This Oceans Action Event at COP 22, Marrakech, focuses on Core Issue Solutions, i.e. the 5-year Oceans and Climate Strategic Action Roadmap, Seychelles innovative initiatives and Blue bonds, as well as Science Solutions, i.e. Ocean Value Assessment, Roles of Science and Investors, Local Community involvement and Science to Action time. Solutions to Core Issues (Part […]
Farmers’ role in building Climate Smart Agriculture through Scientific Agriculture,Soil Health,Water Harvesting,Micro Irrigation.It showcases approaches & capacity support to strengthen citizens’ role in implementing INDC’s at national level & promotes best practices-Haiti to tackle climate change.
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 14 – Bernard Liedemann – Slave Labour, Asset Seizure, Paying Informants, International Co-operation and Fear of Retaliation against Officials.
Ocean Pollution – Russell Weston discusses False Bay Park, the dump site and its effect on the Wetland area, the water table and the surrounding farms. We need to find better ways to recycle and deal with waste production than dumping.
COP 21 PARIS. Andre Leu President of IFOAM Organics Int. interview of the benefits of organic farming with soil microbes, producing nutritional high yield, high drought resilient food crops, that additionally mitigate CO2 emissions through soil absorption. Building of healthy soils through composted organic matter and microbes.
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 21: Community Natural Resource Management, Integrated Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Hindu Cush Himalayas, Ashok Ram, Warden NMCA
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 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.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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