| Climate and Energy Update New Worldwatch Project Aims to Measure the Impact of Renewable Energy |
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Worldwatch, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency, is taking a leading role in facilitating a global shift to sustainable energy through the creation of aRenewable Development Index. The project aims to help governments develop policies that will help them best utilize their renewable energy potential as a way to meet national growth and development goals. It seeks to identifybarriersconstraining renewable energy deployment, to developstrategiesthat can help policymakers overcome those hurdles, and to develop a set ofrenewable energy indicators that countries can use to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of renewable support programs. Read: Why We Need the "Renewable Development Index": New Worldwatch Project Aims to Measure the Impact of Renewable Energy (Part 2 of 2), by Evan Musolino and Alexander Ochs |
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بانک جهانی در گزارشی 254 صفحه ای آمار و ارقامی از وضعیت کشاورزی، جنگل و تنوع زیستی، اقیانوس، انرژی و انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای، آب و بهداشت، محیط زیست و سلامت، حسابداری ملی ارائه داده است. این گزارش Little Green Data Book نام دارد و آمار کلیه کشورها در گزارش فوق ارائه شده است. به اطلاعات مربوط به کشورمان هم مراجعه نمائید. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.

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لوک ناکاجا دبیر اجرایی کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی ملل متحد از سال2007 می باشد آقای لوک ناکاجا در کشور آفریقایی بنین متولد شده و فارغ التحصیل رشته معماری و شهرسازی از دانشگاه لومه می باشد. وی چندین سال به عنوان رئیس یک شرکت مشاوره ای فعالیت نمود و متعاقباً برای ادامه تحصیل وارد دانشگاه هارورد و انستیتوی بانک جهانی شد. وی از سال 1999 تا 2005 به عنوان وزیر محیط زیست، مسکن و
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یکی از جنبه هایی که به اقتصاد سبز می انجامد و یا به تعبیری به ارتقائ آن کمک می کند اکوتوریسم یا طبیعت گردی است. در روزهای 22 و 23 اردیبهشت سال جاری مصادف با 11 و 12 می که روزهای آخر هفته یعنی شنبه و یکشنبه می باشد که مصادف با روز جهانی پرندگان مهاجر است، تاکید ویژه ای بر پرنده نگاری پرندگان مهاجر شده است. برای دریافت فایل مربوطه اینجا را کلیک کنید.

یکی از منابع آلوده کننده محیط زیست خودروها می باشند و به این نتیجه رسیده اند که با تولید و ترویج استفاده از اتومبیل های الکتریکی می توان با این معضل برخورد نمود. در این راستا آزانس بین المللی انرژی سیاست های 16 شهر کشور آسیایی، اروپایی و آمریکای شمالی را بررسی نموده است.
Publication Surveys Electric Vehicle Policies in 16 Asian, European and North American Cities
5 May 2012: An International Energy Agency (IEA) supported publication, titled "EV City Casebook: A Look at the Global Electric Vehicle Movement," addresses best practices for electric vehicle usage.
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بانک جهاین عملکرد خود در زمینه کاهش مصرف آب و کاغذ و کاهش انتشار گازهای گلهانه ای را خوب ارزیابی کرد.
World Bank Sustainability Review Shows Efforts to Reduce Water and Paper Use, Offset Emissions
3 May 2012: The World Bank's Fiscal Year 2011 Sustainability Review highlights the Bank's efforts to reduce water and paper use and offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to Bank activities
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برندگان جایزه مسابقه عکس روز جهانی جنگل معرفی شدند:
World Forest Day Photo Contest Winners
Congratulations to Mr. Abhay Gandhe, who won 1st and 3rd prizes in the World Forest Day Photo Competition, and Mr. Ravi Kumar Shrestha, who won 2nd prize. Their inspiring photographs are on display on the RECOFTC website
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هر روز در خبرها شاهد کشت و کشتار و جنگ در گوشه و کنار جهان هستیم که این جنگ ها علاوه بر مرگ و میر انسان ها، خسارات زیانباری هم به محیط زیست وارد می کند. این بار برنامه عمران ملل متحد در قالب گزارشی از منظر محیط زیست به این جنگ ها می پردازد. برای دریافت گزارش 134 صفحه ای آن، اینجا را کلیک کنید.
UNEP Releases Report on Environmental Impacts of Peacekeeping Operations
1 May 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a report on the environmental impacts of UN peacekeeping operations. “Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations" provides an overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The 16 current peacekeeping missions constitute the largest environmental footprint in the UN system
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پروژه جدیدی به نام "تنوع زیستی برای خوراک و تغذیه" با هدایت موسسه تنوع زیستی بین الملل در 4 کشور کنیا، برزیل، سریلانکا و ترکیه با مشارکت مالی تسهیلات محیط زیست جهانی و یونپ و فائو راه اندازی شد. در این پروژه 35میلیون دلاری محققین به دنبال بررسی نقش تنوع زیستی در تامین خوراک و مواد غذایی میلیاردها انسان در کره زمین می باشند.
Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project Launched
28 April 2012: A new project has been launched to address the narrowing variety of foods in people’s diets, titled the “Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project.” The project is coordinated by Bioversity International, under the leadership of Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey. The project is co-financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as well as by international agencies, with implementation support from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO).
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تا کنون برای تغییر اقلیم، انواع و اقسام گزارش و کارگاه را داشتیم که در حد بضاعت و حوصله بخش کوچکی را از این طریق اطلاع رسانی نمودم اما این بار کنوانسیون تنوع زیستی هم خواسته عقب نماند با همکاری سازمان بهداشت جهانی کارگاهی در مورد ارتباط تنوع زیستی و سلامت انسان ها برگزار می کند.
WHO and CBD Hold Workshop on Interlinkages between Human Health and Biodiversity
April 2012: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recently convened a workshop on the interlinkages between human health and biodiversity.
Participants included representatives from multiple WHO departments and regional offices, the CBD, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and members of the scientific community.
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شبکه مدیریت ریسک خشکسالی آفریقا - آسیا خبرنامه شماره ماه می 2012 خود را منتشر کرد. انتشار شماره های قبلی آن را هم از این طریق اطلاع رسانی نموده بودم. در این شماره اخباری راجع به چند همایش و کارگاه آموزشی مرتبط، چند فرصت شغلی و چندین گزارش راجع به مدیریت خشکسالی ارائه شده است. برای دریافت شماره ماه می این خبرنامه اینجا را کلیک کنید.
We are pleased to inform you that the May 2012 issue of Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP) newsletter is now available for download
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به راستی چه طور می شود مخاطرات بلایا را کمتر و کمتر نمود. شوربختانه در حال حاضر سامانه مناسبی برای بررسی روند این موضوع وجود ندارد و با انشاء الله و ماشاء اله بلایا مدیریت می شوند!
در اینجا به منابعی برای مدیریت بلایا و بررسی اقدامات و اثربخشی آن ها در زمینه کاهش مخاطرات بلایا اشاره شده است.
Monitoring and Evaluating Disaster Risk Reduction
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باز هم تغییر اقلیم این بار در کارگاهی تاثیر تغییر اقلیم بر حوزه های آبخیز دارای آب های بین المللی بررسی شده است. برای دریافت برنامه کارگاه اینجا را کلیک کنید. طبق معمول اصلاً این مقوله ها به ما ارتباطی ندارد بنابراین شرکت کننده ای هم در این کارگاه نداشتیم!
UNECE Workshop Focuses onTransboundaryClimate Change Impacts on Basins
26 April 2012: The Third Workshop on Water and Climate Change in Transboundary Basins, which addressed the theme "Making Adaptation Work," called attention to the expected impacts on climate change, including the higher risk of drought and floods, on shared transboundary basins. The event brought together over 140 participants to discuss conflict prevention and cooperation to address climate change adaptation at the transboundary level
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در دهه های اخیر بر شدت و فراوانی وقوع بلایای طبیعی در مناطق مختلف جهان افزوده شده است. در اینجا آمار و اطلاعاتی راجع به بلایای طبیعی منطقه آسیای مرکزی ارائه شده است. برای دریافت فایل گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
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پایش و ارزیابی یکی از بخش های مدیریت پروژه می باشد که متاسفانه در کلیه پروژه های داخلی مغفول می باشد و تنها در پروژه های بین المللی هستند که رعایت می شوند. پایش و ارزیابی به حدی کارآمد هستند که هر گونه خطا و انحرافی از اهداف و برنامه های پروژه را در کوتاه ترین زمان ممکن به مدیریت پروژه اعلام و مدیریت مجبور به اصلاح آن ها می شود. افسوس که در کشور مغفول هستند.
Towards better monitoring and evaluation

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ایکاردا یکی از 15 مرکز تخصصی تحقیقات کشاورزی است که زیر نظر گروه مشورتی تحقیقات بین المللی کشاورزی فعالیت می نماید. این مرکز تحقیقات مختص تحقیقات مناطق خشک می باشد یکی از شاخه های تحقیقاتی این مرکز کشاورزی حفاظتی است برای دریافت گزارش 26 صفحه ای کشاورزی حفاظتی منتشره در سال 2012 اینجا را کلیک کنید.
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گزارش جامعه سلطنتی در مورد کاهش فقر، مصرف پایدار و تنظیم داوطلبانه خانواده را می توانید از اینجا دریافت کنید.
Royal Society Report Calls for Poverty Reduction, Sustainable Consumption and Voluntary Family Planning
26 April 2012: A new report by the Royal Society provides an overview of the impacts of people on the planet's resources and offers several recommendations, including a call to not consider population and the environment as two separate issues.
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چندی پیش شنیدم که موسسه جایکای ژاپن پروژه ای در زمینه حفظ و احیائ جنگل ها و مراتع استان چهار محال و بختیاری دارد. دیگه خبری نشد گفتم لابد حرفی بود مثل حرف های دیگر، چون اگر بنا بود کاری انجام شود، در سطح ملی هم دفاتر ستادی باید مطلع می شدند و به هر حال اهمیتی ندادم تا چند روز پیش که یکی از دوستانم که مامورتی به آن دیار داشت خبر از اجرای این پروژه در آن استان داد. والله چه بگویم. اگر بنا بر احیاء باشد با زور و تامین اعتبار هم می شود عرصه را احیا کرد ولی اگر بنا بر این است که روشی جدید ارائه شود خوب بد نبود در سطح ملی هم طرح ارائه می شد تا ایرادات احتمالی برطرف و اگر هم ایرادی نداشت که یک بازآموزی و ظرفیت سازی برای کارشناسان باشد.
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بانک جهانی و صندوق بین المللی پول گزارش سال 2012 خود در خصوص رسیدن و یا تحقق اهداف توسعه هزاره در سال 2012 را منتشر کردند. عنوان گزارش سال 2012 عبارت است:" قیمت خوارک، مواد غذایی و اهداف توسعه هزاره". بررسی این گزارش تاثیر نامطلوب افزایش قیمت ها بر مردم خصوصاً در کشورهای در حال توسعه را تشریح می نماید. برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
World Bank, IMF Report on MDGs Progress
April 2012: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have published the 2012 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This year's edition, titled “Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals,” highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices.
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دپارتمان مدیریت منابع طبیعی و محیط زیست وبسایتی با عنوان راه پایداری راه اندازی نموده است. آدرس سایت عبارتست از: http://www.fao.org/nr/sustainability/en/
This is to inform you of the release of a new website of the FAO Natural Resources Management and Environment Department called Sustainability Pathways.
This website hosts projects under development that looks at some aspects of sustainability, such as:
Ø How do we define and measure sustainability in the food and agriculture sector? Check the SAFA project and e-Forum;
Ø In a choc scenario such as high energy price, could organic livestock systems meet consumption demands sustainably? Check the SOL project;
Ø How could producers be best rewarded for environmental stewardship? Check the PES project;
Ø What is the environmental footprint of the food loss and waste and could it be reduced? Check the FWF project and database;
Ø What are the agriculture, forestry and fisheries issues in the global move towards a green economy? Check the GEA project.
We also feature relevant FAO publications and partnerships, as well as a list of interesting meetings: www.fao.org/nr/sustainability
Enjoy!
Noemi Nemes
موسسه بین المللی سیاست غذایی گزارش 2011 خود را منتشر نمود برای دریافت نسخه های مختلف آن به قسمت پائین مراجعه نمائید.
2011 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI launches the 2011 Global Food Policy Report, a new annual publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels.
The report highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFPRI’s food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into 2012.
Read report online
Launch event
Download or order
Preview booklet
Media materials
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سایت اتحادیه جهانی حفظ طبیعت یک تعداد سوال چند گزینه ای تعبیه نموده است برای سنجش دانش مردم از محیط زیست. برای انجام آزمون اینجا را کلیک کنید.

How much do you know about the many benefits that nature provides? Find out by having a go at our quiz, then challenge your friends!
فاتو مجموعه ای از گزارشات جنگلداری منطقه شامل یادگیری برای آینده: آموزش جنگلداری، جنگل برای آینده ای سبزتر، بازنگری بر سیاستها و نهادهای مرتبط با جنگلداری، حکمرانی بهتر- جنگلداری بهتر، جنگلها برای فقرا، جنگلها و مقوله جنسیت در محیطی در حال تغییر، چالش های تنوع زیستی جنگل، بخش دوم جنگلداری آسیا - اقیانوسیه منتشر نموده است که برای دریافت هر یک از آن ها به انتهای متن رفته و روی هر کدام کلیک نموده تا دریافت نمائید.
FAO Releases Asia-Pacific Forestry Briefs
April 2012: Policy briefs resulting from the second Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study (APFSOS II) highlight concerns with biodiversity loss in the region, a need for improved governance and better forest management at the field level, and a call for enhanced training and awareness of forestry issues. APFSOS II was issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
APFSOS II synthesizes observations and findings from almost 50 countries on the status and trends of Asia-Pacific forestry. The publication also analyzes key factors driving changes in forestry in the region, and sets out three scenarios for 2020: "Boom," "Bust" and "Green Economy." The report concludes by outlining priorities and strategies to move the region's forestry sector onto a more sustainable footing and to provide continued benefits to future generations.
The brief titled "Forests for a greener future" reviews trends in deforestation and forest degradation, biodiversity loss in the region and threats to biodiversity. It outlines the region's roundwood production and demand, and stresses that a way forward for the region is investment in forest resources as a mechanism for mitigating climate change and its impacts. It also calls for gradually relinquishing direct government control over forest resources, to improve social and economic justice.
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نقاط بسیاری در جهان وجود دارند که نام گرم ترین نقطه را با خود یدک می کشند اما بد نیست بدانیم که بالاترین درجه حرارتی که تاکنون اندازه گیری شده است 58 درجه سانتی گراد برابر با 136.4 درجه فارنهایت در روز 13 سپتامبر 1922 در ایستگاه هواشناسی ای در العزیزه لیبی می باشد. پیش از آن هم این عنوان به دره مرگ ایالت کالیفرنیا تعلق داشت که رکوردش 7/56 درجه سانتی گراد برابر با 134 درجه در مقیاس فارنهایت بود که در ماه ژوئیه 1913 ثبت شده بود.
اما بر پایه مطالعات ماهواره ای (Landsat 7) بخشی از کویر لوت ایران در 5 سال گرم ترین نقطه زمین بوده است. تصاویر ذیل را ملاحظه نمائید. تصویر بالائی رنگ طبیعی و تصویر پائینی تصویر مادون قرمز است که هر دو مربوط به روز 6 ژوئیه 1999 می باشند. به هر حال این تصاویر و نوشتار منتشره توسط ناسا تائیدی بر ادعای دکتر کردوانی می باشد.
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برندگان سال 2012 جایزه زیست محیطی بنیاد گلدمن معرفی شدند. امسال بیست و سومین سالی است که این بنیاد جوایز زیست محیطی خود را توزیع می نماید. مبلغ جایزه این برندگان 120 هزار دلار است. این برندگان عبارتند از:
Announcing the 2012 Recipients
The day is finally here! The Goldman Environmental Foundation is proud to announce the 2012 Goldman Prize recipients. Click the links below to find out more about each recipient.
