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68th Meeting of the GEF Council
The nearly USD 700 million Work Program approved focuses heavily on chemicals and waste at a time when the GEF hopes to prove to the multilateral community it has the capacity to serve as the financial mechanism for a global plastics treaty and that it could play a significant role in realizing the vision of the Global Framework on Chemicals.
Private Sector Dialogue to Catalyze Nature-Positive Investment in Drought Resilience
Can efforts to build drought resilience attract private sector investment? Government leaders at this session cited examples of how private finance and government support have enabled tree planting, livestock insurance, and hydraulic ram pumps, benefiting farmers.
Future Leaders Network: AI Negotiation Tools and Technologies
How can AI tools empower youth delegates at multilateral negotiations? Organizers of this session presented a custom-built AI tool for youth negotiators, and provided tips on prompt engineering, data bias, and risks to avoid.
Resilience Day: Connecting Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought, Sand and Dust Storms, and Water Scarcity with Integrated Land Solutions
Resilience against drought means many things, rainwater harvesting, tree planting, the chance of owning one’s land—and restoring hope to people displaced by climate impacts.
Soil Degradation in a Changing Climate
Degraded land, in the future, could go from being a carbon sink to being a carbon emitter.
Building Community and Ecological Resilience Through the Freshwater Challenge
The Freshwater Challenge to accelerate restoration of rivers and wetlands by 2030 has attracted 50 countries, and raised high hopes that it can provide a strategic way to help countries meet national commitments across the three Rio Conventions.
European Commission Joint Research Centre: World Drought Atlas—A Perspective on Drought Risks and Resilience
The World Drought Atlas, launched during UNCCD COP 16, is a timely and important policymaker tool which illustrates the complex, systemic nature of drought, providing the latest science and policy solutions to underpin water resilience strategies that are proactive and inclusive.
Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-based, Science-backed Innovation: Empowering Farmers as Stewards
Contrary to common perceptions, regenerative agriculture isn’t less profitable than chemical-based farming.
Upcoming events
78th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
3rd Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 4th International Conference on FfD
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