On 21 May 2019 (7:00 PM CET/1:00 PM EDT), Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Ducks Unlimited, Metcalf Foundation, Nature Conservancy of Canada, and Nature United are holding a webinar on the "Landmark U.N. Biodiversity Report with Lead Co-Author."
On 15 May 2019 (2:00 PM - 6:00PM), Finance Watch is holding the workshop "Making Finance serve Nature" in Brussels, Belgium.
“This is not tree hugging. This is business. With customers and business in mind, the private sector needs to reallocate capital to inclusive green solutions.,” says Anders Langworth, Founder of the Bankers for Climate initiative and Deputy Head of Nordea Group Sustainable Finance.
The 2019 Tracking SDG7: The energy progress report provides a global dashboard on progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7).
The paper presents a joint estimation of willingness to pay for conservation activities aimed to preserve the flow of ecosystem services provided by a marine protected area network and respondents´ personal discount rate using a contingent valuation survey.
This policy brief shows that gender gaps in agricultural productivity do not arise because women are less efficient farmers but because they experience inequitable access to agricultural inputs, including family labour, high-yield crops, pesticides and fertilizer. Equalizing women’s access to agricultural inputs, including time-saving equipment, and increasing the return to these inputs is therefore critical to close gender gaps in agricultural productivity.