Development

“La cooperación y el compromiso de los actores principales representados en este Foro son fundamentales para el éxito y en el PNUD nos complace mucho ser socios en este viaje”. Fueron las palabras de  Helen Clark, Administradora del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), durante su discurso de apertura en una sesión […]

By Fred Pearce, originally published at Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Timing is everything. And Michael Hobbes, an old aid hand and human rights consultant, got the timing spot on with his recent blog at The New Republic on how “big ideas are destroying international development”. As the international aid […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, originally published at the DG’s Blog The UNFCCC COP20 in Lima is around the corner, and expectations are mounting again on how far the world’s countries are prepared to go in handling causes and effects of climate change. Lima is the last main stop en route to a new climate deal in […]

In a new report, to be presented at the Global Landscapes Forum on Saturday, the Sustainable Tropics Alliance analyzes progress made in implementing low-emission rural development (LED-R) in eight regions in the Tropics. LED-R provides a framework for integrated implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and helps to address challenges related […]

One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, was the agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accompanied by a guiding outcome document, “The Future We Want,” which set the frame […]