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Peruvian Fishing community on Sustainable Fishing & Passive Harvesting
Peru’s seabed is rich in natural diversity with about 450 different species of algae live in just this part of the Pacific Ocean. The small mining community of San Juan de Marcona, one of five districts in the province of Nazca, Southern Peru, depends on the port and most of its 20 thousand inhabitants are […]
COP 21-UNI. READING & WALKER INST. AFRICAN FARMERS SUPPORT WITH CLIMATE DATA
COP 21 PARIS University of Reading UK speaker Dr. Peter Dorward & Walker Inst. Prof. Ros Cornforth on: Supporting African farming communities with climate data to enable improved decision making criteria, food crop security and create sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.
Tor Wisler – Norwegian Fishing Ministry and Interpol
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 1 – Tor Wisler, Directorate of Fisheries, Norway and Interpol Fish Crime Working Group. Co-operation is vital for intelligence, surveillance and analysis. We need to take the threat to fish populations seriously or we will have problems in […]
COP 20 Interview with head of REDD+ Management Agency Heru Prasetyo
COP 20 Lima Interview with REDD+ Management Agency Heru Prasetyo who reports to the President in a similar position as a minister, Mr Prasetyo discusses: Halting deforestation for Palm Oil Plantations in spite of increased global market demands with better plantation productivity. Reflooding of Peatlands to reduce fires, methane and CO2 emissions. Mr Heru Prasetyo provides a great […]
Oceans Around Africa ~ Risk Reduction and Vulnerable Ecosystems (Part 1)
In this panel presentation, speakers present on the Effects of Climate Change on Oceans focusing in particular on Africa in the global context, also in conjunction with the IPCC-AR5 Report at COP 22, Marrakech. Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner of Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven (AWI), Ocean biologist, Climate researcher and Co‐Chair IPCC WGII – globally, there […]
Jon Witlow – Panel and Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 18 – Jon Witlow – Panel and Discussion regarding the value of media exposes, level of political will to prosecute, profile of fishing vessels
COP 21 Disappearing Phyto-plankton Communities
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP21: Paris 2015: Modelling of Disappearing Phyto-plankton Communities in the Global Ocean
COP 16 USDA Conservation Agri & Forestry Mgmt & Organic Farming
COP 16 CANCUN. US Dept. of Agriculture speaker on conservation, agriculture and forest management and organic farming measures to mitigate global GHG emissions both in the US and internationally.
COP 20-Dr. Sergio D. Claure on Andes glaciers and Para-AGUA
COP 20 Lima Peru Presentation – Para-AGUA – Speaker Dr. Sergio D. Claure on: Mountain and glacier ice melt and Andes watershed impacts, this is a really important presentation as it shows the impacts that climate change is having on the Andes. He also covers the impacts that such dramatic alterations are having on the lives of millions of […]
Sustainable Marine Resource harvesting – Local divers
The small mining community of San Juan de Marcona, one of five districts in the province of Nazca, Southern Peru, depends on the port and most of its 20 thousand inhabitants who are fishermen and local divers who practice sustainable marine resource harvesting. The major industry here is the Marcona Mine, but fishing has been […]
COP 20 Kimaren Ole Riamit from ILEPA-Kenya rights of indigenous people
COP 20 Lima Panel Speaker Kimaren Ole Riamit from Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners, (ILEPA) based in Kenya on: The rights and interests of indigenous people to be recognized by COP negotiators & included in binding Climate action plans and agreements. Although indigenous people are of the land and have the lowest carbon footprint, they are […]
Chris Kasten – WWF SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 3 – Chris Kasten from World Wildlife Fund and the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative – Green List is fish that is produced in a sustainable and responsible manner, Orange List are fish sources that are cause for […]