Africa: Ikal Angelei, Kenya
Asia: Ma Jun, China
Europe: Evgenia Chirikova, Russia
Islands & Island Nations: Edwin Gariguez, Philippines
North American: Caroline Cannon, USA
South & Central America: Sofia Gatica, Argentina
دفتر مواد مخدر و جرائم سازمان ملل (UNODC) در گزارشی به اثرات زیست محیطی مفاسد و ارتشاء می پردازد. برای دریافت فایل آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.
UNODC Publication Highlights Environmental Impacts of Corruption
12 April 2012: A collection of papers, titled "Corruption, Environment and the UN Convention Against Corruption," has been published by the UN Office on Drigs and Crime (UNODC) to highlight the role of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in fighting corruption and illegal trade.
The papers stem from a special event, titled “Impact of corruption on the environment and the UN Convention against Corruption as a tool to address it,” held at the fourth Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 26 October 2011.
The CITES contribution, written by Marceil Yeater, highlights the existence of corruption in the environment and natural resource sectors, and shows the impact, such as over-exploitation, pollution, loss of wildlife habitat and loss of revenues, that result from these crimes. Yeater highlights that the crimes do not attract sufficient government resources, and underscores the promising role of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) in fighting illegal cross-border trade in wildlife.
Yeater concludes that the growing use of electronic permitting and other information technologies should be used to make it more difficult to engage in corruption. She also emphasizes the role of incentives and recognition of those who refuse to engage in corrupt practices. [Publication: Corruption, Environment and the UN Convention Against Corruption]
روز پنجم از ماه پنجم ( می) امسال 2012 را روز تاثیر تغییر اقلیم نام گذاری نموده اند
The Invitation
Dear Friends,
Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before.
But because the globe is so big, it’s hard for most people to see that it’s all connected. That’s why, on May 5, we will Connect the Dots.
In places from drought-stricken Mongolia to flood-stricken Thailand, from fire-ravaged Australia to Himalayan communities threatened by glacial melt, we will hold rallies reminding everyone what has happened in our neighborhoods. And at each of those rallies, from Kenya to Canada, from Vietnam to Vermont, someone will be holding a…dot. A huge black dot on a white banner, a “dot” of people holding hands, encircling a field where crops have dried up, a dot made of fabric and the picture taken from above — you get the idea. We’ll share those images the world around, to put a human face on climate change–we’ll hold up a mirror to the planet and force people to come face to face with the ravages of climate change.
یکی از موضوعات مطرح در تغییر اقلیم، تاثیر آن بر ناامنی غذایی است فائو به منظور ارائه راهکاری برای کاهش اثرات زیانبار تغییر اقلیم بر معیشت و امنیت غذایی مردم اقدام به برگزاری یک دوره آموزشی در این زمینه نموده است که این دوره رایگان بوده و به صورت راه دور و از طریق اینترنت برگزار می شود.
FAO Launches e-Learning Course on Food Security and Climate Change
21 March 2012: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has launched a free course that aims to build understanding on how climate change effects agriculture and food security and practical steps that can be taken to minimize negative impacts.
The course is available through online registration or via CD-Rom, and is aimed at policy makers and people working within development agencies. It contains training materials that can be used and adapted for face to face training. In the session on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, the course identifies people-centered strategies, improved water management, conserving soil moisture, organic matter and nutrients, and using short-cycle seed varieties that allow for harvesting before the peak of the cyclone season. The final session on Climate Smart Agriculture presents insights on how climate smart agriculture can transform agricultural systems to make them more productive, while preserving the environment. [FAO e-learning course on Food Security and Climate Change]
یونیتار UNITAR اقدام به برگزاری یک دوره آموزش از راه دور با عنوان "آشنایی با اقتصاد سبز" از 14 ماه می تا 22 ژوئن نموده است. برای اطلاع از مباحث و سرفصل دوره و نیز هزینه ثبت نام به متن ذیل مراجعه نمائید.
Introduction to a Green Economy:
Concepts, Principles and Applications
UNITAR/UNEP E-Learning Course, 14 May – 22 June 2012
Dear Madam/Sir,
In the run up to Rio+20, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will deliver a new e-learning course entitled “Introduction to a Green Economy: Concepts, Principles and Applications”, from 14 May to 22 June 2012. Participants will learn about different concepts and facets of the green economy, as well as global, national and sector-specific challenges and opportunities to advance low-carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive development. Additionally, participants will begin to develop basic skills for applying the green economy concept in a real world economic, policy and/or personal context. The e-course has been developed to comply with the requirements of the International ECBCheck Quality Label for e-Learning.
Comprehensive information and registration details are available at http://www.unitar.org/event/unitarunep-e-learning-course-introduction-green-economy-concepts-principles-and-applications and in the attached flyer.Registration is open until 7 May 2012. Get your virtual seat reserved now!
Please feel free to disseminate information about this course through your networks, and don’t hesitate to contact us (envgov@unitar.org) should you need any further information.
Yours,
The UNITAR Environmental Governance Programme Team
Background
The concept of a green economy is receiving increasing international attention, as countries explore new patterns of development that take into account economic, social and environmental sustainability considerations. “Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication” will be one of the main themes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), June 2012.
In order to provide interested stakeholders from government, business, civil society and academia with an introduction to the green economy concept the United Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are offering an interactive e-learning course.
Target Groups
The course targets groups and individuals that are interested in obtaining a general understanding about the green economy concept and latest developments. They include:
• Civil servants in national Ministries, provincial departments and local authorities
• Diplomats from Permanent Missions and Ministries of Foreign Affairs
• Environmental managers in private sector and civil society organizations
• Faculty, researchers and students
• Interested citizens
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn about different concepts and facets of the green economy, as well as global, national and sector-specific challenges and opportunities to advance low-carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive development. Additionally, participants will begin to develop basic skills for applying the green economy concept in a real world economic, policy and/or personal context.
After completing the course, participants will be able to:
· Define the concept of a green economy and explain its value
· Describe social, environmental and economic benefits of advancing a green economy
· Identify enabling conditions for greening national economies
· Provide examples of successful green economy investments, initiatives and projects
· Identify principal challenges and opportunities for greening key economic sectors
· Describe national planning processes in support of a green transformation
· Recognize the range of international and regional green initiatives and support services to foster green development
· Apply the green economy concept to a real world economic, policy and/or personal context
Methodology
The course pedagogy is adapted to professionals in full-time work. Participants are provided with the opportunity to learn through various experiences: absorb (read); do (activity); interact (socialize); and reflect (relate to one’s own reality). The estimated average workload is seven hours per week over a 6 week period. The reading of an e-book is complemented by a range of learning activities and experiences that include interactive exercises, discussion forums and experiential learning.
Course Fee and Registration
The course participation fee is 600 USD. A number of fellowships are available for participants from Developed Countries (LDCs) and non-profit organizations. For details please contact the UNITAR Environmental Governance Programme at envgov@unitar.org.
Register at: http://www.unitar.org/event/unitarunep-e-learning-course-introduction-green-economy-concepts-principles-and-applications. Registration deadline: 7 May 2012.
هر 5 سال یکبار فائو گزارشی از کشورها در مورد منابع جنگلی اخذ و جمع آوری می نماید که به گزارش منابع جنگلی یا Forest Resources Assessment - FRA معروف است. اخیراً فائو در قالب یک سی دی کلیه گزارشات را جمع بندی کرده است که می توانید آن را از بخش انتشارات فائو درخواست نمائید.
2010 FAO Forest Assessment Available on CD-ROM
2 April 2012: The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010), compiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, is now available on CD-ROM.
The CD contains the key findings, country reports, result tables, terms and definitions, as well as the main report of FRA 2010, all in the six UN languages (Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). Information has been collected from 233 countries and territories between 1990 and 2010, and presents results for 90 variables measuring the extent, condition, uses and values of forests and other wooded land.
In addition to deforestation, the Assessment identifies unsustainable forest management, climate change, forest fires, insect pests and diseases, natural disasters and invasive species, as threats to forest biodiversity. [FAO Press Release] [IISD RS Story on the Launch of FRA 2010]
فائو در قالب گزارشی 8 صفحه ای، 100 حقیقت مرتبط با اجلاس Rio+20 را منتشر کرد. در این گزارش ارتباط مردم با محیط زیست، معیشت غذایی، محیط زیست و ... بررسی شده است. برای دریافت این گزارش 8 صفحه ای اینجا را کلیک کنید.
FAO Releases 100 Facts in the Run-up to Rio+20
March 2012: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has produced a fact sheet ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), highlighting the links between people, food and the environment. The fact sheet, titled "100 days to Rio+20, 100 facts: Making the link between people, food and the environment," documents sustainable development challenges related to hunger, water, forestry, gender, fisheries, land, food supplies/production/waste, and nature and the environment. It presents simple facts that together describe the current status of these systems. [Publication: 100 days to Rio+20, 100 facts: Making the Link between People, Food and the Environment]
خبرنامه شماره ماه آوریل شبکه مدیریت ریسک خشکسالی در آفریقا و اسیا منتشر شد. در این خبرنامه ضمن معرفی چندین گزارش مرتبط با مدیریت خشکسالی مانند خشکسالی سال 2011 کنیا و بلایای طبیعی سال 2011، اشاره ای به تعدادی سایت فعال در زمینه خشکسالی در منطقه آسیا و آفریقا داشته است. علاوه بر موارد فوق به اختصار به برخی نشست های مرتبط در سطح منطقه اشاره شده است. برای دریافت شماره اخیر آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.
We are pleased to inform you that the March 2012 issue of Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP) newsletter is now available for download at http://www.disasterriskreduction.net/fileadmin/user_upload/drought/docs/1_AADP%20Newsletter%20-%20April%202012.pdf.
AADP builds on the successful experiences of African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN), which was established jointly by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) and the UNDP Drylands Development Centre in 2005. It intends to scale up the ADDN’s drought peer-learning/-assistance efforts from Africa regional to Africa-Asia inter-regional level.
All the previous issues of the AADP e-newsletter are available for download here.
All the previous issues of the ADDN e-newsletter are available for download here.
Please contact Yuko Kurauchi at yuko.kurauchi@undp.org for any comments you may have on this E-Newsletter and/or for any information you would like to share with over 2,000 ADDN Newsletter subscribers in Africa, Asia and beyond.
We would also like to take this opportunity to request your participation in a short survey related to the ongoing mid-term review of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Project under the framework of the Integrated Drylands Development Programme. We would like to hear from you, as members of the AADP network, to have your opinions and insight as to what the project is doing well, and what could be improved. To that end, we have designed an online survey, accessible here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZVV2H3L.
The survey will be available online until Wednesday, 11th May, 2012. It is a short survey and should take no more than 10 minutes of your time to complete. Thanks in advance for your collaboration. If you experience any issues with completing the survey online, please email Mairead Heffron, the consultant responsible for the mid-term review, at maireadheffron@gmail.com.
در منابع مختلف اشاره شده است که قریب یک میلیارد نفر ساکن مناطق خشک جهان می باشند. این مردم عمدتاً متعلق به کشورهای در حال توسعه و به تعبیری فقیر جهان می باشند. در نشست های بین المللی (سال 2000 ) کشورها متعاهد به ارتقاء وضعیت در اهداف یا آرمان توسعه هزاره شده اند.

کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی و برنامه عمران ملل متحد در گزارشی 67 صفحه ای به وضعیت ساکنین مناطق خشک و همکاری بین این دو مجموعه سازمان ملل برای رسیدن به اهداف توسعه هزاره در مناطق خشک می پردازند. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
دبیراجرایی کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی و مدیر برنامه عمران ملل متحد برای اجرای برنامه های استراتژیک کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی در خلال سال های 2014-2012 توافق نامه ای امضا نمودند. در این تفاهم نامه بر مباحث متنوعی تاکید شده است که از آن جمله 4 محور ذیل می باشد:
1- بهبود شرایط معیشتی جمعیت مبتلابه در مناطق خشک،
2- بهبود شرایط اکوسیستم های متاثر،
3- تولید منافع جهانی از طریق اجرای کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی،
4- بسیج منابع برای حمایت از اجرای کنوانسیون از طریق ایجاد همکاری موثر بین بازیگران ملی و بین المللی.
برای دریافت متن تفاهم نامه اینجا را کلیک کنید.
UNCCD, UNDP Strengthen Strategic Collaboration on Life of Drylands Populations
28 March 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) have signed a Programme of Cooperation to formalize their long-standing strategic partnership to address poverty among the poorest populations.
Motivated by the findings of a joint study they conducted on the scope of poverty in areas affected by desertification and/or land degradation, and in view of the current scenarios of climate change, the partnership identifies three priority areas of action. The organizations will collaborate in supporting affected countries to align their National Action Programmes (NAPs) with the 10-year Strategy of the UNCCD and in mainstreaming the Programmes in national and sectoral development planning. In addition, there will be joint efforts in undertaking knowledge sharing, learning and improving the knowledge on the drylands, as well as in conducting policy analyses and advocacy, giving particular attention to the linkage between sustainable land management, climate change and biodiversity.
At the signing, Olav Kjorven, Assistant Secretary General and Director of UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy, emphasized that "Addressing desertification, land degradation and drought is essential for attaining sustainable development. It will be impossible to meet the Millennium development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty and hunger if life does not improve for the poor people of the drylands.”
A study that UNDP and UNCCD carried in 2011, titled "The Forgotten Billion," showed that poverty eradication is lagging the most among a majority of the over two billion people who live in the drylands. [UNCCD Press Release] [UNCCD-UNDP Programme of Cooperation (2012-2014)] [Publication: The Forgotten Billion]
هیات بین دول تغییر اقلیم گزارش کاملی در مورد مدیریت ریسک های مرتبط با اقلیم منتشر نموده است. در این گزارش تاکید ویژه ای بر آسیب پذیری جامعه در معرض بلایا شده است و به نوعی تاکید شده است که مدیریت بلایا در گرو توانمند سازی و به تعبیری ارتقا توان برگشت پذیری جامعه در مقابل بلایا می باشد. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
IPCC Releases Full Report on Managing the Risks of Disasters
28 March 2012: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its full report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The report examines how climate extremes, in combination with social vulnerability, determine the impacts and likelihood of disasters, and the influence of climate change on climate extremes and other events that can contribute to disasters.
The Special Report features nine chapters on: risk management, observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to, as well as losses resulting from, such events; local and international adaptation options; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies. The Special Report was drafted jointly by Working Group I (The Physical Science Basis) and Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the IPCC.
Among other findings, the Special Report identifies a likely increase in the frequency of heavy precipitation events or proportion of total rainfall. SREX also identifies, with medium confidence, an increase in the length or number of warm spells or heat waves.
At the launch of the report, Chris Field, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II explained that “the main message from the report is that we know enough to make good decisions about managing the risks of climate-related disasters. Sometimes we take advantage of this knowledge, but many times we do not.”
SREX authors will present report findings to stakeholders in developed and developing countries, and are scheduled to share findings with policy makers in Latin America, Asia and Africa. [IPCC Press Release] [Publication: IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation]
ساعت 20:30 به وقت محلی روز سی و یکم مارس مصادف با 12 فروردین ساعت خاصی بود که به "ساعت زمین" معروف بود. در این لحظه بنا بود در حرکتی نمادین یک ساعت کلیه وسایل برقی خاموش شوند تا به این ترتیب به کنترل گرمایش زمین و تغییر اقلیم کمکی شود.
این حرکت را صندوق جهانی حمایت از طبیعت (World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)) در سال 2007 مطرح نمود که از سال 2010 هم سازمان ملل به آن حرکت پیوست و یک ساعت کلیه وسایل برقی خاموش شدند. در سال جاری 135 کشور و 5200 شهر در این حرکت مشارکت نمودند.
