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1 Noviembre 2021
Authors: 
David Kaimowitz
Global

As leaders from around the globe gather for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26), it is vital that they recognize two important facts. The first is that we cannot reach climate goals without protecting and sustainably managing the carbon-absorbing forests that cover a third of the Earth’s land surface.

openfield
1 Noviembre 2021
Authors: 
Anna Locke
Global

Land is a big deal when it comes to the world’s environmental goals. How we use it not only causes a third of global emissions, it has pushed a million species close to extinction and has degraded around a quarter of all land on Earth.

29 Octubre 2021
Authors: 
Ms. Anna Diski
Ms. Helle Abelvik Lawson
Global

World leaders are failing ordinary people on climate change. From Fairbourne in Wales to China and Japan; the Amazon and Congo rainforests to the Pacific Islands – here are some of the people our leaders should be listening to at the COP26 global climate talks.



World leaders are meeting this week at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow to agree stronger pledges to stop the world warming to dangerous levels.


USAID works in over 23 countries to improve property rights and land and resource governance. Jeremy Green/USAID
26 Octubre 2021
Authors: 
Javier Molina Cruz
Guatemala
Colombia
Global

Over the past nine years, the project on Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) has helped countries make political commitments towards the eradication of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, with the explicit outcome of increasing awareness among decision makers, development partners, and society at large regarding access to natural resources. The Food a

25 Octubre 2021
Authors: 
Mr. Charl-Thom Bayer
Ms. Laura Meggiolaro
Madagascar
Senegal
Global

The excerpt highlights the top three challenges any government faces in opening up their land data. Navigating these challenges is a top priority for the Land Portal as we begin to collaborate with national governments to put the Open Up Guide into practice. 

23 Octubre 2021
Global

 

No se trata solo de nuestra supervivencia, sino también de las generaciones futuras y de una forma de vida transmitida de generación en generación.

21 Octubre 2021
Authors: 
Ms. Kelly Oakes
Global

Fresh water, clean air, peace of mind – natural landscapes make life better for humans in myriad ways. Now scientists are trying to put a dollar figure on exactly how much nature is worth.


Tucked away in the Scottish Highlands, in an old commercial forest known as Birchfield near Loch Ness, is a rewilding project with a difference.


Kamiel Choi/Pixabay
5 Octubre 2021
Global

'O único crescimento sustentável é o decrescimento' - Kamiel Choi/Pixabay

Precisamos parar de ter debates em que não nos ouvimos para nos unirmos contra os verdadeiros inimigos da justiça ambiental

Por Beth Stratford

27 Septiembre 2021
Authors: 
Mr. Malcolm Childress
Global

Our food system doesn’t work for everyone.

Quantifying Tenure Risk (QTR)
15 Septiembre 2021
Authors: 
Dr. Joseph Feyertag
Judith Tyson
África subsahariana
Global

Private financial flows that are tracked against certain Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria reached record highs in 2020. But this boom may not be having a material impact, especially in low-income countries (LICs) which are most in need of it. Identifying and managing unknown financial risks can help re-balance the risk-reward ratio for sustainable investors.


 


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