News
03 May 2012
From the Natural Capital Declaration website:
Support grows for finance initiative in run-up to Rio+20.
3 May 2012: The CEOs of Standard Chartered (UK), Nedbank (South Africa) and the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, have signed the Natural Capital Declaration [see note 1], bringing the number of endorsers to 20.
The new endorsers join the CEOs of financial...
Christina MacFarquhar 30 Apr 2012
Nick Oakes, Environmental Economist with GCP, will be speaking on a panel on "Innovative financing mechanisms to drive large-scale public-private investments" at the 3rd annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference held by Environmental Finance in London on 3 & 4 May.
For more information and the full programme, please visit the Environmental Finance webpage...
Christina MacFarquhar 26 Apr 2012
James Hulse, Director, Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD) will be speaking on the “Corporate Commitments to Reducing Forestry Emissions” panel at the 3rd annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference in London on 3 & 4 May.
Visit the FFD website for more details.
Christina MacFarquhar 29 Mar 2012
Fire, floods, snow, drought and human activity – how do they interact in Amazonia – and what are the challenges and implications for people living there, and beyond?
Amazon ecology, climate and policy experts (click here for details) gathered this week at the Extreme Events in Amazonia session, organised by CCST/INPE, MCTI, WWF-Brazil, the University of Exeter and GCP, at the...
27 Mar 2012
Time: 16:00 - 17:30 followed by poster session
Location: Room 16 of the International Conference Centre
Summary
This is a parallel session at the Planet Under Pressure Conference in London (Day 2: ‘Options and opportunities’).
It is co-organised by INPE (Brazil's National Institute for Space Research), GCP, MCT (The Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and...
Christina MacFarquhar 26 Mar 2012
This is a parallel session at the Planet under Pressure conference in London.
When: 16:00 on Tuesday 26 March 2012.
Climatic extreme events in Amazonia have caused widespread socio-ecological stresses and may contribute towards an acceleration of global climate change. This session focuses on the science of climate extremes and impacts, answering the question: What are the challenges facing the...
Christina MacFarquhar 06 Mar 2012
Natural Capital Declaration webinar explains relevance to financial institution
Today (6 March 2012), National Australia Bank (NAB) explained in a webinar that it signed the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) due to the vulnerability of banks and their customers to the world’s mounting loss of natural capital.
Rosemary Bissett, Head of Sustainability Governance and Risk at NAB,...
Christina MacFarquhar 20 Feb 2012
UNEP FI, the Global Canopy Program (GCP) and The Center for Sustainability Studies of the Business Administration School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) will be holding a one-hour webinar on 6 and 7 March to explain the nuts and bolts of the Natural Capital Declaration.
The Natural Capital Declaration (or NCD) is a CEO-level statement by the financial sector demonstrating its...
Christina MacFarquhar 29 Jan 2012
On 29 January 2012, North Rupununi Makushi forest and savannah communities, The North Rupununi District Development Board, the Government of Guyana, Iwokrama International Centre and GCP jointly launched a project to monitor and protect tropical forest resources using smartphones and the internet.
Members of the communities, located in south-west Guyana, will learn to use the phones to record...
12 Dec 2011
The seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the UN Climate Change Conference held over the last two weeks in Durban marks a turning point in the almost 20-year history of the Climate Change Convention. Next year, in December 2012, the Kyoto Protocol – currently the only legally binding agreement under the Convention – will expire, and without a successor there is little...