اما به راستی با یک ساعت خاموش کردن وسایل برقی می شود به فکر محیط زیست بود!!
SPOTLIGHTING SUSTAINABILITY, THE UN GOES DARK FOR EARTH HOUR 2012
New York, Mar 31 2012 3:05PM
The United Nations will today turn off the lights for one hour at its Headquarters in New York and other facilities around the world in observance of “Earth Hour”, an annual global event that seeks to raise awareness on the need to take action on climate change.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that the UN was turning off its lights “in solidarity with men, women and children – 20 per cent of all humankind – who live with no access to electricity.”
Mr. Ban, who in September launched an initiative to achieve universal and sustainable access to this vital resource, called Earth Hour “a symbol of our commitment to sustainable energy for all,” and underscored the need to “fuel our future with clean, efficient and affordable energy.”
Earth Hour, launched in 2007 in Australia by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), calls for people, organizations and cities to turn off their non-essential light for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. local time.
This is the third year that the United Nations joins hundreds of millions of people around the world in switching off the lights. Last year, more than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries participated in the event.
While the actual hour is a symbolic call to action on climate change and not intended as an energy-saving measure, event organizers are asking people to “go beyond the hour” and take meaningful steps to reduce their energy consumption after the light go back on.
Secretary-General of the UN Sustainable Development conference (Rio+20) that will take place this June in Brazil, Sha Zukang, said Earth Hour is an event that helps people think about the need to take actions that promote sustainable development.
“We cannot continue business as usual. We need to rethink the way we use our resources, how we promote well-being and protect the environment. We need to pursue new ideas,” Mr. Zukang said.

On Saturday, March 31 at 8:30pm EST, hundreds of millions of people, businesses, and governments around the world will unite to celebrate Earth Hour by switching off lighting and electronics to raise awareness for climate change and other sustainability issues.
Earth Hour is an event organized by the World Wildlife Fund and is considered the largest environmental event in history. Hundreds of millions of people, businesses, and governments around the world unite to switch off lighting and electronics to raise awareness for climate change and other sustainability issues.
The GEF – as one of the largest public funders of climate change projects – is inviting you to join our GEF secretariat staff by switching off your computers, monitors, printers, other electronics and office lights at work before you are leaving for the weekend. At home, on Saturday evening the only thing you have to do to be part of the environmentally sensitive global community is to switch off your lights for one hour. It's an easy, energy-saving signal to the world.
We will do it, and we are counting on you to do it too....
Last year, more than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries participated by switching off their lights ––sending a powerful message for action on climate change. During previous Earth Hours, the lights have been turned out at iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Giza Pyramids, as well as in major cities such as Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, Canada.
If you want to explore local Earth Hour events in your respective country please check the interactive map on Earth Hour's website: http://www.earthhour.org/page/around-world/explore-map
For the GEF, it's more than an hour, it's part of its 20 year old mandate: The GEF/UNEP en.lighten initiative is one good example for that.
Electricity for lighting accounts for almost 20% of electricity consumption and 6% of CO2 emissions worldwide. If not addressed immediately, global energy consumption for lighting will grow by 60% by the year 2030. If all developing and emerging countries join the en.lighten initiative, CO2 emissions from lighting can be reduced by almost half.
The phase-out of inefficient incandescent lamps and their replacement with higher efficiency light bulbs, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) or compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), is one of the easiest and most cost effective ways to significantly reduce carbon emissions. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) /Global Environment Facility (GEF) en.lighten initiative has been established as a globally coordinated effort to accelerate the transition to efficient lighting to reduce the threat of global climate change.
Despite improvements in technology and the looming climate threat, most developing and emerging countries around the world have not taken steps towards the switch to energy efficient lighting. Making the transition would significantly impact the ability to use existing power without having to build new and expensive generation facilities. For example, India would be able to provide power to 35 million homes, and South Africa to 4 million homes, from the electricity saved from replacing all existing incandescent lamps with energy efficient alternatives.
En.lighten is a top prioritty for lighting industry leaders Philips and Osram Sylvania who are providing substantial technical and financial resources to promote this effort.
En.lighten and its partners have targeted 2016 for the global phase-out of inefficient lighting products. Providing expert technical and policy guidance to countries will help to meet this date and ensure that replacement bulbs meet global quality standards and that used bulbs are disposed of in an environmentally sound way. So far, a total of 30 countries from four continents have joined the Global Partnership Program and more countries are expected to join soon, with your help.
So take the challenge now! Show your support for the switch to energy efficient lighting to reduce the threat of global climate change and improve the quality of life for people. Everyone around the world should be able to look forward to a brighter and more sustainable future.
It's as easy as turning off your lights during Earth hour. Then let that be a reminder to replace any inefficient light bulbs with new efficient ones!
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موسسه بین المللی توسعه محیط زیست در زمینه یادگیری از طریق عمل بسیار فعال می باشد. چندی است که مشارکت از مفاهیم پایه آن که مداخله فعالانه در برنامه ریزی، اجرا، پایش و ارزیابی فراتر رفته و رویکردش به سطح " حکمرانی یا Governance" رسیده است. در گزارش ذیل که خلاصه آن را ملاحظه می کنید روی این که چگونه می شود جوانان را برای مشارکت در برنامه ها و نهایتاَ حکمرانی از طریق یادگیری از طریق عمل آماده نمود کار نموده است که می توانید این گزارش 17 فصلی را از اینجا داونلود کنید.
All over the world citizens are starting to demand accountability from those in power. We are seeing exciting experiments in participatory governance. But are they working for young people? What spaces are most promising for the participation of children and young people in governance?
Across Africa youth (particularly boys and young men) are seen as a ‘lost generation’: frustrated, excluded and marginalised from decision-making processes.
Contributors to this special issue demonstrate how this is changing. Young people in Africa are challenging the norms and structures that exclude them, engaging with the state and demanding accountability. This special issue describes how young people are exercising their right to participate and developing the knowledge, skills and confidence to affect to change. It explores methods of communication, appraisal, monitoring and research which are involving young people in decision-making spaces. It asks how can we re-shape how young people perceive and exercise citizenship? How can we redefine and deepen the links between young citizens and the state?
This issue demonstrates the persistence, passion and enthusiasm that youth bring to governance processes – and how they are driving change in creative and unexpected ways. It highlights how young Africans are addressing the documentation gap that surrounds youth and governance in Africa and enabling other participatory practitioners – young and old – to learn from their experiences.
It will also be valuable for those working in other regions.
Participatory Learning and Action is the world’s leading informal journal on participatory approaches. It uses the expertise of guest editors to provide up-to-the minute accounts of participatory approaches in specific fields. Since 1987, PLA has provided a forum for participatory practitioners – community workers, activists and researchers – to share experiences, reflections and methodological innovations with others, providing a genuine ‘voice from the field’.
پرداخت عوارض زیست محیطی برای کمک به حفظ محیط زیست ابتکاری بدیع است که در کشور ما نیز تاکنون به اجرا در نیامده است و برای اولین بار در قالب پروژه منارید از این ابتکار استفاده خواهد شد. موسسه بین المللی توسعه محیط زیست در تحقیقی عملی به دنبال یافتن انگیزه هایی برای راه اندازی این ابتکار برای حفظ محیط زیست بوده است که ماحصل این تحقیق را در این گزارش می توانید بیابید.

موسسه بین المللی برای توسعه محیط زیست یا بخشی به نام مناطق خشک دارد و حدود 25 سال است که در این زمینه در کشورهای آفریقایی کار کرده است. اخیراَ در ماه مارس 2012 گزارشی دو صفحه ای ماحصلی از این 25 سال کار خود در تحقیقات عملی را ارائه داده است که می توانید از اینجا به آن دسترسی یابید.

در میان آزانس های علمی و اجرایی مختلفی که هر از چند گاهی سر می زنم این یکی یعنی IFPRI یا موسسه بین المللی تحقیقات سیاست غذایی یکی از مهم ترین ها می باشد. این موسسه یکی از 15 مرکز تحققیاتی وابسته به گروه مشورتی تحقیقات بین المللی کشاورزی یا CGIAR می باشد. هر از چند گاهی این موسسه مجله ای با عنوان INSIGHT منتشر می کند عنوان روی جلد باعث شد با ولع و علاقه بیشتری برای داونلود آن اقدام نمایم " زنجیره ارزش" . اگر چه مطالب دیگری هم در این شماره ارائه شده است که برای افرادی که با دیدی کلی نگرانه به مباحث می پردازند بسیار قابل استفاده می باشد. برای دریافت شماره اخیر آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.

در ایام باقی مانده تا برگزاری اجلاس ریو + 20 دبیرخانه کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی اقدام به برگزاری یک سلسله کارگاه های آموزشی در زمینه تخریب سرزمین، بیابان زایی و خشکسالی می نماید.
در این مقطع دبیرخانه کنوانسیون یاد شده شروع به انتشار فراخوان برای دعوت 15 نفر خبرنگار فعال و موفق برای شرکت در این کارگاه سه روزه نموده است. در این نشست کارشناسانی هم حضور خواهند داشت که ضمن ارائه مباحث مرتبط، یک بازدید میدانی هم برگزار خواهد شد. آخرین مهلت برای ثبت نام 9 آوریل می باشد.
In the run-up to Rio+20, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) plans a series of regional media workshops on land degradation, desertification and drought.
At this time, UNCCD is calling for applications from environmental journalists from Asia. Up to 15 successful journalists will be sponsored to participate in a 3-day workshop, which will include meetings with land experts and a field trip, showcasing both the challenges of land degradation and the best practices of combating it. Deadline for applications is 9 April.
For more information please visit:
http://www.unccd.int/en/media-center/MediaNews/Pages/highlightdetail.aspx?HighlightID=67
یونسکو یا سازمان آموزشی، علمی و فرهنگی ملل متحد هر دو سال یکبار به افراد و یا موسسات فعال در زمنیه ارتباط با جوامع روستائی جایزه ای به ارزش 20000 دلار آمریکا می پردازد. امسال دو سمن یکی از کشور کنیا و دیگری از نپال به عنوان برندگان این جایزه معرفی شدند که باید این جایزه بین این دو تقسیم شود.
UNESCO Announces Winners of Rural Communication Prize
24 March 2012: The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced the two winners of the Prize for Rural Communication of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The two organizations, one in Kenya and the other in Nepal, help rural communities improve their lives and take part in public debate.
The winner organizations, which will share the US$20,000 Prize for Rural Communication, were announced at a ceremony held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on 24 March 2012. According to UNESCO, Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and provides free access to information about development and social issues to communities living in the arid parts of East Africa, through 12 community-based Maarifa (knowledge) centers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
In Nepal, the Community Radio Support Centre/Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (CRSC/NEFEJ) is a non-governmental organization that promotes environmental journalism and public awareness of sustainable development issues.
The UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communication, which is awarded every two years, recognizes meritorious and innovative efforts to improve communication for rural communities in developing countries. [UNESCO Press Release]
بانک جهانی اقدام به بررسی وضعیت قطع غیر قانونی درختان جنگلی نموده و سپس در ادامه به بررسی راه کارهای قانونی برای کنترل و توقف تخریب جنگل ها از ناحیه قطع غیر قانونی نمود البته این مطلب حاکی از آن است که این بانک با شرکت های بزرگ و بعضاً چند ملیتی و دولت ها که به طور قانونی اما نابخردانه اقدام به قطع و نابودی جنگل ها می نمایند کاری ندارد.
برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
World Bank Releases Study on Illegal Logging
21 March 2012: A World Bank study, titled “Justice for Forests: Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging,” looks at law enforcement tactics to prevent corruption and prosecute criminal organizations dealing in “dirty money” from illegal logging.
According to the World Bank, illegal logging is controlled by organized crime, accounts in some countries for up to 90% of all logging, and involves “dirty money” that is untaxed and used to pay off corrupt government officials. The World Bank study delves into policy and operational strategies to combat corruption. It aims to inform policy makers and forestry and law enforcement actors how they can use the criminal justice system in fighting illegal logging.
The study opens with an overview of illegal logging and the criminal justice system. It then outlines how the law can be used to better combat forest crime, and suggests ways of strengthening stakeholder engagement in forest law enforcement.
The study underscores that illegal logging has "enormous environmental and societal costs," as it leads to biodiversity loss, increases carbon emissions, causes landslides, and undermines the resource-based livelihoods of rural peoples. [Publication: Justice for Forests: Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging]
سازمان خوارو بار و کشاورزی ملل متحد یا فائو در واپسین روز سال 1390 آمارنامه سال 2012 خود را منتشر کرد. گزارش فوق آمارهای بسیار قابل توجهی از رشد جمعیت گرفته تا سرمایه گذاریف فقر و گرسنگی و ... را ارائه می دهد. برای مشاهده و دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
FAO Statistical Yearbook Provides Figures on Food, Agriculture and Sustainable Development
20 March 2012: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has presented a collection of global statistical data on the state of the agricultural resource base, hunger dimensions, feeding the world, and sustainability.
The yearbook provides an in-depth examination of various issues, including: pressures on land and water resources by agriculture; the impacts on national economic and social development of women’s lack of access to agricultural tools and land; the status of investment in agriculture; malnutrition; food wastage and loss; agriculture and environmental stability; and food price volatility.
The information in the yearbook allows users to deepen their understanding on agricultural productivity increases as it relates to social and environmental inputs, and provides evidence of the inter-relationship between agriculture and a cross-sector of development challenges. [Publication: FAO Statistical Yearbook 2012] [FAO Press Release]
اقیانوس ها گستره وسیعی از جهان هستی ما را اشغال می کنند و خدمات بسیار گسترده ای ارائه می دهند. متاسفانه اقدامات و فعالیت های نابخردانه انسان ها خسارات جبران ناپذیری به این جزء مهم کره زمین وارد می نمایند.
اخیراً موسسه محیط زیست استکهلم ( Stockholm Environment Institute) با کمک طیف گسترده ای از کارشناسان و دانشمندان کشورهای مختلف اقدام به تهیه گزارش با عنوان ارزش گزاری بر اقیانوس نموده است که برای دریافت پیش نویس آن می توانید اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Valuing the Ocean: Preview Summary
This study, the work of an international, multi-disciplinary team of experts coordinated by SEI, will be published as a peer-reviewed book later this year; this summary is being released to inform preparations for the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
The ocean faces a multitude of interconnected threats that is unprecedented in modern history. This book intends to help crystallise our understanding of the value of ocean services to humankind, allowing them to be accounted for as we plan for a future fraught with risk and uncertainty.
This book is a link in a chain rather than an end in itself. The conclusions and monetary figures it presents are not definitive – too much is yet unknown and uncertain for that – but are intended to contribute towards a new approach to ocean governance, one that is fully integrated and prioritised within the broader picture of social, environmental and economic policy. We critically need to go beyond the current approach of addressing (or ignoring!) one problem at a time. We must create management strategies that are aimed at optimising the sustainable benefits we can obtain from marine resources across scales from local to global, and in the face of several interacting and escalating threats.
The very chemical, thermodynamic and biological foundations of the ocean are being jeopardised by human activity, putting at risk marine ecosystems and services on which humankind so essentially depends. We need to be made aware of what we stand to lose if we continue to neglect the ocean and fail to adequately address global environmental change. This book hopes to guide policy-makers, accelerate the implementation of new management tools and systems, and – most importantly – encourage people to ask themselves what the oceans are really worth to them and to the future of our planet.
