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18 Novembre 2019
Em todo o mundo, as comunidades estão lutando para defender suas terras, ar, água, florestas e seus meios de subsistência de projetos prejudiciais e atividades extrativistas com fortes impactos ambientais e sociais: mineração, represas, plantações de árvores, fracking, queima de gás, incineradores…
18 Novembre 2019
O curso Igualdade de Gênero é um curso de treinamento da Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável e tem como objetivo desenvolver e fortalecer a conscientização sobre questões de igualdade de gênero e empoderamento das mulheres no contexto da Agenda 2030. Os princípios da igualdade de gênero…
15 Novembre 2019
'People should not and do not need to be dying in heatwaves'
LONDON - With urban populations surging around the world, cities will struggle to keep residents safe from fast-growing heat risks turbo-charged by climate change, scientists and public health experts warned this week.
Heat is already…
15 Novembre 2019
The Land Portal Foundation is recruiting up to two new board members to complement its existing board.
The Land Portal was set up in 2009 as a partnership project dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing a fragmentation of information…
14 Novembre 2019
In mid-November, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted a summit in Nairobi, Kenya to rally the political will and financial commitments urgently needed to implement the goals of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) adopted by 179 governments in Cairo.
That 1994…
13 Novembre 2019
The effect of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, researchers report.
A new international study reveals that between 2000 and 2013, the clearance of intact tropical forests led to much higher levels of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere…
12 Novembre 2019
Power relationships, local knowledge and transparency in integrated landscape approaches
Integrate knowledge holders. Understand power relationships and address imbalances to ensure marginalized groups are heard. Promote transparency in decisions and actions in landscape restoration work. Address…
9 Novembre 2019
A series of leaked emails was leapt on by climate-change deniers to discredit the data, but their efforts may have only slowed the search for solutions
The email that appeared on Phil Jones’s computer screen in November 2009 was succinct. “Just a quick note to encourage you to shoot yourself in…
7 Novembre 2019
Organizaciones feministas de África, Ásia, América Latina, Europa, han unido fuerzas para fortalecer e impulsar diferentes movimientos de mujeres que trabajan por la defensa de tierra, territorios, culturas y saberes en sus diversidades.
Diferentes organizaciones de mujeres de los sectores…
Cadasta Foundation Launches New Global Land Rights Challenge Fund to Secure Land and Resource Rights ()
5 Novembre 2019
Cadasta Foundation has launched its new Global Land Rights Challenge Fund to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide.
The Land Rights Challenge Fund will feature multiple grant programs through 2021, each designed to…
1 Novembre 2019
When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they're gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations.
But to the White Earth people, manoomin isn't just a resource to be used…
31 Octobre 2019
When undisturbed tropical forests are lost the long-term impact on carbon emissions is dramatically higher than earlier estimates suggest, according to a new study.
Between 2000 and 2013, about 7 percent of the world’s intact tropical forests were destroyed, leading not just to direct carbon…