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In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allocating US$ 10 million for emergency conservation efforts under the New Deal, putting unemployed Americans to work. When South Korea was struggling with famine and a refugee crisis in the 1950s, the government restored forests and farmland, creating hundreds...

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“The world today finds itself in the worst financial and economic crisis in generations. The crisis has triggered an unprecedented policy response: interest rates have been dramatically reduced, in some cases down to almost zero, and hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity support and fresh capital have been provided to banking systems around the world.”

The social and economic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting countries’ efforts to improve livelihoods and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

MAVA is seeking innovative ideas to better promote nature in the (post)-COVID-19 world that is currently being shaped. This call for proposals seeks to support activities that strengthen nature conservation in the immediate recovery phase and the mid-term (re)construction phase of the COVID crisis. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 23 October 2020.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched a new publication, “The Little Book of Green Nudges”, which aims to inspire up to 200 million students around the globe to adopt environmentally friendly habits and greener lifestyles.

In response to the growing recognition of the importance of natural capital – soil, water air and all living things – the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), through its Expert Group on Natural Capital, has released five reports to advance the state of knowledge on natural capital valuation for green growth and ensure they are reflected in national decision-making processes and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

The EBRD and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are joining forces to promote sustainable tourism, accelerate the transfer of climate finance and make green technologies more accessible for the tourism sector through the Bank’s online shopping-style platform: Green Technology Selector.

The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) initiative, launched last year by UNEP together with strategic partners, will address the lack of food waste data in the Global South, by providing capacity building on the Food Waste Index methodology, enabling coherent measurement and comparable data across countries, and facilitating regional collaboration on measurement issues, strategy development and food waste action.

The recent Baltic Circular Procurement Congress highlighted the leading role of public procurers in driving forward the movement towards circular economies.