The REDD+ Academy (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradations) is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change mitigation challenge and enable systematic, focused capacity development to deliver REDD+ on the ground. The course Fundamentals on REDD+ provides the basics for a good…

United Nations University The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars, engaged in research, postgraduate teaching and capacity development and dissemination of knowledge in furthering the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The mission of UNU is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United…

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral financial mechanism created in 1991 to provide grant and concessional funds to recipient countries for projects and programs that address biodiversity loss, climate change mitigation and adaptation, degradation of international waters, land and forests, ozone depletion, elimination or reduction of persistent organic pollutants and mercury, all within the framework of sustainable development…

This course focuses on the background information on climate change, the drivers of deforestation, and strategies for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Once you complete this course you will be able to: Describe climate change and the greenhouse effect Identify and describe climate change causes and impacts Identify and describe climate change mitigation strategies Identify and describe the role of forests in climate change Identify…

Stockholm University's Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry is seeking a student for a PhD project that will be immersed in a decade-long ongoing international research collaboration on climate-relevant biogeochemical carbon cycling processes in the Arctic.

Openings for 3 Post-doctoral research positions, 2 of them at the University of Bern and 1 at the University of Reading, as part of the INCLUDE project.

This e-learning course focuses on the background information on climate change, the drivers of deforestation, and strategies for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Once you complete this course you will be able to: Describe climate change and the greenhouse effect; Identify and describe climate change causes and impacts; Identify and describe climate change mitigation strategies; Identify and describe the role of forests in climate…

More than half a billion people live and work in Africa’s drylands, among the most parched landscapes on the planet, and representing 43 percent of the continent. Smallholders nurture crops and graze livestock on land that is mostly rainfed — and rapidly degrading, due in part to the relentless, devastating force of climate change that threatens the rich biodiversity of these fragile landscapes. On 2-3 June 2021, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)…

In this course, one will be introduced to some of the most vibrant cultural trends addressing landscape appreciation, degradation, protection, and rehabilitation that currently circulate in the Asian hemisphere. Key modules will be among many others: Concepts of landscape past and present and their cosmological underpinnings; Entangled landscapes comprising cultural flows of concepts and forms, contemporary gardens on the move, nostalgic elegies…

Description Established in 1944, the WBG is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions. In fiscal year 2018, the WBG committed $67 billion in loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to its members and private businesses, of which $24 billion was concessional finance to its poorest members. It is governed by 188-member countries and delivers services out of 120 offices with nearly 15,000 staff…

In a dynamic world, innovation; that is to say, the creation and implementation of news ideas, approaches, methods, products and the like to ensure continued progress, is crucial to the life and indeed success of any organization. With the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UNCCD Secretariat is now custodian for Target 15.3, i.e. Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), thus making having an…

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Post-doctoral Scientist to set up and operate eddy covariance infrastructure and measurements across a gradient of land degradation, and to determine nutrient budgets in semi-arid landscapes in East Africa within the ESSA project . This position will be housed within the ILRI’s Mazingira Centre as part of Mazingira Centre’s scientific staff. ILRI works to improve food and…