Download the draft Executive Summary (PDF, 1.48MB)
Download previews of selected chapters:
The impacts of multiple stressors (PDF, 1.02MB)
Economic perspectives (PDF, 173kb)
The Pacific Ocean: a case for coordinated action (PDF, 225kb)
امروز جهانی آب است. می دانید روزی 2 تا 5 هزار لیتر آب لازم است برای تامین نیازهای غذایی روزانه هر فرد. حساب کنید چقدر آب هر روز لازم است برای تامین نیازهای روزانه جمعیت بالای 7 میلیارد نفری دنیا. ظاهرا بر اساس اعداد و ارقام موجود این جمعیت به 9 میلیارد نفر در سال 2050 خواهد رسید. حساب کنید اون موقع چقدر آب لازم خواهد بود. میزان کمبود آب هم باید محاسبه شود...
برای دریافت بروشور 4 صفحه ای UN Water اینجا را کلیک کنید تا مباحث مرتبط با آب که سازمان ملل باید دنبال کنند کدام ها هستند.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Countdown to World Water Day! Did you know that it takes 2,000 to 5,000 litres of water to produce one person's daily food? Learn more and find out what's happening near you
World Water Day 2012 - Water and Food Security - 22nd March 2012
www.unwater.org
There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 1
خوب بازار توافق نامه ها و معاهدات بین المللی، منطقه ای و جهانی داغ است آن هم بسیار داغ. این روزها هم توافق جدیدی تنظیم شده است برای محافظت محیط زیست از زباله های خطرناک الکترونیکی.
بنا بر گزارش سازمان جهانی مخابرات میزان این نوع زباله ها به طور تصاعدی در حال افزایش است. البته خوب مهم هم نیست مدارس مناطق فقیر آفریقا تا مدت ها پذیرای این تجهیزات از رده خارج کشورهای شمال به عنوان اعانه و کمک به آموزش کودکان محروم آفریقایی هستند!!
بگذریم امیدوارم این بار دبیرخانه کنوانسیون بازل و سازمان بین المللی مخابرات راهکاری برای رفع این معضل بیابند.
NEW UN AGREEMENT SEEKS TO PROTECT ENVIRONMENT FROM HAZARDOUS ELECTRONIC WASTE
New York, Mar 13 2012 1:05PM
A new United Nations agreement seeks to diminish the damage caused by electronic waste through the collection and recycling of hazardous materials, as well as by introducing measures to improve the ways in which this equipment is managed.
According to the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU), electronic waste is expected to grow exponentially, particularly in developing countries, yet only 13 per cent of electronic waste is recycled, many times without safety procedures in place.
The agreement, which was signed between the ITU and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC), intends to strengthen collaboration between information and communications technology (ICT) and environmental policymakers to address this issue.
“The ICT sector is already making significant progress in improving its environmental performance and reducing e-waste through improved best practices and standards,” http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/CM01.aspx">said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré.
“The collaboration with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention will allow the global community to address this ever-increasing problem through a holistic approach, involving the recycling industry as well as environmental policy makers.”
Electronic waste, which contains toxic materials used in the manufacturing process, can cause widespread damage to the environment and human health. Through the agreement, which was signed yesterday, ITU and SBC will exchange information and practices and will work on joint projects and programmes to set ICT standards and raise awareness among countries about electronic waste management.
“ICT equipment has to be dealt with in view of its entire life-cycle, and this includes the time when the equipment comes to its end-of-life and becomes e-waste,” said Jim Willis, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention.
“Collaboration between ITU and SBC will further our shared objectives in support of sustainable development that essentially includes environmentally sound management of waste.”
دیر زمانی نیست که تاکید شده است بازار جای خود را در محیط زیست باز نماید. در جدیدترین اقدامات و ابتکارات مقوله اقتصاد سبز مطرح شده است. اما فارغ از این ها در هر منطقه ای اکوسیستم یک سری کالاها و خدمات ارائه می دهند که برخی منتفع می گردند و تا کنون هم باب نبوده که منتفعین به حفاظت کنندگان آن خدمات و کالاها مبلغ و یا به عبارتی حق الزحمه ای پرداخت نمایند. اما این مورد شدیداً مورد تاکید سازمان های بین المللی می باشد و Payments for Environmental (PES) Services
نام گذاری شده است که برای اولین بار هم بناست این شیوه و راهکار در پروژه منارید در استان های یزد، کرمانشاه و سیستان و بلوچستان به اجرا در بیاید. اما این سیستم به نظر می رسد باید در محیطی محدود بهتر پاسخ دهد که در گزارش ذیل وضعیت آن در سطح حوزه آبخیز مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
State of Watershed Payments
An Emerging Marketplace
Tracy Stanton, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, Caroline Ott - Ecosystem Marketplace
How can we as a society address the many problems that plague the waterfront? How do we get people to be more mindful about their water use? How do we regulate pollution flowing into our waterways? How do we put a stop to the growing number of dead zones around the world? And how do we ensure that humans – and the plants and animals on which we depend – have access to the quantity and quality of water that they need to survive? This question – at its core – is what this publication is about. It is about one of the tools that can (and will increasingly) be used to resolve our water problems: Payments for Watershed Services (PWS). While PWS may not be the only solution, this document shows that in some parts of the world it can be part of the solution. In some cases it can help change the way we value water, and it can generate the resources needed to remediate and protect our watersheds. Here, for the first time ever, we have an attempt at cataloguing the use of PWS across the world connected to the amount of money being transacted. The emphasis here is on the word “attempt.” By its own admission this catalogue is not exhaustive. By means of online searches, interviews, questionnaires, emails, and phone calls, the Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) team has tried to get a sense of how this tool is being utilized: what is out there, who is doing what, and how much money is changing hands. But some pieces of the story were likely missed due to lack of or inconsistently reported information or oversight. Like all pioneering works, or better yet, like a first draft, this report (this story) is a work in progress.
به نقل از سایت سازمان جنگل ها، مراتع و آبخیزداری کشور:
برای مشاهده تصاویر این مراسم اینجا را کلیک کنید.
اقتصاد سبز یکی از تازه ترین مباحث در حیطه محیط زیست می باشد که بحث ها و جدل های سیاسی فراوانی به دنبال دارد که ظاهراً علاج اقتصاد به رکود رفته کشورهای اروپایی و توسعه یافتگان در این اقتصاد می باشد و خوب ما و سایر کشورها هم تابع هستیم و با لختی درنگ مجبور به پیروی خواهیم بود.
به تازگی دبیرخانه کنفرانس تجارت و توسعه United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) این موضوع را از زوایای مختلف بررسی و ادله ای برای خود ارائه داده است. برای دریافت گزارش 34 صفحه ای فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
A new UNCTAD Discussion Paper (No. 205) reviews the fallacies of green growth in coping with climate change and the implications for development space. Drawing on ample empirical data and examples, the paper analyses the environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency and social-political acceptability of the main elements in the green growth toolbox. The key results of the analysis are as follows:
Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth� as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. “Green growth� may work well in creating new growth impulses with reduced environmental load and facilitating related technological and structural change. But can it also mitigate climate change at the required scale (i.e. significant, absolute and permanent decline of GHG emissions at global level) and pace? The UNCTAD Discussion Paper argues that growth, technological, population-expansion and governance constraints as well as some key systemic issues cast a very long shadow on the “green growth� hopes. One should not deceive oneself into believing that such evolutionary (and often reductionist) approach will be sufficient to cope with the complexities of climate change. It may rather give much false hope and excuses to do nothing really fundamental that can bring about a U-turn of global GHG emissions. The proponents of a resource efficiency revolution and a drastic change in the energy mix need to scrutinize the historical evidence, in particular the arithmetic of economic and population growth. Furthermore, they need to realize that the required transformation goes beyond innovation and structural changes to include democratization of the economy and cultural change. Climate change calls into question the global equality of opportunity for prosperity (i.e. ecological justice and development space) and is thus a huge developmental challenge for the South and a question of life and death for some developing countries.
The paper is available at: www.unctad.org/en/docs/osgdp2011d5_en.pdf
For inquiries and further information on the paper, please contact:
ulrich.hoffmann@unctad.org
برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد یا یونپ (UNEP) ابتکار عملی به راه انداخته در خصوص اقتصاد سبز که در آن بومیان آفریقا محور فعالیت هستند. برای راه اندازی و به جریان انداختن این ابتکار، در روزهای 15 و 16 آگوست سال 2011 کارگاهی در آفریقای جنوبی با عنوان Green Economy, Equity & Green Governance برگزار شد که برای دریافت گزارش 27 صفحه ای آن، اینجا را کلیک کنید.
به طور معمول در ابتدای هر آئین نامه و یا دستورالعملی، واژه نامه ای ارائه می شود تا کلیه خوانندگان برداشت واحدی از عبارات و واژه ها داشته باشند. چندی بعدی اجلاس ریو فرا می رسد و در آن جا کلی عبارت و واژه هست که روی آن بحث و جدل انجام می شود. برای افرادی که این مباحث را در روزهای برگزاری اجلاس و یا احیاناً بعد از آن تعقیب خواهند کرد بهتر است که با این عبارات آشنایی کامل داشته باشند. برای دریافت فرهنگ واژه های مرتبط با اجلاس ریو + 10 اینجا را کلیک نمائید.
Rio+20 Dictionary
Provides explanations of the most commonly referenced concepts/initiatives in the zero-draft compilation document. The dictionary gives brief definitions of the 97 UNCSD hot topics.
بیش از شش دهه از تشکیل سازمان ملل متحد می گذزد و در طی این دوره فراز و نشیب هایی داشته و تغییراتی در ساختار برخی ارکان خود داشته است. چندی پیش یعنی در سال 2010 این سازمان با فراخوانی عمومی از کلیه سیاست گزاران، دانشگاهیان، فعالین جامعه مدنی و بخش خصوصی کلیه مناطق و بخش ها در خواست نمود تا نظرات خود را در مورد ساختار دستگاه های این سازمان ارائه دهند.
در سال 2012 هم این سازمان قصد انجام مجدد این کار در ارتباط با دستگاه های عمرانی و توسعه ای را دارد. برای این منظور سایتی هم طراحی شده است که پذیرای نظرات عموم مردم می باشد. این سایت به زبان های انگلیسی، فرانسوی و اسپانیایی طراحی شده است. برای ورود به این سایت اینجا را کلیک کنید.
I wish to inform you about the `FutureUN' project (www.futureUN.org) which intends to examine the future of the UN Development System and is gathering perspectives from policymakers, academics, civil society and private sector from all the regions and sectors.
The UN development system comprises 30 agencies and organizations (many of which work on environment and development issues) created over a period of more than 100 years. It has grown by accretion with no deliberate architecture. Not surprisingly, there is duplication within the system, but also some gaps which are not adequately filled.
The 'FutureUN' project has arisen from a recognition that the 30 agencies of the UN Development System have lived through several decades of a fast-changing global environment and will need to adapt to the new realities, challenges and actors.
In February 2010, the Future of United Nations Development System (FUNDS) Project carried out its first survey on the future of the United Nations. The Survey report is available from: http://www.futureun.org/surveys/
We invite you to participate in our 2012 Survey on evaluation of the UN Development System's role, function and performance.
The questionnaire (available in English, French and Spanish) takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and will provide important insights to the dialogue on the future of the UN Development System. Get Started!
As a respondent you will receive your own copy of the report of the survey. The survey is open until 15th March 2012.
Best regards,
Vikas Nath
Associate Director
The Future of United Nations Development System (FUNDS) Project
www.FutureUN.org
آموزش و ارتقا سطح آگاهی های عمومی امری بسیار ضروری است که به جرات می توان گفت کمتر مورد توجه قرار می گیرد. شاید این موضوع به واسطه این باشد که در کارهای فنی کمتر افراد مطلع و کارشناس امور اجتماعی به کار گرفته می شوند و فن گرایان هم تمایل دارند چرخه تولیدات خود را، خود با انتقال به مردم کامل کنند که بدیهی است هر کسی را بهر کاری ساختند و آن گونه که باید این مهم به انجام نمی رسد.
بگذریم اجلاس ریو در راه است و کلی کارشناس از سراسر جهان در حال بررسی آخرین وضعیت گفتمان ها در سطح جهان و منطقه و روشن و نهایی نمودن مواضع خود هستند.
این بار ظاهراَ تدابیری اندیشیده شده است تا علاوه بر خبرگان زیست محیطی مردم عادی و کودکان هم در جریان امور قرار گیرند. در این خصوص سایت هایی هم راه اندازی شده اند.
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The goal is to get every school on the planet to teach their students about the crucial issues addressed by Rio+20: the website Home page starts with seven jargon-free slides that summarise some of the Rio+20 issues, linked to posters outlining some solutions. It goes on to propose ideas for Action: 1. The UNESCO-supported ‘My City+20’ – Model Rio Earth Summit idea; The site also links to the UN’s Rio+20 sites and its Global Conversation Campaign: The Future We Want.It will, we hope – through the Add section – link to many other great initiatives for action and awareness-raising. Like your’s! Please share your ideas with me, or Simon Howlett, the young webmaster who created the site, at:
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Our Planet یا سیاره ما نام مجله ای است که از دیرباز توسط برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد منتشر و به رایگان در اختیار علاقمندان قرار می گرفت. سال ها پیش یعنی زمانی که اینترنتی در کار نبود من هم جزو دریافت کنندگان این مجله بودم و با برخی مباحث که در دانشگاه خبری از آن ها نبود از آن طریق آشنا می شدم. شماره اخیر این مجله ضمن پرداختن به 40 سال سابقه کاری یونپ نیم نگاهی هم به اجلاس Rio+ 20 دارد. برای دریافت مجله اینجا را کلیک کنید.
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سازمان ملل متحد در گزارشی تاکید کرد که از یک سو با توسعه های ناپایدار، نیاز به آب افزایش می یابد و از دیگر سو هم تغییر اقلیم باعث کاهش نزولات جوی در بخش های عظیمی از کره زمین می شود. این دو دست به دست داده و عرضه آب را با مشکل جدی مواجه می کند.

INCREASING DEMAND AND CLIMATE CHANGE THREATEN GLOBAL WATER SUPPLIES – UN REPORT
New York, Mar 12 2012 12:05PM
An unprecedented rise in the demand for food, rapid urbanization and climate change are significantly threatening global water supplies, according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that a radical new approach to managing this essential resource is needed to be able to sustain future consumption levels.
The UN World Water Development Report, which will be launched at the World Water Forum in Marseille, estimates that there will be a 70 per cent increase in demand for food by the year 2050, leading to a 19 per cent surge in water used for agriculture. At the moment, 70 per cent of freshwater is already being used for agricultural purposes.
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اگر چه امروز درست یک سال از وقوع تسونامی ژاپن و خسارات جبران ناپذیر وارده به آن کشور و مرگ بیش از 20 هزار نفر می گذرد و هنوز مناطق وسیعی زیر آوارها مانده اند و دولت اقدامی برای بازسازی آن ها برنداشته است اما سازمان ملل متحد از دولت ژاپن به واسطه اقداماتش در زمینه بازسازی مناطق بحران زده تقدیر نمود.
ONE YEAR AFTER DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE, UN PRAISES JAPAN’S RECOVERY
New York, Mar 9 2012 1:05PM
On the eve of the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people in eastern Japan, United Nations officials praised the country’s recovery and highlighted the progress made to improve nuclear safety.
“Just a few days ago, UN experts reported that Japan is making enormous progress,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at an event in New York on Thursday evening, organized by the Japan’s Permanent Mission to the UN to mark the one-year anniversary. “In Sendai alone, they are processing 460 tons of waste every day. Across the region, they are recycling. Old debris is being used for new buildings. This is very heartening.”
Mr. Ban also voiced his admiration for the efforts of Japanese people to overcome the disaster and stressed that the UN will continue to work on ways to improve measures to prevent and deal with natural disasters of such magnitude.
In addition to causing widespread destruction along part of Japan’s coastline on 11 March last year, the tsunami also slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, located in Fukushima Prefecture, disabling cooling systems and leading to fuel meltdowns in three of the six units. The accident shook the nuclear industry, regulators and governments; and weaknesses in the design and various oversights in the power station were later identified, which could have diminished the damage.
