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![Our Ocean Conference 2018 was held in Bali this week to further global action on maintaining the sustainability of our oceans. Photo: Wonderful Nature/Shutterstock. Our Ocean Conference 2018 was held in Bali this week to further global action on maintaining the sustainability of our oceans. Photo: Wonderful Nature/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/shutterstock_518373715.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=9Rg68cuX)
From political will to financial commitments: six stories illustrate the Our Ocean 2018 Conference in action
Our actions today have never had a bigger impact on our future than they do now. Under this premise the Our Ocean Conference 2018 was held in Bali this week to further global action on maintaining the sustainability of our oceans. Millions of people depend on ocean for their lives and livelihoods.…
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![With billions of dollars directed towards global environmental benefits, the GEF needs policies such as the newly adopted policy on gender equality, that can ensure that these benefits are directed to those who need them most. The new policy requires gender analysis as part of project design, which is key to ensuring that GEF projects are designed with a better understanding of gender differences, roles and needs. The new policy also sets the ambition for the GEF to move beyond just being aware of gender to actually responding through concrete actions, a key link that is often missed. By translating analysis into real actions, we should see more GEF projects deliver greater environmental benefits on both local and global levels. Photo: Anca Milushev/Shutterstock. Women wakling near mangroves in the remote village of Uzi, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania. Photo: Anca Milushev/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/CI_blog_870.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=eQNxcFlT)
A voice from the Liberian mangroves: ensuring that GEF investments work for both women and men
“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 me. I’ve come to this rural village on the…
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Why coastal ecosystems protection is on our to-do list
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 least of new trading posts and farm-land, far…