Our current use of resources is not sustainable, resilient, or easily adaptable to new or alternative modes of use. Further, it is inequitably distributed both geographically and societally. Frontiers of Development is a series of interdisciplinary symposia bringing together the best early to mid-career researchers from industry, academia, NGOs, and government in multidisciplinary workshops that address fundamental development challenges…

Focali (Forest, Climate, and Livelihood research network) is a Swedish research network focusing on forest / bio-energy, climate change and poverty issues. We live in times of interlinked crises which should be a strong wake-up call on our interdependence with nature as well as the need for broader and stronger collaboration across geographical regions, sectors, and disciplines to meet the challenges and find a sustainable future. At this Focali…

Le 64ème Congrès de Légumes de France aura lieu les 19 et 20 novembre à Nantes, avec l'accueil de la Fédération des Maraîchers Nantais. En cette période actuelle difficile, le Congrès de Légumes de France sera l'occasion de se retrouver, d'échanger, et de construire l'avenir de manière encore plus forte que lors des éditions précédentes. Le Congrès de Légumes de France est un véritable temps fort pour la profession. Il réunit plus de 200…

The Africa Climate Action Initiative (ACAI) of the Canada Africa Partnership (CAP) Network is partnering with the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) to deliver a briefing webinar on Tuesday, November 10 about the recently launched Ecological Threat Register (ETR). The ETR measures ecological threats that countries are currently facing, provides projections to 2050, and shows the ability of nations and their resilience – as measured by…

ICPAC is a Climate Center accredited by the World Meteorological Organization that provides Climate Services to 11 East African Countries. Our services aim at creating resilience in a region deeply affected by climate change and extreme weather. CPAC has the vision of becoming a world-class center of excellence in climate services for sustainable development in Eastern Africa. Temperatures in Africa are projected to rise faster than the global…

La maison de la Chimie est un centre de congrès et de conférences situé au 28, rue Saint-Dominique dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris. Depuis les années 1930, cette demeure est le théâtre d‘événements scientifiques, culturels, politiques et économiques. Les relations actuelles entre Agriculture, Chimie et attentes de la Société sont loin d’être simples, comme l’illustrent les prises de positions publiques récentes de certains. Pourtant, des…

El jueves 29 de octubre de 18.00 a 20.00 h. se realizará un webinario con Joseph Bharat Cornell, uno de los mayores referentes internacionales de educación al aire libre y actividades vivenciales en la naturaleza. Una oportunidad para escucharlo, traducido en directo al castellano, y poder dialogar con él en el turno de preguntas. Presenta y conduce: Javier Benayas del Álamo, profesor de la UAM, especialista en Educación Ambiental. En el…

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. Since 2007, the Central African Forest Observatory (OFAC) has been working to create information networks, establish analytical and communication tools, and produce flagship regional publications to provide reliable, relevant and accessible data on the state…

Celebrated every 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. It also underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives. By linking science more closely with society, World Science Day for Peace and Development aims to ensure that citizens are kept informed of developments in science…

The Regenerative Earth Summit is returning this year with a 4 event series focused on accelerating the conversation from regenerative learning to regenerative action. Regenerative Rising is re-imagining this series of highly engaging 2-day virtual summits as an opportunity to engage regenerative leaders in a co-creational effort, focused on addressing key obstacles to regenerative implementation. With keynote speakers and working groups digging…

This is a high-profile event that brings together four senior academics from across the University of Cambridge who have all been advising policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The speakers will draw on their extensive experience of advising and being consulted by policy-makers and will reflect on some of the lessons, debates and controversies associated with governmental responses to the pandemic. And they will consider what this episode…

All the UN member states have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Targets by 2030. However, there is a clear gap between what is being committed and the delivery of the commitments. For example, in 2020 National Voluntary Reports only seven countries reported on specific land targets. No country reported on the all three key land targets. The gap prevails based on many reasons ranging from lack of political will to resources…

