December 23rd, 2011 Thriving Neighbourhoods 2012 is an international conference on emerging approaches to the planning, design and management of local neighbourhoods that are set to radically improve health, social engagement, environmental quality, productivity and the sustainable prosperity of communities. Thriving communities have the resilience needed to adapt creatively to unexpected challenges such as climate change, population change, [...]
December 8th, 2011 PARIS (IDN) – How to scale up, deliver and better direct international public climate finance has been a subject of discussion at the global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) apportioned up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15 percent of [...]
November 30th, 2011 From 7-9 December, 2011 Germany will host a workshop in Bonn in coordination with UNEP for about 100 international experts. The workshop will prepare the 2nd session of theIPBES plenary scheduled for April 2012 and focus on theIPBES topic "policy support/policy relevance". This topic is of particular interest from a German point of view. It [...]
November 11th, 2011 Further down the line, next year’s Rio+20 meeting will be an opportunity to take stock of what progress has — and has not — taken place in the 20 years since the 1992 Earth Summit in the same city, which placed sustainable development on the international political agenda and resulted in treaties on climate change, [...]
September 15th, 2011 In a live and interactive web TV programme from New York, two of the key figures driving the response to the planet’s loss of biodiversity will be answering you questions about the UNDB. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Monique Barbut, CEO and Chair of the Global Environment Facility [...]
September 12th, 2011 The Post Graduate Certificate on Environmental Management (PCEM), the first training course of the ECO Institute of Environmental Science and technology (ECO-IEST) was inaugurated on Sunday 12 September. Representatives from Afghanistan, Georgia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Turkey are participating in the course.
September 5th, 2011 A three-day International Greening Education Event will be held from 19th to 21st of October, 2011 in the green city of Karlsruhe, Germany. An excursion (optional) on Saturday the 22nd of October, 2011 is planned which will also provide an additional and informal networking opportunity.
August 10th, 2011 This questionnaire is anonymous and is expected to take approximately 30 minutes to complete. In this survey, you are invited to consider 4 identified options for the organization of international, interdisciplinary scientific advice to the UNCCD. An opportunity for you to suggest an additional option, if you so wish, is included at the end of [...]
July 1st, 2011 In 2011, the 40th anniversary of the creation of the MAB Programme provides the opportunity for a new stocktaking of experience gained and lessons learned. Among planned activities is a web-based forum, in which various dimensions and activities of MAB will be addressed. The idea is to encourage contributions on what has been learned over [...]
June 14th, 2011 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), together with 17 multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), has launched a new webportal, titled "InforMEA," that draws information from the MEAs’ individual websites to permit a user to search for information related to decisions and resolutions, news and events, meeting calendars, and national focal points across all of the participating MEAs.
