Two small towns with a rich cultural heritage. A wide river with numerous arms and green islands. Dense forests and swamps with rich biodiversity. Farrapos National Park has a lot to offer. But can balancing conservation and economic development in the area be achieved? Gustavo Olveyra explains how two young men from San Javier, with support from local and national authorities, paved the way for sustainable tourism.
Countries that continuously improve the integrity of their carbon transactions will boost confidence and expand market opportunities with a wide array of actors. Indonesia can be one of these countries.
Ten million hectares of forest are destroyed each year. Live coral has declined by about 4% per decade since 1990. And one million plant and animal species—one quarter of all species—are now threatened with extinction. The past decade has not yielded the biodiversity outcomes that many hoped for when the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity was adopted, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As a result, biodiversity loss continues to accelerate, posing significant risks to our economy and the well-being of current and future generations.
Tools and Initiatives
The release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report represents a “code red for humanity” – and for climate-vulnerable Indonesia. Having already pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2060, how can a country of 17,000 islands now implement change on the scale required? The answer – as Indonesia is learning – starts in the classroom.
Tools and Initiatives
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The world has learned many lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, but none more important than this: we must change the way we run our businesses and economies to work with nature, not against it.
Efforts to protect and restore nature have overlooked the biggest single factor in biodiversity loss: the world’s inefficient and irresponsible use of natural resources. To remedy this, Co-Chairs of the International Resource Panel (IRP) outline principles to help policymakers better manage natural resources and acknowledge, understand and address the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss for climate, nature and socially just economic and social development.
Applying BGI solutions to roadways, wetlands and walking trails not only enhances resilience to climatic extremes, but provides a space for humans and nature to thrive.
All countries have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries have announced stimulus packages to recover their economies, and some have embraced the concept of a green recovery. According to the Global Recovery Observatory, however, only 21% of the total USD 2.25 trillions of the recovery spending announced to date by the world’s 50 largest economies is going into green investments.
Following the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and the recent gathering of G7 finance ministers, the world got a taste of what the future may look like as countries struggle to recover from COVID-19 and the collateral impacts of the Great Lockdown.