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6 July, 2015
This month I have the pleasure of welcoming the staff of five new ESPA projects to the programme.  At the same time my team in the Directorate is seeking to expand our team by the appointment of a Regional Evidence Advisor for...
News
2 July, 2015
It seemed to be a slow start for discussions on climate change at the UN climate change conference in Bonn. Yet while critics point out that the lack of headlines may be an indicator of a lack of political will to come to an...
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1 July, 2015
In the history of life on our planet there have been 5 mass extinction events in which a large number of species became extinct in a short period of time. To date they have all been caused by natural disasters, such as a...
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30 June, 2015
Last week BBC news reported a stark warning from Professor Jonah Ratsimbazafy, one of the world’s leading specialists on lemurs and director of primate research centre GERP. Nearly all of Madagascar’s 106 species of lemur are at...
Blogs
3 June, 2015
During the last week of May 2015, the city of Edinburgh hosted the 20th meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership, an informal network of development agencies and practitioners, which seeks to improve the coordination of...
News
1 June, 2015
Can attaching a monetary value to ecosystem services, such as those provided by mangroves, one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems, help improve conservation and livelihoods? There are many critics who claim that such ‘...
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26 May, 2015
13 - 16 September 2015 ICC Durban, South Africa   A broad range of topics can be addressed under theme "Transforming global relations for a just world", many of which are open to interdisciplinary and comparative...
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25 May, 2015
In preparation of the side event on “Social protection for building resilience of forest dependent people” that will take place at the XIV World Forestry Congress (WFC) in Durban, South Africa, from the 7th to the 11th of...
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25 May, 2015
While the world has been slow in securing an international agreement on climate change that hasn’t deterred the development of a number of schemes that aim to tackle the problem at a more practical level. The largest and best...
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25 May, 2015
The key to securing the welfare of current and future generations is protecting the rich diversity of life on earth.   As the world’s governments prepare to adopt a new set of sustainable development goals at a high level UN...

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