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Climate change mitigation: reducing emissions

Our climate is changing because of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Despite notable emission reductions over the last decades, the EU must transform production and consumption systems to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Mitigating climate change means reducing the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This involves cutting greenhouse gases from main sources such […]

Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change Program

Deadline: 7-Jul-23 Google for Startups is inviting applicants for the Accelerator Climate Change Program. Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change is a 10-week, equity-free hybrid program for Seed to Series A startups tackling Climate Change with tech. In partnership with Google Cloud, the Middle East and Africa program helps high-potential startups based in Middle East and Africa […]

Ocean Reporting Network

The network will establish a collaborative ecosystem of journalists around the world. Together, they will uncover the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities, and the supply chains facilitating global demand for the ocean’s increasingly dwindling resources. The Pulitzer Center, a global organization that […]

Employment Opportunity: Tutorial Assistant (Forest Botany)

Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) was established on the 1st July, 1984 by the Act of Parliament No.6 of the same year, which was repealed by the Universities Act No.7 of 2005 from which the SUA Charter was granted in 2007. The vision of the University is to be a leading University in the provision […]

China releases renewed citizens’ 10 dos and don’ts for environment protection, underlining knowledge on biodiversity, climate change

China released its newly revised code that is to guide citizens’ environment-friendly lifestyles and actions on World Environment Day on Monday, with added content on biodiversity preservation and climate change tackling. The National Event on World Environment Day was held on Monday in Jinan, the capital city of East China’s Shandong Province. At the event, […]

IUCN Launches the Project “Enhancing climate resilience of Biodiversity Hotspots in Jordan”

Under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Muawieh Radaideh, The Minister of Environment, The International Union for Conservation of Nature – Regional Office for West Asia (IUCN ROWA) and Global Affairs Canada launched the project “Enhancing Climate Resilience of Biodiversity Hotspots in Jordan”.  The project aims to improve the resilience of vulnerable ecosystems as well as communities […]

Open Call: Integrating Climate Change & Biodiversity into the Forest Management of the Future

Deadline: 23-Sep-23 Does your work contribute towards the healthy, resilient and productive forests? Velux Stiftung’s call for proposals on innovative, sustainable and integrative forest management may be just what you’re looking for! This call for proposals in forestry is focused on developing or integrating solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient ecosystems services while […]

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. To address these issues, the third international Species on the Move conference convened in Bonita Springs, Florida, in May […]