In his remarks, Mr. Ban stressed that since the accident he has sought to raise the profile of nuclear safety and security on the international agenda, in order to help prevent future nuclear accidents from happening.
“In the weeks after the accident, I brought together experts from across the UN to examine what happened and come up with recommendations for the world,” he said, adding that the high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security, held in September last year, was also a step towards real progress.
During that high-level meeting, members of the UN’s atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), unanimously endorsed a nuclear safety action plan that set out a blueprint for national and international action to improve nuclear safety.
In Vienna, the Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, underlined that the international community had learned many lessons from the accident, which has helped make nuclear safety stronger than it was a year ago.
“Fukshima Daiichi was a very serious accident, but we know what went wrong and we have a clear course of action to tackle those causes – not only in Japan but anywhere in the world,” Mr. Amano said. He added that countries around the world are searching out weak links in their own nuclear safety systems and taking action to strengthen them.
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, <"http://www.unisdr.org/archive/25578">said the earthquake and tsunami also served to highlight the importance of having in place prevention measures,
“One of the great learnings from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami which can be applied in many other disaster-prone countries is the absolute importance of preparing populations at risk for the worst-case scenario,” Ms. Wahlström said, noting the key role that the Japanese authorities and citizens had during disaster.
“Japan excels when it comes to public awareness of risks, evacuation drills and mobilising the population in a way that few other countries can emulate. We are aware of examples of where schoolchildren seized the initiative and escaped the tsunami while also helping younger children to flee,” she said, adding that the death toll would have been much higher if people had not responded to the early warnings.
“Let us not forget this great achievement when discussing all the other things that could have been done better,” Ms. Wahlström said.
چند صباحی است که بحث زمین و زمین خواری و به عبارتی فساد های مرتبط با زمین مطرح شده و دادگاه های خاصی هم برای برخورد با مفاسد زمین خواری تشکیل شده است. فائو هم گزارشی 12 صفحه ای در این خصوص تهیه کرده است که می توانید برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.

تسهیلات محیط زیست جهانی (GEF) سال هاست که در زمینه محیط زیست فعالیت دارد. اخیراً گزارش کوتاهی از اقدامات خود در زمینه آب، محیط زیست و معیشت پایدار منتشر نموده است. برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
GEF Publishes Review of Water, Environment and Sustainable Livelihood Projects
In recent decades, our planet's freshwater sources have been rapidly degraded by a range of global pressures such as population growth, food shortages and a changing climate.
The world's rivers, lakes, and groundwater systems do not respect political borders and competing uses of water for drinking, irrigation and bulk supply. Together with the pollution of common water bodies, are increasing cross border tensions are increasing.
If large water systems continue to be managed in a unilateral and fragmented way the food supply and livelihoods of billions of people will be endangered. Collective, multi-country cooperation toward a shared vision of action is necessary to sustain the many benefits that these complex water systems generate.
The GEF International Waters area has helped countries work together to secure a wide range of economic, political, and environmental benefits from shared surface water, groundwater, and marine systems. But the GEF action on water does not stop there.
Together with its many partner agencies the GEF is also helping to integrate sustainable water solutions into other areas such as sustainable land management, biodiversity, chemicals management, the energy sector, and climate change adaptation. These GEF operations address the water crisis by integrating water considerations into other sectors and have shown countries a path to achieve greater water use efficiencies and a more balanced approach to competing water uses.
تغییر اقلیم بحثی است که سال هاست در سطح جهان مطرح است واَ بر کلیه شقوق محیط زیست تاثیر می گذارد. جنگل ها هم از این تغییر بری نمی باشند و باید ضمن شناخت تاثیرات تغییر اقلیم بر آن ها، راهکارهایی برای کاهش اثرات تغییر اقلیم بر آن ها یافت. فائو در گزارشی 55 صفحه ای به این مقوله می پردازد. برای دریافت این گزارش، اینجا را کلیک کنید.
FAO has the pleasure to provide you with the following publication:
- Forests and Climate Change Working Paper 10. Forest Management and Climate Change: a literature review -
This document summarizes knowledge and experiences in forest management as a response to climate change, based on a literature review and a survey of forest managers. This is part of an FAO-led process to prepare climate change guidelines for forest managers. It examines climate change impacts on forests and forest managers throughout the world. The document also reviews the main perceived challenges that climate change poses to forests and their managers. It summarizes experiences in preparing for and reacting to climate change in different types of forests. Finally, it indicates a number of gaps in enabling conditions (related to knowledge, institutional setting and culture) that hamper forest managers from responding effectively to climate change and its impacts.
Download: http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/md012e/md012e00.pdf
Please visit the FAO Forest and Climate Change website to access other publications, our monthly newsletter or information about our work. http://www.fao.org/forestry/climatechange/en/
در این مسابقه جوانان 30-13 ساله می توانند سخنرانی ویدیویی کوتاه 3-2 دقیقه ای در خصوص اقدام برای آینده تهیه و ارسال کنند.
TckTckTck and Climate Nexus Launch Rio+20 Video Speech Contest
7 March 2012: The TckTckTck campaign and Climate Nexus have launched a "Win A Date With History" online video speech contest, encouraging young people to submit short video speeches containing ideas for decisive action on sustainability. The winner will deliver their speech at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) in June 2012.
The aim of the contest is to ensure that at Rio+20, governments agree to bold actions to assure a sustainable future for everyone. To take part in the contest, which is open to everyone aged 13-30 years, participants can upload 2-3 minute speeches in which they describe their vision for the future. A short-list will be developed through an online voting system, with the video creators with the most votes being selected as finalists. A jury will then select and announce the winner on 15 May.
ایفاد روز بیستم فوریه 2012 اعلام کرد که کمکی به میزان 47 میلیون دلار برای ارتقاء وضعیت معیشتی مردان و زنان روستایی از طریق برنامه جامع توسعه کشاورزی Guangxi به چین می دهد.
در قالب برنامه فوق روستائیان علاوه بر بازار، به اطلاعات نیز دسترسی می یابند. ضمن این که توان تحمل و ارتجاع آن ها در مقابل مصیبت های اقلیمی از طریق درک این واقعیت که شدت و فراوانی وقوع این دست بلایا افزایش یافته و چالش بزرگی برای کشاورزان خرده پا می باشد، افزایش می یابد. کل اعتبار این پروژه 98 میلیون دلار است که باقی مانده آن توسط دولت محلی Guangxi تامین می شود. جمعیتی بالغ بر 1/2 میلیون نفر تحت پوشش این پروژه قرار می گیرند.
IFAD Supports Chinese Smallholder Farmers in Preparing for Climate Change
20 January 2012: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced a US$47 million loan to China to enhance the livelihoods of rural men and women through the Guangxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project.
The project will scale up innovative approaches to agriculture, improve access to markets and information. In particular, it will seek to increase resilience to climate-induced calamities, based on an understanding that natural disasters have increased in frequency and intensity, posing a growing challenge to smallholder farmers. The project's total cost amounts to US$98 million and will be co-financed by the Guangxi government and project beneficiaries who are estimated to be 1.92 million rural farmers.
در نشست ماه گذشته شورای حکام یونپ ( برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد) بحث جالب توجهی هم در مورد اصول اقتصاد میان دست اندرکاران و گروه های عمده مرتبط درگرفت که نهایتاَ پیش نویسی با 9 اصل جهت اظهار نظر عمومی تدوین شد. برای دریافت متن آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.

Last month at the UNEP Governing Council meeting there was a very good discussion on the principles of a green economy amongst stakeholders and major groups. The discussion built on all of the work on principles developed by the ITUC, ANPED, Stakeholder Forum/Bio-Regional, the Green Economy national dialogues facilitated by IIED, the Earth Charter, and many more. The discussion identified 9 key principles for a green economy, which not only helped to define a collective understanding of what a green economy must deliver but went on to be picked up by governments throughout the ministerial meetings.
To build on the momentum around this process, we have opened up an online global consultation on these 9 draft principles to get your feedback and input. The consultation is really short and should only take five minutes of your time. We would really appreciate your voice, your input, your expertise. LINK: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LB9Q3GW
We will present the conclusions from this initial consultation phase in New York at the Global Transition Dialogue, a conference coordinated by Stakeholder Forum, New Economics Foundation and the New Economics Institute and supported by the Green Economy Coalition, UNEP, UNDP, UNDESA on 17 – 18th March in time for the next round of negotiations for Rio. http://globaltransition2012.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Global-Transition-2012_March-Dialogue-Programme_NYC.doc
Finally, for more updates on all things green economy do check the latest news here: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b79e94169d64279456e2ef723&id=5ae84677d8&e=9ed47eeabf
All the best
The Green Economy Coalition
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Green Economy Coalition
سیل متداول ترین بلیه ای است که انسان ها را تحت تاثیر قرار می دهد تنها در سال 2010 جمعیتی نزدیک 178 میلیون نفر تحت تاثیر این بلیه قرار گرفتند. میزان خسارات در سال های استثنایی مانند 1998 و 2010 بالغ بر 40 میلیارد دلار بود.
با توجه به ابعاد خسارات وارده به انسان و کشورها باتک جهانی راهنمایی برای مدیریت جامع سیل در مناطق شهری تدوین نموده است. برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge. It is a global phenomenon which causes widespread devastation, economic damages and loss of human lives.
The occurrence of floods is the most frequent among all natural disasters globally. In 2010 alone, 178 million people were affected by floods. The total losses in exceptional years such as 1998 and 2010 exceeded $40 billion.
Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders.
This website aims to form a platform for practitioners for dialog around the Guide’s themes and key messages. The website summarizes the Guide's Chapters, key recommendations and provides Chapter downloads as well as additional resources related to the content of the Guide.
موسسه بین المللی تحقیقات سیاست غذایی با همکاری ابتکار خوراک آینده دولت آمریکا و ابتکار فقر و توسعه انسانی آکسفورد، ابتکاری برای اندازه گیری توانمندی زنان در بخش کشاورزی راه اندازی نموده است.
شاخص توانمندی زنان در بخش کشاورزی یا (WEAI) مبتنی بر 5 محور تصمیم در تولید کشاورزی، قدرت بر منابع تولیدی، تصمیم گیری در مورد درآمد، رهبری در جامعه و استفاده از زمان می باشد. این شاخص به صورت الگویی در 3 کشور بنگلادش، گواتمالا و اوگاندا انجام می شود.
IFPRI and Partners Launch Index to Measure Women’s Empowerment and Fight Hunger
27 February 2012: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with the US Government's Feed the Future Initiative and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, has launched an initiative to measure women's empowerment in the agriculture sector.
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) focuses on five areas: decisions over agricultural production; power over productive resources; decisions over income; leadership in the community; and time use. The index has been piloted in Bangladesh, Guatemala and Uganda to track changes in women's empowerment resulting directly from Feed the Future activities, which aim to, among other things, help countries to transform their agriculture sectors to grow enough food to sustainably feed their populations.
The index represents an advancement over traditional indicators of women's empowerment like money and education, as it explicitly identifies additional indicators of empowerment. The index will be used for performance monitoring and impact evaluation. IFPRI is a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
صندوق بین المللی توسعه کشاورزی (ایفاد) و سازمان خواروبار و کشاورزی ملل متحد (فائو) اخیراَ گزارشی در مورد نقش گروه ها و تعاونی های تولیدی در مبارزه با گرسنگی و رفع فقر منتشر کرده اند.
در گزارش فوق به 35 مورد موفق از این دست نهادها اشاره شده است. دامنه فعالیت این نهادها در زمنیه مدیریت منابع طبیعی، توزیع بذر و ادوات،دسترسی به بازار و اطلاع رسان، تمرکز زدایی، صندوق های خرد اعتباری و ... بوده است. برای دریافت این گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
FAO and IFAD Report Highlights Contribution of Cooperatives to Food Security and Poverty Reduction
1 March 2012: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have released a series of case studies that highlight the crucial role of producer groups and cooperatives in fighting hunger and poverty.
The report describes 35 cases of successful institutional innovations, which can, among other things, support small-scale producers by providing: access to, and management of, natural resources; inputs like seeds and equipment; access to markets; and improved information and communication.
The innovations include: Farmer Field Schools; a "warehouse receipt system" for obtaining short-term credit; local lending associations; introduction of new improved varieties; platforms for governments and communities to interact; and decentralization of resources. The report also stresses how women have benefited from rural organizations through access to markets, information, extension, and natural resources. The report will also be highlighted on 2 March 2012 at a side event at the 56th session of the UN Economic and Social Council's Commission on the Status of Women, which is taking place from 27 February to 9 March 2012
روی سایت CIFOR با یک سری اعداد و ارقام راجع به جنگل برخورد کردم که برایم جالب توجه بود. بهتر دیدم آن ها را هم برای علاقمندان به اشتراک بگذرام. این اعداد و ارقام و اطلاعات مربوط به وسعت جنگل ها، میزان تخریب و از بین رفتن جنگل، جمعیت انسان های وابسته به جنگل برای تامین معاش، اقتصاد وابسته به جنگل، جنگل و تغییر اقلیم می باشد. منابع ارائه این داده ها هم ذیلاً ارائه شده است.
Key facts about forests
- The total forest area of the world is about 4 billion hectares, which represents nearly 30 percent of the Earth's landmass. Approximately 56 percent of these forests are located in tropical and subtropical areas.
- Forest cover is unevenly distributed. Only seven countries possess about 60 percent of it, 25 countries around 82 percent and 170 countries share the remaining 18 percent.
- Planted forests account for approximately 3.8 percent of total forest area, or 140 million hectares.
- Net global forest loss is estimated to be about 7.3 million hectares per year for the period 2000-2005.
- This represents a decrease from the period 1990–2000, for which the average deforestation rate was 8.9 million hectares per year.
- The highest amounts of deforestation occurred in South America, with 4.3 million hectares per year, followed by Africa with 4 million hectares per year.
- More than 1 billion people rely heavily on forests for their livelihoods.3
- More than 2 billion people, a third of the world's population, use biomass fuels, mainly firewood, to cook and to heat their homes.
- Hundreds of millions of people rely on traditional medicines harvested from forests.4
- In some 60 developing countries, hunting and fishing on forested land supplies more than a fifth of protein requirements.5
- In 2003, the international trade in sawn wood, pulp, paper and boards amounted to almost US $150 billion, or just over 2 percent of world trade.
- The developed world accounted for two-thirds of this production and consumption.
- In many developing countries, forest-based enterprises provide at least one-third of all rural non-farm employment and generate income through the sale of wood products.
- The value of the trade in non-timber forest products has been estimated at US $11 billion. These products include pharmaceutical plants, mushrooms, nuts, syrups and cork.
- It is estimated that 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon are released annually due to land use change. The major portion is from tropical deforestation.
- This represents about 20 percent of current global carbon emissions, which is greater than the percentage emitted by the global transport sector with its intensive use of fossil fuels.
Sources
[1] Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) 2007. State of the World’s Forests 2007, FAO, Rome.
[2] FAO 2009. State of the World’s Forests 2009, FAO, Rome.
[3] World Bank 2004. Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy, Washington.
[4] UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2009. Indicators of Sustainable Development (1 June 2009).
[5] Mery, G., Alfaro, R., Kanninen, M. and Lobovikov, M. (eds.) 2005. Forests in the Global Balance: Changing Paradigms,
IUFRO World Series 17. International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), Helsinki.
[6] World Bank 2004. Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy, Washington D.C.
[7] IPCC 2007. Summary for Policymakers In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Sciences Basis (1 June 2009).
سری به سایت CIFOR یا مرکز تحقیقات بین المللی جنگل زدم تا ببینم در بخش جنگل چه خبر است. این مرکز یکی از 15 مرکز تحقیقات بین المللی است که زیر نظر گروه مشورتی تحقیقات کشاورزی بین المللی CGIAR فعالیت می نماید. در گردش سریع روی عناوین سایت نظرم به یک عدد خورد که مدام در حال تغییر بود بله این عدد در حال تغییر، میزان و وسعت جنگل تخریب شده از زمان ورود شما به سایت فوق می باشد.
