least Development Countries (LDCs), as defined by the UN. The world’s 47 LDCs comprise about 880 million peo

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