Biodiversity

The European Research Council has awarded a highly competitive Consolidator Grant to Steffen Fritz, leader and creator of IIASA’s citizen science project, Geo-Wiki. The €1.4 million grant will build upon work conducted as part of IIASA’s Geo-Wiki project, an interactive online project which involves citizen scientists in global land cover research. It will take the […]

View session details here This presentation by Emilia Janeczko from the Warsaw University of Life Science shows how national park management in Poland is done.

See more session details This presentation by Keith Alverson from UNEP shows how ecosystem based approaches (EBAs) can help with adaption, how mountains are related to SGDs, what the UNEP does in the mountains, how ecosystem based adaptation in mountain ecosystems works and what some take-home messages are.

This presentation focuses on Indonesia’s experiences with the landscapes approach, asking if the problem is addressed fully with the landscapes approach and why we also need inter-community instead of only inter-governmental approaches.

The Global Landscapes Forum, taking place alongside the COP19 global climate talks in Warsaw, is an opportunity for us to look for meaningful answers to the question of our time: How can we nutritiously and sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050, while not contributing to climate change? We need an integrated and inclusive approach […]

The rate of unemployment among youths in Nigeria is growing at an alarming rate. Most youths prefer to settle for white collar jobs rather than work in agriculture. Agriculture is usually seen as something that poor and rural people do. There is an urgent need for reorientation and building Nigerian youths’ capacity towards the agriculture […]