Earth is facing its 6th mass extinction: 1 million species could soon be wiped out. Through The Lion’s Share (TLS), UNDP & its partners aim to create a global movement benefitting wildlife conservation. With an innovative financing scheme complementing Official development assistance (ODA) and facilitating private sector engagement, TLS encourages advertisers who feature animals in … Continued
The project combats illegal logging through use of tree recognition technology which enables the organization to trace the origin of each tree. This tool can help to stop the trade of illegally worked and stolen wood and raise awareness among the consumers on the origin of trees. Pallisco is a Cameroonian forest company working with … Continued
Wisdom-in-Nature (WIN) recognizes the importance of species’ cultural values to society and its sustainable development. WIN widens the prospects of species conservation by exploring and demonstrating the cultural significance of nature. Through species’ cultural value WIN goes beyond field conservation and explores the root causes of the extinction of species and their conditions for survival … Continued
The Sustainable Cities Program (SCP) works to build awareness and mobilize Brazilian cities to adopt and implement a sustainable agenda. The SCP takes a pioneering role in the implementation and municipalization of SDG in Brazil, through a comprehensive set of indicators in 13 thematic axes. It addresses public administration via an integrated perspective, including social, … Continued
Ratings are a tool that encourages businesses to take on their share of social responsibility, increase their own sustainability and preserve nature in their regions of activity, prevent climate change, and contribute to saving the planet as a whole. The ratings also help improve companies’ health by assessing their main environmental and energy efficiency indicators. … Continued
As the technology used to monitor wildlife populations and crimes in protected areas advanced over the previous decades, NGOs have been collecting broad swaths of data without field-recognized standards for how to manage data. The project proposes the creation of a working group composed of representatives from across the conservation and adjacent fields, in order … Continued
The project aims to support socially oriented NGOs working in the field of prevention and support of persons with HIV infection and other socially significant diseases (drug addiction, tuberculosis, hepatitis).
The Clean Games are team competitions around the collection and sorting of litter in natural environments. Participants are divided into teams from 2 to 4 people and compete for 1-2 hours, trying to collect as much litter as possible. Each type of garbage collected is awarded a different amount of points depending on the category: … Continued
The International Trade Centre, the World Tourism Organization, and the Basque Culinary Center are collaborating to promote and support small farmers and food artisans in developing countries, especially in the least developed countries (LDCs), to develop new and innovative projects, upscale existing products, and create closer links between the consumers and the tourism industry.
The 2020 deadline to establish a new global treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of the high seas is fast approaching. The goal of the High Seas Alliance is the establishment of a new robust treaty that has an effective framework that fills in current governance gaps for the successful management and conservation of … Continued