از قدیم بر این ترتیب بوده که کشاورز باید با هزار ریسک و مخاطره تولید می کرده و با قیمتی نازل محصول تولیدی خود را یا پیش فروش کرده بوده و یا اگر پیش فروش نکرده بوده، قدرت چانه زنی نداشته و واسطه هایی بوده اند برای قیمت گذاری و خرید محصول در مزرعه و یا به عبارتی بنگاه تولیدی. چندی است تاکید شده است که باید ارتباطی بین تولید کننده و بازار برقرار شود تا درآمد بیش تری نصیب تولید کننده گردد. موسسه بین المللی توسعه محیط زیست گزارش کوتاهی در این خصوص تهیه کرده است که برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Linking smallholders to modern markets
Abbi Buxton
This paper showcases an IIED project on new business models for sustainable trading relationships. It presents results and lessons learnt from work linking small-scale farmers to modern retail markets.
خوب تغییر اقلیم است و اثرات آن بر بخش های مختلف از منابع آب و کشاورزی و بهداشت و سلامت گرفته تا شیلات و آبزی پروری. راستش تا مشکلات معمولی به چشم می آید برای ما که وقتی نمی ماند که به مسائل فرهنگی توجه کنیم اما خوب از طرف دیگر آژانس های بین المللی که مانند ما نیستند و با فکر و دیدی باز مثال موضوعات محوله خود را پیگیری می کنند. در جریان اجلاس تغییر اقلیم که در دوربان برگزار شد یونسکو یا سازمان آموزشی، علمی و فرهنگی ملل متحد از تاثیر تغیری اقلیم بر آثار فرهنگی و تاریخی سخن به میان آورد.
UNESCO Highlights Climate Change Threats to Cultural Property in Kiribati
21 January 2012: The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has reported on the threats posed by climate change to the cultural property of Kiribati.
UNESCO underscored the particular vulnerablility of Kiribati to the impacts of climate change, including coastal erosion, water salinisation and sea level rise. It further underlined that the outcome of the Durban UN Climate Change Conference "was disappointing" since parties agreed to talks on a new climate change agreement with legal force by 2015 to be ratified by 2020.
Noting the threats posed by climate change and sea level rise to stone monuments located in Nnabakana, Tabiteuea, one of the southern islands of Kiribati, UNESCO described recent steps taken towards their protection. These monuments, together with associated stories of battles that were fought among islands around the 16th century, are part of the country's tangible and intangible cultural heritage. UNESCO expressed the hope that safeguarding the Nnabakana site will help Kiribati to further advocate for the emergency of its situation, paving a way for long-term solutions, for example, by nominating the heritage for international recognition under the UNESCO Culture Conventions.
موسسه مطالعات خوشبختی، اقتصاد و جامعه (ISHES) گزارشی منتشر کرده که در آن به ارتقاء وضع ایده های اقتصادی جدید که زمانی به عنوان جایگزین مطرح شده بودند می پردازد. نام گزارش "زندگی در ورای رشد" نام دارد و در آن به چارچوب های جاری، مفاهیم و متدولوژی هایی برای ترویج تفکر اقتصادی جدید می پردازد. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Report on “Life Beyond Growth” Proposes Combining Green Economy and National Happiness Concepts
1 March 2012: The Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, and Society (ISHES) has released a report documenting the rise of new economic ideas once considered as alternatives. Titled “Life Beyond Growth,” and authored by Alan AtKisson, the report summarizes the current frameworks, concepts, and methodologies used to promote new economic thinking.
The aim of the report is to provide an update and analysis of the various alternatives to gross domestic product (GDP) being used to define and measure overall national progress. The report first reviews the rise of the “growth paradigm,” and then outlines the challenges to that paradigm, as well as the alternatives to the dominant growth paradigm. It then summarizes the frameworks, concepts and methodologies used to promote “new economic” thinking, such as green growth, green economy, sustainable development, genuine progress, genuine savings, green GDP, gross national happiness, and de-growth.
The report then highlights that there is a likelihood that a new global consensus will emerge in the next few years, consisting of an accelerating shift to green growth combined with increasing acceptance of national happiness measures. However, it concludes that the green economy concept is a better framework for achieving global wellbeing than green growth. It compares the two concepts, underlining that whereas green growth pushes universally for growth, green economy allows for growth where it is needed, but also allows for shrinkages and reductions where these are needed. The report ends by concluding that combining the green economy and national happiness concepts has the potential to provide a clear and actionable vision for sustainability at the global scale, as well as some sense of how to get there.
The report was released on 1 March 2012 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of the Limits to Growth. The report is published by the ISIS Academy, and is intended as the first edition of an annual publication that will provide updates on the status of the current debate and policy shifts related to the issues of economic growth, happiness, and well-being. [Publication: Life Beyond Growth]
در گزارش سال 2011 جوانان جهان که توسط دپارتمان اجتماعی و اقتصادی سازمان ملل تهیه شده است و جامعه هدفش افراد بین 30-15 سال می باشند اعلام شد که جوانان علاقمند به داشتن مشاغل سبز می باشند. برای مشاهده گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
World Youth Report 2011 Indicates Youth Interest in Green Jobs
6 February 2012: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has released the 2011 World Youth Report. The Report centers on the contributions from people aged 15-30, through an online consultation process regarding youth employment. Discussions revealed concern that educational systems are not preparing youth to compete for jobs, as well as young people’s interest in climate change, social equity, and innovation in green technologies and communications.
Among the emerging opportunities for youth employment, participants identified the field of environmental sustainability, or “green jobs,” and many said their ideal job would be to work in, or create, green jobs.
In the report’s introduction, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for a “new social contract of job-rich economic growth,” beginning with young people.
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ایزو 26000 هم به تازگی توسط سازمان بین المللی استاندارد ابداع شده است. منظور از ابداع این ایزو بحث مسئولیت اجتماعی است که این روزها زیاد هم باب شده است. برای دریافت فایل 68 صفحه ای آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.
ISO 26000 and global governance for sustainable development
ISO 26000 is a new international standard on social responsibility developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It offers guidance across themes including human rights, labour, environment, consumer protection, fair operating practices and community development. The brand recognition of ISO standards, ISO's geographical scope and its credibility among market actors mean that ISO 26000 has the potential to improve the practice of social responsibility in local and global markets. The reach and scale of ISO 26000's impacts has important implications for governance and public policy.
Standards - and market governance mechanisms more broadly - should be analysed not only in terms of their direct impact on environmental, social and economic factors but also in terms of their interaction with policymaking and global governance.
The evolving relationship between market governance mechanisms and public governance, both national and global, has not been adequately considered to date. But this relationship matters for sustainable development.
This paper describes the development of the ISO 26000 standard and discusses the dissonances that emerged in relation to policymaking, global governance and consequently sustainable development. The paper suggests a number of steps that could be taken to maximise the positive contributions of ISO 26000 to global governance for sustainable development and offers lessons for the analysis of other market governance mechanisms.
Call for new indicators of sustainable development
9 February 2012 | EN
[NEW DELHI] The world must develop different indicators on sustainable development that are not biased against developing countries, a major conference has heard.
Bharrat Jagdeo, former president of Guyana, said current assessments and rankings use indicators such as access to potable water and sanitation, or malaria levels, which automatically rank developed countries higher.
He was speaking at the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India last week (2–4 February), organised by The Energy Resources Institute (TERI).
The conference was attended by UN officials, former and current heads of state, ministers, government officials and representatives from the private sector, and comes in the run-up to the major UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) this June.
Last year, at regional workshops organised in preparation for the Rio+20 summit, scientific communities from Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean suggested a new development index should take into account environmental, social and economic indicators.
These workshops' synthesis report, published by the International Council for Science and UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) last month (27 January), called on Rio+20 to construct an "appropriate sustainable development index that will become the true measure of development" as "a matter of high priority".
Meanwhile, the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability also called for a new global sustainable development outlook that "would assess the state of key economic, social and environmental indicators and their interlinkages, making use of cutting-edge knowledge across all relevant sectors, in close cooperation with the global scientific community", in their report, published last month (30 January).
And the draft Rio+20 outcome document also supports creating a set of indicators to measure progress in sustainable development.
Now, politicians and ministers attending last week's New Delhi conference have started to map out how new indicators might work.
Ashok Khosla, founder and chairman of Development Alternatives, a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, told SciDev.Net that new indicators should be based on scientific evidence and should consider both global and local interests.
They should also include social objectives, ecosystems health and conservation issues, as well as peoples' well-being, he said.
"What you cannot measure, you cannot manage," he added.
Speakers also called for better-harmonised development indicators across countries. For example, key indicators, such as biodiversity loss, may be measured differently in different countries, meaning results are not comparable internationally, said Timothy Gregorie, professor of forest management at Yale University, United States.
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فرسایش خاک و مدیریت راکتورهای اتمی از موضوعات مهم سبز می باشند. هدر رفت خاک و افزایش تعداد نیروگاه های هسته ای که به پایان عمر خود رسیده اند برخی از مباحث زیست محیطی عمده ای هستند که در کتاب سال سازمان ملل (یونپ) به آن ها اشاره شده است.
SOIL EROSION AND NUCLEAR REACTOR MANAGEMENT EMERGING AS KEY GREEN ISSUES – UN
New York, Feb 13 2012 12:05PM
The depletion of soil and the growing number of end-of-life nuclear power reactors are some of the most pressing environmental issues, according to a United Nations yearbook launched today that compiles the most important events and developments of the year.
The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) Year Book 2012 depicts the status of key environmental indicators and highlights the benefits of soil carbon and decommissioning nuclear power plants.
“The yearbook spotlights two emerging issues that underline the challenges, but also the choices, nations need to consider to deliver a sustainable 21st century – urgently improved management of world’s soils and the decommissioning of nuclear power reactors,” said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
“Superficially they may seem separate and unconnected issues, but both go to the heart of several fundamental questions: how will the world feed and fuel itself while combating climate change and handling hazardous wastes?”
<"http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2667&ArticleID=9027&l=en">According to UNEP, 24 per cent of the global land area has declined in productivity over the past 25 years due to unsustainable land-use. The yearbook points to various assessments indicating that some kinds of intensive agriculture are triggering soil erosion at rates that are about 100 times greater than the rates at which nature can form soil.
The yearbook also warns that without changes in the way land is managed, there will be grave losses in forests, peatlands and grasslands, as well as in biodiversity. In addition, land erosion will also affect climate change as huge amounts of carbon stored in the soil in the form of organic matter could be released in the atmosphere, aggravating global warming.
“The thin skin of soil on the Earth’s surface is often one of those forgotten ecosystems but it is among the most important to the future survival of humanity. The yearbook cites many options for improved, sustainable management such as no-till policies to ones that can assist in productive agriculture without draining peatlands,” said Mr Steiner.
The yearbook, launched on the eve of the 12th special session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, also highlights the importance of decommissioning the growing numbers of nuclear reactors that have reached the end of their original design lives.
As of last month, 138 civilian nuclear power reactors had been shut down in 19 countries, including 28 in the United States, 27 in the United Kingdom, 27 in Germany, 12 in France, nine in Japan and five in Russia. However, decommissioning has only been completed for 17 of them.
Mr. Steiner stated that the yearbook provides information about the options that countries have when making energy choices today regarding radioactive materials, safety procedures and financial implications. For example, the cost of decommissioning varies greatly depending on the reactor type and size, its location, the proximity and availability of waste disposal facilities and the condition of both the reactor and the site at the time of decommissioning.
چندی است که نهضتی با نام Greening the Blue راه افتاده است که در خصوص کاهش آلودگی های محیط زیست فعالیت دارد. در این راستا یکی از موارد هدف این نهضت بطری های آب می باشد. در این نهضت سعی شده است مردم ترغیب شوند برای نوشیدن آب در ادارات از آب خوری استفاده نمایند به جای بطری. 

Reducing plastic waste
There are many problems associated with plastic waste. For example 6 million tonnes of waste plastic ends up in rivers and oceans each year. Shocked? We were, but we were also reassured to hear that UN staff are aware of the problem and are keen to take action.
Over 250 votes have been cast in Greening the Blue’s latest on-line poll and nearly 80% of those who took part are in favour of bottled water being banned from staff canteens. If you’d like to find out more about reducing plastic waste in your office, take a look at some of our case studies:
• IFAD distributed eco-friendly water bottles to all their staff. Proceeds from the water bottles were then used to finance water projects in Africa and Asia.
• UNECE tested the quality of drinking water in the Palais des Nations, then launched an awareness initiative to increase the use of tap water for drinking.
• FAO wowed staff with an art installation consisting of 70 plastic bags suspended from the ceiling containing the amount of plastic bottles disposed of by FAO staff per day. Since then, 50 water fountains have been installed to provide refrigerated drinking water (still and sparkling) throughout its Rome headquarters.
روز 24 مارس 2012 را روز پاک سازی جهان نام گذاری کرده اند که 4 فروردین 1391 هیجدهمین مراسم خود را برگزار می نماید که با حمایت و هماهنگی برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد (یونپ) برگزار می شود. در سال جاری جمعیتی حدود 35 میلیون نفر از 120 کشور جهان در این اقدام مشارکت خواهند داشت. این اقدام بزرگ ترین اقدام مردم نهاد زیست محیطی است که انجام می شود.
Clean Up the World 24 March 2012
Clean Up the World is a community based environmental campaign that inspires and empowers communities from every corner of the globe to clean up and conserve their environment.
Now in its 18th year and held in conjunction with UNEP, the campaign mobilises an estimated 35 million volunteers from 120 countries annually, making it one of the largest community-based environmental campaigns in the world.
The campaign brings together businesses, community groups, schools, governments and individuals in a range of activities and programs that positively improve local environments.
هر از چند گاهی به قسمت آمار وبلاگ و بازدیدها مراجعه می کنم تا ببینم بازدیدکنندگان در جستجوی چه مطلبی بوده اند که سر از این وبلاگ در آورده اند. امروز هم بعد از چندی به قسمت مورد نظر رفتم و دیدم که چند موردی بوده که به دنبال " مراتع جهان" و "گیاهان مرتعی آفریقا" بوده اند.
خوب بنابراین ترغیب شدم در نوشتاری به این مقوله بپردازم. سازمان خواربار و کشاورزی ملل متحد در قالب برنامه ای (Country Pasture Profile) اقدام به گردآوری گزارشات مرتع و چراگاه کشورهای مختلف نموده است که در حال حاضر گزارش 100 کشور جهان گردآوری شده است. گزارش کشور ایران را هم خودم سال ها پیش تهیه کردم که به نظرم باید یک بازنگری روی آن داشته باشم علی ایحال برای مشاهده این گزارشات اینجا را کلیک کنید.
چندی بود که فرامش کرده بودم ارومیه ای هم بوده و خواهد خشکید(!) و بارش های هر چند خوب هم علاجی برای خشک شدن آن نیست.
امروز در لابه لای انبوه ایمیل های دریافتی ایمیلی هم از برنامه محیط زیست ملل دریافت کردم که داغ خشک شدن دریاچه ارومیه را تازه کرد. در این گزارش 11 صفحه ای تصاویری از وضعیت دریاچه در یک دوره 50 ساله هم ارائه شده است. برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Thematic Focus: Climate Change, Resource Efficiency, Ecosystem Management, and Environmental Governance
Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East. The lake's surface area has been estimated to have been as large as 6 100 km² but since 1995 it has generally been declining (9) and was estimated from satellite data to be only 2 366 km² in August of 2011. Scientists have warned that continued decline would lead to increased salinity, collapse of the lake's food chain and ecosystem, loss of wetland habitat, wind blown "salt-storms," alteration of local climate and serious negative impacts on local agriculture and livelihoods as well as regional health.
UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) February bulletin provides more details on the drying of the lake and its environmental consequences. Read online at http://na.unep.net/geas/getUNEPPageWithArticleIDScript.php?article_id=79
برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد در گزارشی تحت عنوان UNEP Foresight Process on
Emerging Environmental Issues بیست و یک موضوع برای قرن بیست و یکم را بیان نموده است. برای دریافت گزارش 60 صفحه ای فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Issue 001 Aligning Governance to the Challenges of Global Sustainability
Issue 002 Transforming Human Capabilities for the 21st Century: Meeting Global Environmental Challenges
and Moving Towards a Green Economy
Issue 003 Broken Bridges: Reconnecting Science and Policy
Issue 004 Social Tipping Points? Catalyzing Rapid and Transformative Changes in Human Behaviour towards
the Environment
Issue 005 New Concepts for Coping with Creeping Changes and Imminent Thresholds
Issue 006 Coping with Migration Caused by New Aspects of Environmental Change
Food, Biodiversity and Land Issues
Issue 007 New Challenges for Ensuring Food Safety and Food Security for 9 Billion People
Issue 008 Beyond Conservation: Integrating Biodiversity across the Environmental and Economic Agendas
Issue 009 Boosting Urban Sustainability and Resilience
Issue 010 The New Rush for Land: Responding to New National and International Pressures
Freshwaters and Marine Issues
Issue 011 New Insights on Water-Land Interactions: Shift in the Management Paradigm?
Issue 012 Shortcutting the Degradation of Inland Waters in Developing Countries
Issue 013 Potential Collapse of Oceanic Systems Requires Integrated Ocean Governance
Issue 014 Coastal Ecosystems: Addressing Increasing Pressures with Adaptive Governance
Climate Change Issues
Issue 015 New Challenges for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation:
Managing the Unintended Consequences
Issue 016 Acting on the Signal of Climate Change in the Changing Frequency of Extreme Events
Issue 017 Managing the Impacts of Glacier Retreat
Energy, Technology, and Waste Issues
Issue 018 Accelerating the Implementation of Environmentally-Friendly Renewable Energy Systems
Issue 019 Greater Risk than Necessary? The Need for a New Approach for Minimizing
Risks of Novel Technologies and Chemicals
Issue 020 Changing the Face of Waste: Solving the Impending Scarcity of Strategic Minerals and
Avoiding Electronic Waste
Issue 021 The Environmental Consequences of Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors
در سومین نشست وزرای جنبش عدم تعهد بر نقش زنان در رسیدن به اهداف توسعه هزاره و موفقیت کنفرانس توسعه پایدار تاکید نمودند.
NAM Ministerial Highlights Role of Women’s
Empowerment for Rio+20′s Success
14 February 2012: In an address to the third Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on the Advancement of Women, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro stressed that unleashing women’s potential is a necessary step in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their empowerment is essential for the success of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
Calling on countries to end discriminatory laws, Migiro also pointed to progress made by UN Women to advance women’s issues. The meeting adopted the Doha Declaration and Programme of Action, according to which participating countries commit themselves to take a series of actions to empower women. They renewed their commitment to ensure that the role of women is taken into account in achieving sustainable development; encouraged member States to ensure the effective participation of women in the upcoming Rio+20; and highlighted that the eradication of the feminization of poverty is an indispensable requirement for achieving sustainable development. The third Ministerial Meeting of the NAM took place from 12-14 February 2012, in Doha, Qatar.
ایفاد یا صندوق بین المللی توسعه کشاورزی و ایکاردا یا مرکز بین المللی تحقیقات کشاورزی دیم به طور مشترک از راه اندازی شبکه منطقه ای اطلاعات کشاورزی حمایت می نمایند. در روزهای 10-9 مارس 2012 افتتاحیه این شبکه در مقر ایکاردا در حلب برگزار شد.
IFAD and ICARDA finance Regional Agricultural Information Network
NEN, in collaboration with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) co‑organized and supported a two-day inception workshop on the Regional Agricultural Information Network project for the West Asia and North Africa Region (WANA‑RAIN) that was held at ICARDA’s headquarters in Aleppo, Syria on 9-10 March 2011.
The main goal of the project is to develop and deploy a fully integrated and sustainable information and knowledge management platform that is capable of supporting agricultural research and development activities in the NEN region.
Session one on the first day was dedicated to setting out objectives, looking at an overview of an ICARDA twinning project and understanding the current state of information and knowledge management. The second session was given over to the sharing of IFAD experiences in existing information knowledge management systems in United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Egypt.
The second day was used to analyse national experiences and discuss future plans and approaches. The workshop wrapped up with the formation of an action plan, the election of a steering committee and the drawing of conclusions and recommendations for future activities.
سازمان ملل متحد سال 2012 را سال تعاونی ها نامیده است و از تعاونی به عنوان ابزاری سازمانی برای گسترش حقوق بشر و برابری در سطح جهان نام می برد. در سطح 96 کشور جهان حدود 1 میلیارد نفر به عضویت شبکه تعاونی درآمده اند. شما نیز می توانید به عضویت این شبکه در بیائید.
Membership in Co-operative Businesses Reaches 1 Billion
The United Nations has designated 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, providing a great opportunity to raise the profile of an important organizational tool for spreading human rights and equality worldwide. Membership in co-operative businesses has grown to 1 billion people across 96 countries, according to new research published in Worldwatch's Vital Signs Online publication. Co-operatives, or co-ops, are characterized by democratic ownership and governance and offer a more equitable alternative to the shareholder model of business ownership.
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به هر حال هر از چند گاهی خشکسالی با شدت های خفیف تا بسیار شدید اتفاق می افتد که خشکسالی سال 2011 در شاخ آفریقا بسیار شدید بود و به قحطی انجامید. حالا سازمان ملل از هم اکنون در فکر خشکسالی بعدی است. به راستی این همه سیستم هشدار اولیه خشکسالی و سیستم هشدار قحطی که از دهه 1970 راه اندازی شده اند کی عملیاتی خواهند شد؟؟
UN-BACKED FORUM TO DISCUSS EARLY ACTION AHEAD OF NEXT DROUGHT IN HORN OF AFRICA
New York, Feb 24 2012 4:05PM
Government representatives, climatologists, agricultural experts, disaster risk managers and others will gather in Rwanda next week to discuss early action in case of a possible third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of Africa.
“The meeting is overshadowed by the world’s failure to act on previous warnings of drought in the region which resulted in thousands of deaths from famine, particularly in Somalia,” stated a <"http://www.unisdr.org/archive/25321">news release issued by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, known as UNISDR.
The office is supporting the three-day Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum, which begins in Kigali on Monday, along with the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The meeting, hosted by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and IGAD’s Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), will discuss the prospects for the March-to-May rainy season and consider measures to ensure that early warning leads to early action in the event of a failure of the rains.
“Two consecutive years of drought in the Horn of Africa have resulted in catastrophe for many vulnerable communities. A failure of the rains in the coming months will leave them with little coping capacity to survive,” said Pedro Basabe, head of the UNISDR Africa office.
“This year, more than ever, it is important that climate and food security experts work closely with disaster managers to monitor any serious deterioration in the situation,” he added.
Towards the end of last year, a total of 13.3 million people needed assistance in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti as a result of what aid agencies said was the worst drought in the region in six decades.
During the forum, ICPAC and UNISDR will hold joint training sessions to help strengthen the existing cooperation between climate scientists and disaster risk managers to advance information sharing for disaster risk reduction in the region.
در چهارمین نشست مجمع کشاورزان، نمایندگان کشاورزان خرده پا، دامداران و ماهیگیران بر ارتباط بین کاهش فقر و ناامنی غذایی و ارتقا توسعه پایدار کشاورزی تاکید نمودند.
در این نشست که در روزهای 21-20 فوریه 2012 در مقر ایفاد در شهر رم برگزار شد تاکید شد که کشاورزان ساکن در کشورهای در حال توسعه اولین گروهی می باشند که تحت تاثیر تغییر اقلیم و تخریب منابع طبیعی قرار می گیرند. شرکت کنندگان بر ضرورت همکاری در مقابله با چالش جهانی ناامنی غذایی و تغییر اقلیم توافق نمودند. آن ها اذعان کردند که ایفاد ( صندوق بین المللی توسعه کشاورزی) نقش مهمی در تامین نیازهای کشاورزان خرده پا، دامداران و ماهیگیران در سطح بین المللی دارد.
Fourth Farmers’ Forum Stresses Need to Address Food Insecurity and Climate
21 February 2012: At the Fourth Meeting of the Farmers' Forum, representatives of smallholders, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers focused on the links between poverty reduction and food insecurity and improving sustainable agricultural development.
The meeting, which was held from 20-21 February 2012 in Rome, Italy, highlighted that farmers in developing countries are the first to feel the impacts of climate change and degradation of natural resources. Participants therefore agreed on the need to jointly address the global challenges of food insecurity and climate change, and underlined that the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has an important role of ensuring that the needs of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and fishers are included on the international agenda.
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ESCAP, UNEP and ADB Release Asia-Pacific Green Growth Report
16 February 2012: The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have released a report asserting that the challenges of resource constraints in the Asia-Pacific region are more serious than anywhere else, and proposing strategies for changing economic incentives to promote a green economy. The report was prepared as part of preparations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
The report, titled “Green Growth, Resources and Resilience: Environmental Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific," stresses the need to “recalibrate the economy” to bring it into closer alignment with sustainable development. It underscores the need for economic incentives to promote investments in resource efficiency and natural resource protection, and calls for governance structures to be more adaptive and inclusive.
The report consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 describes the evolving policy landscape in which rising demand for resources, together with increasingly apparent impacts from climate change, are bringing together economic, social and environmental crises. It warns that if current trends continue, the carbon dioxde emissions of the region are likely to more than triple by 2050. Chapter 2 includes a detailed examination of resource use and efficiency trends. Chapter 3 outlines policy actions for bringing economic growth strategies into closer alignment with the objectives of sustainable development. Chapter 4 describes how new governance challenges can be addressed internationally, regionally, nationally and locally. Chapter 5 includes strategies to promote increased resilience, enabling societies and economies to resist and adapt to shocks. The sixth and final chapter comments on the implications of the report for the two themes of Rio+20, “green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication” and “the institutional framework for sustainable development.”
جایزه سیاره آبی جایزه ای است زیست محیطی که از سال 1992 و همزمان با برگزاری اجلاس سران زمین در ریو دو ژانیرو افتتاح شده است. لازم به ذکر است که این جایزه به افراد و یا سازمان هایی اهداء می شود که کار ارزشمندی در زمینه تحقیقات علمی و کاربردی در رابطه با محیط زیست انجام داده اند. جالب توجه آن که سیاره آبی را اول بار یوری گاگارین وقتی از فضا به زمین نگاه کرد به زمین اطلاق نمود. برنگان جایزه سیاره آبی توصیه هایی برای آینده پایدار ارائه داده اند. بیست کارشناس و دانشمند توسعه پایدار مقاله ای در زمینه توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست تهیه نموده اند که در آن علل توسعه ناپایدار را تشریح می کنند و به راهکارهای پرداختن به آن ها اشاره می نمایند. کارشناسان و دانشمندان تهیه کننده این گزارش جملگی برندگان سابق جایزه سیاره آبی می باشند.
گزارش فوق چالش های زیست محیطی و توسعه نام دارد که برای دریافت فایل آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Blue Planet Prize Laureates Make Recommendations for a Sustainable Future
20 February 2012: A group of 20 scientists and sustainable development experts have produced a paper on environment and development, highlighting causes of unsustainable development and outlining actions that can be taken to address them. The paper was produced in preparation for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
The scientists and experts are past winners of the Blue Planet Prize, an award presented to individuals or organizations that have made outstanding achievements in scientific research and its application, that have helped provide solutions to global environmental problems.
The paper, titled “Environmental and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act,” was presented on 20 February 2012, to the 12th Special Session of the Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-12/GMEF) of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), held in Nairobi, Kenya from 20-22 February 2012.
The paper synthesizes key messages from individual papers written by the Blue Planet Laureates. In the joint paper, the laureates outline their “dream” of a world without poverty, and one that is equitable, respects human rights, and is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. Underlining that this dream is achievable, they say the current global development model is unsustainable and will not help realize this dream. The paper focuses on the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequity, and outlines some of the causes of these problems, such as: overpopulation; overconsumption by the rich; gross inequalities; use of environmentally malign technologies; uncontrolled economic growth; fossil fuel-dependent energy systems; and rapid loss of biodiversity. It concludes that, “In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.”
The laureates also suggest some solutions, including addressing population growth through education, empowerment of women, healthcare of children and the elderly, and making modern contraception accessible to all. The paper calls for the “triple interdependence” of economic, social and environmental factors to be integrated into decision-making by the public and private sectors in order to achieve a more sustainable world, and emphasizes the need for economic growth "within the constraints of social and environmental sustainability."
The laureates further recommend: elimination of environmentally damaging subsidies in areas such as energy, transportation and agriculture; transition to a low-carbon economy through technological evolution in energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon capture and storage; and effective change in governance. The statement concludes by highlighting the need to increase investments in education, research and assessments of knowledge, and stressing that “the time to act at scale is now” to limit climate change and biodiversity loss.
روز 17 فوریه یعنی درست 4 ماه پیش از برگزاری روز جهانی مقابله با بیابان زایی در 17 ژوئن مصادف با 27 خرداد دبیرخانه کنوانسیون شعار امسال را اعلام نمود
" Healthy soil sustains your life: LET’S GO LAND-DEGRADATION NEUTRAL"
که ترجمه آن پایداری زندگی شما در گرو خاک سالم است: بیائید تخریب سرزمین را به حد صفر برسانیم.
2012 World Day to Combat Desertification to Focus on Land Degradation Neutrality
17 February 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has announced the theme for the 2012 celebration of World Day to Combat Desertification. The annual event, which is celebrated on 17 June, will focus on "Healthy soil sustains your life: LET’S GO LAND-DEGRADATION NEUTRAL."
In announcing the selection of the theme, the UNCCD Secretariat noted that, at the September 2012 UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Meeting on "Addressing desertification, land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication," many speakers suggested that the commitment to build a land-degradation neutral world should be an outcome from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). Also during this meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for sustainable land-use to become "a cornerstone of the green economy for poverty eradication and sustainable development."
The UNCCD Secretariat notes that "zero-net land degradation (ZNLD) can be achieved when, over a given period of time, non-degraded land remains healthy, and already degraded-land is restored," and has indicated that it will provide an analysis of the possible implications and impacts of this target for policy-makers.
In 2012, World Day to Combat Desertification falls three days before the start of UNCSD. The global observance is planned to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
به گزارش پایگاه اطلاع رسانی سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست (پام)، در دوازدهمین اجلاس شورای حکام یونپ، مهندس محمدی زاده، معاون رئیس جمهور و رئیس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست ، دوم اسفندماه در دومین روز اجلاس در نایروبی ، سخنرانی در خصوص نشست "اقتصاد سبز" نمود.
رییس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست در این نشست گفت: همزمانی چهلمین سال تأسیس یونپ و ورود به دهه جدیدی از توسعه پایدار، فرصتی را در تجدید و بررسی شرایط پیشین و کنونی محیط زیست جهان و استفاده از تجربیات چندین ساله در ورود به برنامه های آتی فراهم آورده است.
وی افزود: بی شک، امروزه، توسعه پایدار یک مفهوم عامه توافق شده است که بهبود وضعیت منابع اقتصادی، اجتماعی و زیست محیطی را دنبال می نماید. بنابراین رخدادهای نامتعارف و بعضاً نامتعادل در اقصی نقاط جهان، حکایت از عدم پیروی از الگویی کارآمد از اصول توسعه پایدار در جامعه جهانی دارد.
معاون رییس جمهور با اشاره به بحرانهای اقتصادی و زیست محیطی فزاینده ای در سالهای اخیر گفت: این موضوع نشانی دیگر از ناکارآمدی الگوی تجربه شده و عدم پایداری اقتصادی در امور پایه و زیربنایی در سطح اجرا، پس از سیاستگذاری می باشد.
محمد جواد محمدی زاده در ادامه اظهار داشت: خوشبختانه در چندسال اخیر حفاظت از محیط زیست چنان جایگاه خود را در برنامه های کلان اقتصادی و اجتماعی در عرصه بین الملل باز نموده که "اقتصاد سبز"، بعنوان یکی از اصلی ترین محورهای توسعه پایدار در نشستهای سازمان ملل مورد توجه قرار گرفته و تلاش خواهد نمود تا به دولت ها در سازگار نمودن اقتصاد خود با الزامات زیست محیطی کمک نماید.
رییس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست یاد آور شد: توجه به اقتصاد اکوسیستمی، کارآیی اکولوژیکی و ارزش کالاها و خدمات اکوسیستمی در نظام برنامه ریزی توسعه ای کشورها ، نیازمند به یکپارچگی و تلفیق سیاستهای اقتصادی با اصول حفاظت از محیط زیست است.
وی تاکید کرد: از این رو، این امر به شدت نیازمند تغییر نگرش برنامه ریزان و تصمیم گیران ملی و بین المللی می باشد.
محمدی زاده مشکل اصلی مبحث اقتصاد سبز را ابهامات شدید و گسترده پیرامونی آن دانست و اظهار داشت:در واقع به نظر می رسد بیش از دانسته ها، ما در فضای ندانسته های این مفهوم به سر می بریم.
وی افزود: علیرغم عدم وجود تعریف واحدی از اقتصاد سبز و ملزومات آن و چگونگی امکان بهره دهی و یا بهره گیری از این مبحث، در جمهوری اسلامی ایران اولین ماده قانونی در این خصوص به تصویب نهادهای قانونگذاری رسیده که به طور مشخص به ضرورت لحاظ نمودن ارزش های اقتصادی منابع زیست محیطی و هزینه های ناشی از آلودگی و تخریب محیط زیست در طرح های توسعه ای کشور اشاره می نماید که مبتنی بر قانون در نهایت تصحیح حساب های ملی و قراردادن محیط زیست بعنوان مبنایی برای برآورد واقعی رشد اقتصادی کشور موجب شود.
رییس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست یکی از پایه ای ترین اجزای اقتصاد سبز را تعریف مشخصی از مالکیت و یا سرمایه داری از منظر ارزش های اعتقادی دانست و خاطر نشان کرد: از منظر اسلام، "سرمایه دار کسی است که تمام امکانات و وسع و پول و سرمایه خود را به کار می بندد تا ایجاد تولید پاکیزه و طیب و اشتغال در جامعه داشته باشد، اما مصرف او در حد انسان عادی، البته کمی بالاتر ، اما نه در حد مصرف تجمل آمیز و زندگی مستکبرانه و فخر فروشانه باشد."
محمدی زاده دیگر موانع بر سر راه دستیابی به توسعه پایدار و تقلیل جدی فقر را در اختیار نداشتن یک الگوی کارآمد از مفهوم توسعه برشمرد و گفت: یقیناً، این مفهوم بایستی درخور مقیاس منطقه ای تبیین گردد.
رییس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست تصریح کرد: تببین الگوی توسعه اسلامی- ایرانی با داشتن مولفه های اجتماعی ، اقتصادی، فرهنگی ، امنیتی و سیاسی در کشورم تدوین گردیده که ایجاد جامعه ای بهره مند از محیط زیست مطلوب با حفظ کرامت وحقوق انسانی ، تأمین عدالت و امکان استفاده آحاد جامعه از فرصتها، کاهش فقر و نابرابری در مناطق روستایی و ارزیابی فرآیندهای تدوین و الگوهای برنامه های توسعه ای کشور بر گرفته از طرح های آمایش سرزمین مبتنی بر عدالت، از مهمترین برنامه های تبیین این الگو می باشد.
وی ادامه داد: به نظرم این الگو، الگویی بسیار فراشمول و قابل قبول جامعه جهانی بتواند قرار گیرد.
دبیرخانه چهارچوب کنوانسیون تغییر اقلیم یک پایگاه رادیویی برای ارتقا’ سطح آگاهی در مورد مکانیزم توسعه پاک پروتکل کیوتو در سطح قاره آفریقا راه اندازی نمود. در این پایگاه تجارب مناطق مختلف از راه اندازی مکانیزم توسعه پاک گردآوری و در اختیار عموم قرار گرفته است. برای مشاهده سایت فوق اینجا را کلیک نمائید.
The UNFCCC secretariat is pleased to announce the launch of a radio club for Africa aimed at raising awareness about the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the continent.
Radio journalists and radio stations in Africa are now invited to join the CDM Radio Club for Africa. Radio journalists will be given the chance to promote their work and enter a contest to win various prizes, including a possible free trip to the UN climate change conference. Radio stations can select from a wide variety of broadcast-ready radio packages distributed for free.
To learn more about the CDM Radio Club for Africa please visit the following link:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/about/multimedia/africanradioclub/
در اقدامی مشترک میان فائو و موسسه بین المللی بهبسازی روستایی طرحی محلی برای مدیریت جامع و مردم محور خشکسالی تدوین شده است که این طرح مبتنی بر تلفیق کاهش ریسک، مدیریت جامع حوزه آبخیز و سیستم هشدار اولیه مردم محور می باشد که با اجرای آن امنیت غذایی نیز ارتقاء می یابد. کاراموجا که این طرح در آن جا اجرا خواهد شد منطقه ای است واقع در شمال شرقی اوگاندا که خشکسالی های مکرر و مداوم منطقه را تهدید می کند و فقط یک فصل زراعی دارد.
Drought Preparedness in Karamoja, Uganda
In a joint effort with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO), IIRR has commenced the integration of Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Integrated Community Managed Watershed, and Community Based Early Warning System activities to promote food security in dry land Karamoja. The Karamoja region is located in northeastern Uganda and is characterized by prolonged dry spells and only one farming season.
به نقل از سایت سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست:
در نشست بررسی تکامل خط مشی جهانی محیط زیست عنوان شد:چهل سال تلاش، برای حفظ محیط زیست جهانیدر دوازدهمین نشست ویژه شورای حکام یونپ در نایروبی، نشستی به منظور بررسی تکامل خط مشی جهانی محیط زیست برگزار شد.
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به گزارش پایگاه اطلاع رسانی سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست، در بعد از ظهر اولین روز شورای حکام یونپ با حضور سه مدیر اجرایی سابق برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد به همراه مدیر حال حاضر یونپ ،نشستی به منظور بررسی تکامل خط مشی جهانی محیط زیست برگزار شد.
این نشست با حضور وزیران حاضر در دوازدهمین نشست ویژه شورای حکام یونپ در مقر برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد در نایروبی تشکیل و روند پیشرفت جهانی از سال 1972 تا 2012 ، با گذشت 40 سال، مورد بررسی قرار گرفت، همچنین چالشهای فراروی توسعه پایدار توسط چهار مدیر اجرایی یونپ بر شمرده شد.
گفتنی است در این نشست آقای مصطفی تولبا، خانم الیزابت دودزول، آقای کلاوس توپفر و آقای آخیم اشتاینر شرکت داشتند . نکته مهمی که توسط آقای کلاوس توپفر مورد تأکید قرار گرفت این بود که دیگر وقت آن است که به جای اهداف توسعه هزاره، به دنبال اهداف توسعه پایدار باشیم. همچنین آقای تولبا نیز تأکید کرد یونپ بعنوان آژانس تخصصی سازمان ملل متحد می تواند همچنان به فعالیت مفید خود با بالابردن توان خود ادامه دهد.
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تشکیل گروه کارشناسی برای ارزیابی داده های بخشی اثرات اقتصادی - اجتماعی تغییر اقلیم در منطقه کارائیب. این گروه وظیفه ارزیابی داده های فوق در 16 کشور را بر عهده دارد. در اولین گام داده های بخش آب، انرژی، سلامت و گردشگری کشورهای 16 گانه مشارکت کننده در برنامه ارزیابی خواهند شد. کشورها هم عبارتند از:
Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Expert Group Assesses Sectoral Data on Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in the Caribbean
3 February 2012: The subregional headquarters for the Caribbean of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently convened an expert group to discuss the status of regional efforts to develop economic frameworks to assess the economic and social impacts of climate change in the Caribbean in key sectors.
The expert group, which met in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 2-3 February 2012, assessed progress made in the data gathering process, the successes as well as the challenges encountered, with a view to facilitating discussion on measures that may be adopted to overcome these challenges and fill key data gaps. The state of data for the agricultural and coastal/marine sectors was examined for 16 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The group also examined preliminary data for the energy, health, water and tourism sectors in participating countries.
The next expert group meeting, tentatively scheduled for November 2012, will hold a substantive discussion of probable social and economic impacts based on improved data from the 16 countries.
ECLAC's subregional headquarters, with funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and working in cooperation with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), has pursued, since 2008, projects to help Caribbean Governments assess the economic impacts of climate change on their countries. [IISD RS Sources]
هفت کشور دیگر به برنامه REDD پیوستند. این کشورها عبارتند از بنین، کامرون، شیلی، غنا، میانمار، سودان جنوبی و سورینام. با احتساب کشورهای فوق تعداد کشورهای متعاهد به این برنامه به 42 کشور رسید. شایان ذکر است که کشورهای عضو این برنامه از کمک های فنی و مالی برای تحقق اهداف این برنامه بهره مند خواهند شد
Seven New Countries Join UN-REDD Programme
10 February 2012: Benin, Cameroon, Chile, Ghana, Myanmar, South Sudan and Suriname have joined the UN-REDD Programme as partners and official observers to the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board.
The Programme now has 42 partner countries globally. Partner countries receive targeted support from UN-REDD's Global Programme and are able to participate in the knowledge sharing facilitated by the Programme's online community of practice. Partner countries may also be invited to submit a request to receive funding for a National Programme in the future.
گزارش جدید ابتکار مشترک برنامه های عمران و محیط زیست ملل متحد در زمینه رابطه فقر و محیط زیست با عنوان " به جریان انداختن راه حل های برگرفته از اکوسیستم محلی برای چالش های فقر - محیط زیست منتشر شد.
The UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative in cooperation with the World Resources Institute releases a new Primer on "Enabling Local Successes: A Primer on Mainstreaming Local Ecosystem-based Solutions to Poverty-Environment Challenges".
We are pleased to draw your attention to a new Primer entitled “Enabling Local Successes: A Primer on Mainstreaming Local Ecosystem-based Solutions to Poverty-Environment Challenges".The Primer is a joint cooperation of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative and the World Resources Institute.
This primer assembles current knowledge and illustrative case materials on the benefits of and enabling conditions for local ecosystem-based initiatives. It documents how nature-focused activities and enterprises originated and executed by local actors, can sustain ecosystems and improve the livelihoods and well-being of the rural poor. The primer is designed to help development practitioners and others engaged in the mainstreaming challenge communicate to policy makers the positive poverty and environmental outcomes that can result at the local level when environmental mainstreaming efforts at the national and sectoral levels succeed.
In more detail, the Primer:
- describes key features of local ecosystem-based initiatives;
- discusses economic, social and environmental benefits as well as resilience and adaptation benefits
- outlines enabling conditions for local ecosystem-based solutions (enforceable resource rights; market access and favorable regulatory environment; adequate and dependable finance; participatory, accountable and transparent governance; local capacity; appropriate support services; and networks and linkages);
- provides guidance on identifying supportive policy, legal and regulatory frameworks; how to expand access to domestic and external sources of finance; how to facilitate access to support services; how to improve learning and knowledge exchange; and how to ensure results-based monitoring and evaluation;
- introduces a programmatic approach to scaling up impact
The Primer can be accessed at:http://www.unpei.org/knowledge-resources/publications.html
بیمه در چشم اندازهای در حال تغییر - آموزه های محلی برای دماغه جنوبی آفریقای جنوبی.
در این گزارش 16 صفحه ای از روند افزایشی بلایای طبیعی در دهه های اخیر و لزوم توجه به ایجاد نوعی بیمه و امنیت در برابر تهدیدها سخن به میان آمده است. توجه به تغییر ریسک چشم اندازها در سطح جهان امری ضروری است. UNEP FI تهیه گزارشی در مورد روند مخاطرات و ریسک های در حال ظهور را مورد حمایت مالی قرار داده است. برای داونلود گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Insurance in a Changing Risk Landscape - Local lessons from the Southern Cape of South Africa
Taking heed of the changing risk landscape across the world, UNEP FI supported the launch of a report on the emerging threats and opportunities the trend represents for South African insurers.
The study, released in November, uses the concrete example of South Africa's Southern Cape Province, to offer a sanpshot of the challenges borne out of a quickly evolving local risk horizon.
Among risk factors flagged by the report are an increased human development and growing exposure of infrastructure; changes in weather patterns as a result of climate change; and the deterioration and disappearance of regulating ecosystems.
This report also initiates a dialogue on how insurers should collaborate with governments, clients and stakeholders in more systematically addressing the drivers of risk in an integrated manner.
تسهیلات محیط زیست جهانی نقشه ارزیابی سالانه پایش جدیدی را راه اندازی می کند. این نقشه تحت وب می باشد و در چهل و یکمین نشست شواری تسهیلات محیط زیست جهانی ارائه شد و مورد توجه اعضاء شورا و آژانش های اجرایی آن قرار گرفت.
GEF Launches New Annual Monitoring Review (AMR) Interactive Map
By Dima Shocair Reda and Omid Parhizkar, GEF Operation and Business Strategy Team
The Results Based Management (RBM) team at the GEF presented to the GEF November 2011 41st Council Meeting its new state-of-art web-based interactive map. This new data portal was received with great appreciation and enthusiasm by Council members and Implementing Agencies alike. This work is a result of the Secretariat’s effort to enhance portfolio monitoring for GEF-5 by utilizing mapping as a way to better present and provide access to portfolio-level information.
The principal report on the GEF’s active portfolio is the Annual Monitoring Review (AMR). The rich data contained within the AMR is presented in an aggregated form through a static document. GEF stakeholders, including Council and Secretariat staff, often ask for specific manipulations of the data not necessarily included in the report. The RBM team has therefore introduced an inter-active map to upgrade the current static presentation of the GEF’s active portfolio. The dynamic web-based portal allows users to select the data most relevant to their needs in a disaggregated format.
The AMR mapping portal utilizes data provided by the GEF Implementing Agencies for projects under implementation in FY 2011 and will be updated on a yearly basis. It also includes data extracted from the GEF's Project Management Information System (PMIS) for projects since the inception of the GEF in 1991.
While the Secretariat has a number of effective tools in place to track the results chain, implementing this interactive mapping tool will further strengthen portfolio monitoring and in turn improve the Secretariat’s ability to ensure accountability, quality, and cater to a wider audience.

The AMR Mapping Portal
The new AMR interactive map (www.thegef.org/gef/RBM) introduces new features that for the first time, integrates the data received on a yearly basis, provides navigational flow, and improves presentation of information by which the user can narrow down the country selection and have access to project level information.
This data portal improves the organization, dissemination, and accessibility to stakeholders of the GEF’s active portfolio of projects and portfolio achievements. The envisioned layout is user-friendly and allows users to more easily create graphs, maps and charts summarizing information.
With the successful completion of this tool, the RBM team will begin discussions on focal area needs and will collaborate with the GEFs Scientific Technical and Advisory Panel (STAP) to further develop and design a Mapping for Results Platform which will provide access to project level results, visualize the location of our projects (geo-coding), and be tailored to focal area specific needs.