La vigne est une plante pérenne très sensible aux maladies cryptogamiques (mildiou, oïdium, black-rot,…) et aux ravageurs (vers de la grappe, cicadelles,…) ; de ce fait elle nécessite une protection phytosanitaire efficace. Mais l’usage de produits phytosanitaires est encore excessif et certains produits organiques de synthèse ont des effets néfastes avérés sur la santé humaine. L’agroécologie permet de répondre à ce défi, par une approche…

The Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank providing leading research and viable policy options to government officials, business executives and the public at large wishing to better understand international issues. Multilateral cooperation was being put to the test by growing divisions and confrontation well before the Covid-19 crisis. With the pandemic taking a heavy…

The International Roundtable on Climate Change in the Pacific, organized by the Centre of Austronesian Studies, UCLan and Communities Fiji Britain, for Fijian 50 years Independence! Climate change is having a detrimental impact on the lives of many Pacific peoples. This has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic which has resulted in a lack of media attention on climate change in the Pacific due to the continued reporting on the global spread…

Large scale public and especially private investment is needed to restore degraded land, protect forests and enhance productivity to generate income and jobs for rural communities. At present, however, growing demand for food and materials leads to ever increasing demand for land, resulting in rapid deforestation, land degradation and habitat loss. Reversing these trends by restoring degraded landscapes, protecting forests, and making degraded…

With global health pandemics and climate change creating a world of unknowns, we still have the power to step up to restore the earth. Join thousands of biodiversity experts, scientists, policymakers, journalists, activists, private sector and Indigenous groups at the GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference to learn how the world’s leading organizations are uniting in the wake of COVID-19 to conserve and protect the world’s disappearing biodiversity…

Several studies have been conducted on the economic gains to society by investing in restoration. A global estimation is that for every R16 (roughly a dollar) spent on restoration, up to R1 200 (75-dollars) of economic benefits can be recovered. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to speed up collaboration amongst all stakeholders and across all UN member states to invest in restoration. There are several impediments to restoration, such…

This Leverhulme Lecture precedes a Distinguished Experts Dialogue among leading international jurists and academics, and renowned finance and public policy experts, to share insights and identify new directions for post-pandemic recovery. This public Leverhulme Lecture and Dialogue explores post-pandemic law and policy innovation for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Governments are spending billions on pandemic recovery. How could this…

The 2020 US Presidential election is considered one of the most pivotal moments in history for tackling climate change. The two candidates, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have an entirely contrasting approach when it comes to the climate. Over the past four years, Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement whilst rolling back more than 160 significant environmental regulations, from car fuel standards through to methane emissions. Given what…

During recent decades, significant progress has been made for improving agricultural productivity. Even though we now produce more than enough food to feed everyone, our global food systems are out of balance. Hunger, obesity, malnutrition, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity, poor conditions for workers in the food chain are just some of the issues that highlight this imbalance. The number of hungry people has increased over the…

Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Justice Brian Preston is Australia's most senior environmental judicial officer. His reputation as an environmental defender, which extends around the world, took a step towards hero status when he blackballed a coal mine in NSW's Hunter Valley Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales…

Environmental human rights defenders are people who strive to protect and promote human rights relating to the environment. Their work is crucial but often underappreciated, and we are very excited to host a discussion of the role that environmental defenders are playing in encouraging action on climate change and other intersecting systemic issues. Our panel will include participants from diverse backgrounds, including representatives from local…

Physical climate change impacts are emerging across a diverse spectrum local, regional, national, and global settings in which engineered systems and infrastructure play key roles. As a result, engineers find themselves as stakeholders in a growing number consequential climate adaptation decisions. Consideration of climate change in the professional engineering setting is thus emerging as an important factor in engineered design, as well in…

Climate change is a global problem, but not everyone is impacted equally. Black, Indigenous and People of Colour around the world are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis -- from low-lying island nations in the Global South, to majority black and brown neighbourhoods in countries like the UK in the Global North. Yet, the voices of the communities most impacted by the climate crisis are all too often left out of the conversation. In this panel…