Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Nature-based solutions – based on the protection, restoration and sustainable management of the world’s ecosystems - have the potential to provide up to 30% of climate mitigation required to meet the 1.5°C target in the Paris Agreement. This requires collective global action to protect, restore…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), also referred to as Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation, involves a wide range of ecosystem management activities, such as the sustainable management of forests, grasslands, and wetlands, that increase the resilience and reduce the vulnerability of people and…
Story | 10 Feb, 2022
Request for Proposals (RfP) - consultancy opportunities in North Macedonia
IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Centrals Asia (ECARO) seeks one (1) Ecology Consultant and one (1) Disaster Risk Reduction Consultant to support the realisation of a tender dossier for application of Nature-based Solutions in North Macedonia within the…
Artículo | 10 Feb, 2022
El lunes 7 de febrero del 2022 se celebró la firma de un acuerdo de cooperación entre UICN, representada por su Directora Regional, Sra. Úrsula Parrilla y la Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Cordillera Volcánica Central de Costa Rica (FUNDECOR), representada por su Director Ejecutivo, el Sr.…
Story | 07 Feb, 2022
Request for Proposals (RfP) Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant
IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia invites qualified experts to submit Proposals for the individual consultancy of a Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant in the frame of the ADAPT project.
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Nature-based Solutions for climate
Climate change poses a fundamental threat to nature, species, and people. However, nature also provides key solutions for both carbon storage and building climate resilience – if the global community takes steps to protect, restore, and better manage our natural resources.
Story | 02 Feb, 2022
Request for Proposals (RfP) - Green Climate Fund Concept Note Development
Open call for the position of Green Climate Fund Consultant in the frame of ADAPT: Nature-based Solutions for resilient societies in the Western Balkans.
Story | 28 Jan, 2022
Growing floating rice in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta provides increased financial returns to farmers
A pilot study on 93 hectares around the Lang Sen Wetlands Nature Reserve found that there is a high potential to further scale-up flood-based agriculture to provide economic benefits to farmers, while simultaneously decreasing negative…
Story | 27 Jan, 2022
Symposium on Peatlands in Lao PDR
Over the course of two days during 21 and 22 January 2022, the MONRE Vice Minister Chanthaneth Boualapha presided over Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s (Lao PDR) first ever Symposium on Peatlands, held in Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province.
Story | 14 Dec, 2021
Nature-based Solutions as a response to climate change in Western Balkans
In cooperation with the Public Investment Management Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia a working lunch for key partners in Serbia was organised to discuss the application of Nature-based Solutions aimed at…