Innovation drives Seychelles blue economy approach
Posted on: March 21, 2018
Our oceans provide everything from food for billions around the world, to protecting communities and economies from storms—bringing it at least $1.5 trillion to the global economy every year. But they also face a barrage of threats, from marine...
State-of-the art oceanic research ship will support LME conservation and management
Posted on: January 24, 2018
In 2017, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Norway launched a new, state-of-the-art marine studies vessel, among the most advanced of its kind. Its mission: To investigate some of the planet's least-explored ocean using cutting-edge...
Bike-sharing Data and Cities: Lessons From China’s Experience
Posted on: January 17, 2018
Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the developing world. However, the development and environmental benefits from using digital technologies are yet to be fully captured. The GEF launched the Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach...
Marking progress: Towards gender mainstreaming at UN Environment
Posted on: November 28, 2017
While working towards gender equality may be business as usual in many countries, in much of the world massive disparities in education, empowerment and opportunities remain a daily reality for women and girls.
Just one example is Mozambique, where...
The GEF’s new policy on gender equality is a win for people and planet
Posted on: November 28, 2017
Gender equality is an environmental issue.
Through initiatives financed by the Global Environment Facility, UNDP recognizes this reality on the ground around the world. From Pakistan, where investing in women as clean energy entrepreneurs has...
A new GEF gender equality policy to define and shape our sustainable future – equitably
Posted on: November 27, 2017
Environmental threats represent the greatest challenge we face today.
Waters recede in some places, drying lands and livelihoods out while sea levels and hurricanes inundate and sweep others away. Temperature changes threaten entire species and...
A voice from the Liberian mangroves: ensuring that GEF investments work for both women and men
Posted on: November 27, 2017
“Women should benefit from this project, otherwise we’ll have to continue to go in and cut the mangrove.”
I’m sitting on a narrow wooden bench, under a burning hot aluminum roof, next to a mother with a small boy on her lap who keeps a wary eye on...
Cities to share smart solutions to urban sustainability
Posted on: October 27, 2017
There is strength in numbers, the old idiom goes. Indeed, history shows that collaboration fosters ideas and results. Next week, the Global Platform for Sustainable Cities, or GPSC, will convene in New Delhi, India, to again share ideas and build on...
When life gives you lionfish: Innovation in fighting invasive species in the Caribbean
Posted on: May 31, 2017
Seeing a lionfish while diving in the Caribbean is a cause for mixed emotions. On the one hand, one marvels at the exquisite beauty of the fishes’ flowery fins and its amazing adaptability to a range of habitats, from shallow estuaries with...
Why coastal ecosystems protection is on our to-do list
Posted on: May 15, 2017
More than a thousand years ago, the Vikings lived and died by the sea while often taking to the oceans in specially designed wooden ships and sailing for the unknown. They dreamt of plunder, stories to entertain the long winter nights, and not...
