Since 2010, iMHEA, the Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems, has worked to generate and strengthen knowledge on the hydrology of Andean ecosystems in order to improve decision-making on the management of ecosystem services and water resources in the region. On this occasion, the iMHEA 2019 International Assembly brought together more than 40 […]
I’m writing this post from Washington, DC, where we just experienced the wettest year on record. In Paris, officials struggle to contain violent protests triggered by a fuel tax increase designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Residents of Canada, Sweden, and the US West are still picking up the pieces after record-breaking wildfire seasons. In […]
<<Initiative Home << All Initiatives REGÍSTRESE PARA NUESTROS PRÓXIMOS WEBINARS [info will go here] VER GRABACIONES DE WEBINARS ANTERIORES Lecciones en la implementación de los MERESE Miércoles 5 de septiembre a las 7:00 pm En el año 2015, se aprobó la Ley sobre Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos permitiendo la realización de […]
This story is cross-posted on the World Economic Forum web site Facebook seemed so frivolous when it first emerged 15 years ago, but look at it now: this glorified chatroom has completely upended the very sector it seemed destined to complement, becoming in the process the epitome of a “disruptive technology”. Lyft and Uber have […]
Over the past two weeks, we have witnessed yet more tragic loss of life from hurricane-force winds, rain, and flooding in the eastern US. Now, people in the affected area must brace themselves for the long, difficult task of repairing damage and recovering lives interrupted by the storm. Just a month ago, as warm temperatures […]
The Global Climate Action Summit wrapped up in San Francisco last week, and what a week it was. A coalition of nine foundations announced commitments totaling $459 million to conserve forests around the world and recognize the land rights of the indigenous and traditional communities who manage them. California released the groundwork for mobilizing major investments […]
This week, San Francisco hosts the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), a gathering timed midway between climate talks in Paris in 2015 and 2020. GCAS unofficially began on Saturday with the Rise for Climate demonstration and will continue until the weekend, with a number of high-level commitments by governments, business, and other non-state actors expected […]
Join Forest Trends and our partners at the following sessions: An Action Agenda for Green Infrastructure Sunday 26 August | 09.00-10.30 | Room: NL 253 Forest Trends / Nature Insurance Value: Assessment and Demonstration Project Consortium / Deltares / The Nature Conservancy / Alliance for Global Water Adaptation / Stockholm International Water Institute / ICATALIST […]
US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt may be gone, but his replacement, Andrew Wheeler is just as friendly to the coal sector as Pruitt was – and just as unfriendly to the $25 billion “restoration economy” that directly employs 126,000 people and supports 95,000 other jobs. That’s more jobs than logging, more than coal mining, and […]
Estados Unidos y Canadá apoyarán proyecto sobre infraestructura natural que se desarrollará en Piura, Lima, Arequipa, Moquegua y Cusco. El embajador de los Estados Unidos en el Perú, Krishna R. Urs, y la embajadora de Canadá en el Perú y Bolivia, Gwyneth Kutz, presentaron -el pasado viernes 15 de junio- el Proyecto Infraestructura Natural para […]