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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. Thematic sessions today showed how these are connected.
Soil Degradation in a Changing Climate
Degraded land, in the future, could go from being a carbon sink to being a carbon emitter. AI and remote sensing technologies can be used to deepen our knowledge of soil degradation trends, and what means for how we feed the world’s population.
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. Besides increasing smallholder incomes and agricultural yields, regenerative practices can reward farmers for promoting soil carbon sequestration through the sale of carbon credits.
11th Session of the IPBES Plenary and Stakeholder Day
The Plenary launched the Nexus Assessment on the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food, and health, and the Transformative Change Assessment on underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change, and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.