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Mudanças climáticas jogam humanidade em era de incerteza e ameaçam gerar “ruptura social”, diz IPCC ()
5 Août 2021
Pesca no lago Kaptai, em Chittagong (Bangladesh). No pior dos cenários, em que não se consiga conter o aquecimento global, o estudo adverte que o nível de emissões atual conduziria a um aumento de até cinco graus nas montanhas e uma perda de dois terços de suas geleiras até 2100.ALEX TREADWAY /…
3 Août 2021
Mining in the context of climate of climate change brings new challenges to the industry and exacerbates already existing sustainability problems. This Datastory highlights some of these tensions while pointing towards emerging best practice. The findings are based on document analysis and semi-…
30 Juillet 2021
Por: JUAN F. SAMANIEGO
Desde que se licenció como biólogo en 1988, por las manos de Fernando Valladares ha pasado mucha ciencia. Ahora, su dilatada labor ha sido reconocida con el premio Rei Jaume I de Protección del Medio Ambiente.
El jurado que ha fallado el premio ha destacado su trabajo para…
30 Juillet 2021
There is some irony in that many of the terms – ‘thesaurus’, ‘taxonomy’, ‘controlled vocabulary’ ‘ontology’ – that are intended to bring order and clarity to our use of language in professional settings are themselves subject to diverse interpretations and application. This is in large part because…
30 Juillet 2021
Many expert vocabularies have emerged from specific and limited scientific fields such as medicine and botany. They have aimed to achieve precise understanding between experts in these fields based on exact definitions of the terms used and originally, in their early examples, through the…
29 Juillet 2021
In a recent episode of the podcast Uncharted Ground, host Jonathan Levine spoke with Namati about building a global environmental justice movement. You can find it on any major podcast platform or listen to the episode (and access the full transcript) on Stanford Social Innovation Review's website…
27 Juillet 2021
What is the role of land law in natural disasters? Are current global systems of land law fit-for-purpose as we experience escalating rates of climate disruption?
Daniel Fitzpatrick and Caroline Compton consider these questions in their recent book on Law, Property and Disasters : Adaptive…
27 Juillet 2021
The climate crisis cannot be solved without ending tropical deforestation, which increased by 12% between 2019 and 2020.
A jurisdictional approach to forest protection enables governments to drive systemic change at a national level while supporting local and private efforts.
Here are…
16 Juillet 2021
Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our…
13 Juillet 2021
There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists,…
6 Juillet 2021
After three days of intense discussion covering the breadth of land governance issues focusing on the theme of Land, Crisis and Resilience, Dr. Joanny Bélair, Postdoctoral researcher from Utrecht University and LANDac, had the unique opportunity to Chair the closing Session of the LANDac Conference…
6 Juillet 2021
The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation…