Experience Sharing and Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands – Testing and Piloting: Call for PapersnewsThe Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands, will be held from 18 to 20 Jun 2012 at the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Sichuan, China. The workshop is organized by CIB, CAS and the...
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Forests: the Heart of a Green EconomynewsHolding a forward-looking side event on 18 June, FAO and other international organizations will join forces with the private sector to make the forest sector more visible at Rio+20. This Rio+20 side event, will highlight the role of forests in enhancing local livelihoods and leading forward product transitions to low-carbon...
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International conference on sustainable living and innovative solutions: Stockholm+40newsThe Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development - Stockholm+40 - will be hosted by the Swedish Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on 23-25 April 2012, to commemorate the first UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. Stockholm+40 aims to join actors from...
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Let's save the World's Forests!newsOn April 22, we celebrate the next Earth Day. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Eduardo Rojas–Briales, the FAO Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department), outlines the strategy of the UN in the vital area of forest resources management. In view...
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Major groups’ changes to paragraph 94 of the "Zero Draft" now online!newsRecognizing the importance of civil society, the Rio+20 Bureau’s co-chair Ambassador Kim invited Major Groups to submit their amendments to the Rio+20 "Zero draft" outcome at the Bureau meeting with Major groups on 27 January 2012. A series of e-consultations has been promoted by the Mountain Partnership on a global...
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Climate change scientists look back 3 million years to look to the futurenewsTo figure out what global warming could bring to Earth, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that it is Pliocene Epoch, a warm and wet period between 3.15 million and 2.85 million years ago, the slice of time in which the world probably looked...
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