Climate engineering: Technical status, future directions, and potential responses

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

There are two new reports out on geoengineering that we would like to bring to your attention. First of all the long-awaited “technology assessment” done by the US Government Accountability Office has just been released in Washington – as hundreds of protestors continue to be arrested for opposing the Keystone pipeline that will carry …

Rio+20: Making it Happen, Volume 2, Issue 10, 31 May

kristyGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen, Earth Systems Science

Among other events and issues, it also provides an update on the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announces the NRF call for views on the expected political outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference and touches on World Environment Day (5 June) and World Day to Combat Desertification and …

World Future Council: Newsletter 1/2011 English

kristyGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting

Dear friends! 3.2.2011 2011 has been declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations General Assembly. The World Future Council honours the UN commitment to this vital cause and will therefore present its Future Policy Award to the best forest protection policies. It has already attracted a strong …

ENB on the Side – Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity – Issue #1

Ethical MarketsEarth Systems Science

Lessons Learned from Tracking the Current Target, and Next Steps for Post-2010 Presented by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change The session on lessons learned from tracking the 2010 Biodiversity Target and next steps for post-2010 was chaired by Leon Bennun, Birdlife International, who noted that the key question …

Trade Unions Call for Action on Biodiversity

kristyEarth Systems Science

Brussels, 20 October 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Maintaining biodiversity is a central issue for working people and their communities around the planet, including through the creation of decent jobs, protection of livelihoods and ensuring resilience to climate change, according to the ITUC in its submission to biodiversity talks currently underway in …

Innovative Financing for Biodiversity

kristyGreen Prosperity

An update on the GDM Initiative At the 9th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity which took place in May 2008, the Parties called for “studies on approaches to develop markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services at local, national and international levels.” They also agreed …

UN Proposes Rescue Package to Halt Loss of Biodiversity

kristyTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

GENEVA (IDN) – Ecosystems — and the biodiversity that underpins them — support livelihoods around the world and generate services worth between $21 trillion and up to $72 trillion a year. This is comparable to World Gross National Income in 2008 of $58 trillion, according to the UN Environment Programme …

Briefing Note on the CBD ABS Negotiations

kristyEarth Systems Science

Friday, 24 September 2010 SUMMARY OF THE INTERREGIONAL NEGOTIATING GROUP ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 18-21 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Interregional negotiating group (ING) established to negotiate a draft international protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) to implement the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met from 18-21 September …