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Managing the global commons
Here’s a prediction: planetary intelligence could emerge on Earth by 2050. “Hold on” you might say “that has emerged already right? Homo Sapiens.” No. What we have is a technologically advanced civilization. There is a subtle difference.
Hope from the hills
Kenya's Chyulu Hills host not just rich wildlife and beautiful landscapes but a groundbreaking partnership to conserve biodiversity and combat climate change between its people and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
Greening cities
Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet. The leaders of the world’s great cities recognize that fact and are taking urgent action. But mayors need strong allies to deliver the transformations needed to create sustainable green cities of the future. There is no greater partner for our campaign to save the planet than the Global Environment Facility.
The Global Environment Facility Partnership
Climate change and education
Educating on climate change and sustainable development issues is a necessity. In Latin America there are some promising experiments being carried out that deserve to be replicated both in the entire region and on other continents. There are some aspects however that are being neglected.
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The Global Environment Facility at work. Oyster openings
Life can be hard in The Gambia – and even harder for the women who harvest oysters a local delicacy and key source of protein in the West African country’s swamps and wetlands.
Being accountable
The Global Environment Facility is a knowledge-based organization in which evaluation is central to accountability results and learning. For it to be truly useful it must respond to changes both in the external landscape in which the Facility operates and in internal modus operandi. During the Facility’s 7th Replenishment process the Independent Evaluation Office is completing its sixth Comprehensive Evaluation under the theme ‘the Global Environment Facility in the Changing Landscape of Environmental Finance’. All such replenishments have been accompanied by an overall performance study and as previously the purpose of the Comprehensive Evaluation is to provide solid evaluative evidence to inform the negotiations gauging the results and impact of the Facility’s work through a wide mix of methodologies. The Office is pioneering state-of-the-art geospatial methods that allow us to measure environmental change over longer periods of time both before and after project implementation and to compare project sites with matched control locations.
Rescuing rainforests
Maps of the Brazilian Amazon in 2000 and 2010 show unmistakable signs of dramatic change. Indigenous lands and several categories of protected areas now occupy millions of hectares forming a consolidated landscape of conservation. But it might not have been so.
Zoom: Arab youth: Architects of their future
French photographer Yan Bighetti de Flogny was in Pakistan when in the course of a conversation with a hotel owner he learned of the existence of Ibn Battuta the fourteenth-century Moroccan explorer. Unfairly little-known Ibn Battuta is “perhaps the greatest traveller who has ever lived” as an article in the Courier of August- September 1981 tells us.
AI innovations to counter social challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being harnessed to tackle two of the most challenging problems today – the flagrant proliferation of fake news and the increasing invasion of individual privacy. Factmata which uses AI to fight disinformation and D-ID which protects identities from facial recognition systems using AI were two of the ten winners of the 2019 Netexplo awards presented at UNESCO Headquarters in April.
The Global Environment Facility at work. Grandma’s secret
The textile industry has long been an important employer in Mauritius. It is hard work with many women combining domestic responsibilities with long days in the factories just to feed their families. So when factories began to close in the 1990s many found themselves struggling to survive.
Ideas: A tale of two futures
Is artificial intelligence (AI) on the verge of becoming completely autonomous? The answer will depend on us alone. It is up to us to define the future of humanity in harmony with this technological tool that we sometimes perceive as a terrifying monster.
Global action is needed
There is no doubt that science is increasingly expanding our knowledge of the problem of environmental degradation (including our role in it) and the extent to which it affects our ability to continually improve our living conditions.