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By Georgina Langdale, Nov 2
TEEB Conference 2012, Extended Call for Papers and additional topics
It is a pleasure to announce the TEEB Conference 2012, Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature: Challenges for Science and Implementation, taking place in Leipzig, Germany, March 19-22, 2012. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is a major international initiative …
By Georgina Langdale, Jun 9
Forests central to a Green Economy
Sunday 5 June was World Environment Day and UNEP launched a new report Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis. The report highlights the multitude of benefits that forests provide to humanity. It shows that an investment of just 0.034 …
By Nele Steinmetz, Dec 20
In the year 2000, the United Nations alongside several other organisations agreed on the ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (MDG); eight goals to improve the conditions of the world’s poorest countries by 2015. The seventh Goal to ‘Ensure environmental sustainability’, affects every …
By Katrina Borromeo, Dec 11
Sea Turtles are believed to be one of the oldest creatures on earth. Old in the sense that one, they live up to 250 years and two, their existence dates back to more than 100 million years ago, to the …




