| 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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وزارت محیط زیست ژاپن با همکاری موسسه استراتژی محیط زیست جهانی (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies) ) اقدام به بررسی وضعیت مدیریت زیست محیطی آب در برخی کشورهای آسیایی نموده است که در قالب یک گزارش 132 صفحه ای آن را منتشر نموده است. کشورهای مورد مطالعه عبارتند از: کامبوج، چین، اندونزی، ژاپن، کره جنوبی، لائو، مالزی، میانمار، نپال، فیلیپین، سریلانکا، تایلند و ویتنام. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.

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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به نقل از سایت عصر ایران:
تهران با بیان اینکه یکی از چگونگیهای ایجاد آلرژی ارثی بودن این بیماری است، گفت:
همچنین یکی دیگر از عوامل آن ورود ماده حساسیت زا در بدن است ولی آلرژی مسری
نیست.
فقط یک آلرژیست وجود دارد و داروهای پرمصرف آلرژِی نیز بیمه نیستند، گفت: تهران،
اهواز و کرج نیز 3 شهر نخست آلوده جهان به حساب میآیند.
محمد قراقوزلو در حاشیه همایش هفته جهانی آسم و آلرژی با انتقاد از عملکرد برخی
پزشکان اظهار داشت: متأسفانه پزشکان لیستی از غذاهای ممنوعه برای بیماران مبتلا به آسم و آلرژی تهیه کرده و در اختیار بیمار قرار میدهند که این کار صحیح نیست زیرا
متهم نخست آلرژی غذاها نیستند.
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The International Journal of Forest, Soil and Erosion (IJFSE) ISSN:
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Dear Colleague,
The International Journal of Forest, Soil and Erosion (IJFSE) ISSN:
2251-6387 is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. IJFSE publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of natural recourses, soil sciences and natural hazards including environmental sciences, forestry, Biological richness, disturbance ecology, soil science, arid soil research, relationship of soil an tree fruit production, irrigation, agricultural extension and role of soil in agricultural and agronomy development, root and soil ecology, Root and soil interaction, root and soil interface, soil bio-engineering techniques, soil fixing techniques, Soil loss protection with plants root, soil moisture relations and vegetation, soil nailing, soil protective techniques, soil sealing with plant roots, species selection for soil protection, Forest Soil Environment, Forests and Water Interactions, medicinal plants and natural productions,
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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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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.
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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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ژورنال کشاورزی و امینت غذایی مجله ای الکترونیک است که مباحث و موضوعات مرنبط با کشاورزی و امنیت غذایی را پوشش می دهد. آدرس سایت این ژورنال عبارتست از: http://www.agricultureandfoodsecurity.com/

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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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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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]
به نقل از سایت جهاد دانشگاهی مشهد:
سال ۲۰۱۲ مصادف است با پنجاهمین سال انتشار کتاب باارزش بهار خاموش، که به همین مناسبت برنامه های مختلفی در سال جاری میلادی در سراسر جهان توسط دوستداران محیط زیست برگزار می شود. از جمله آنها برگزاری کنسرت موسیقی با الهام از کتاب خانم راشل کارسون توسط ارکستر سمفونیک پیتزبورگ با نام بهار خاموش، که توسط استیون استاکی نوشته و در ماه فوریه در چند شهر آمریکا به اجرا درآمد. بهار خاموش با وجود گذشت نیم قرن هنوز هم واکنشهای بسیاری را برمی انگیزد. راشل کارسون زمانی که کتاب را مینوشت هیچ تصوری از تاثیری که برجا خواهد گذاشت نداشت و حتی زمانی که کتاب را به انتها رساند به یکی از دوستان نزدیکش نوشت: "واقع بینانه نیست که بپذیریم یک کتاب بتواند تغییری اساسی ایجاد کند." بنابراین خود او قادر به پیش بینی تاثیر عمیق و پایدار کاری که کرد نبود.
با مرور کودکی و نوجوانی راشل کارسون به هیچ نشانه ای از اینکه او روزی به یک مبارز سرسخت بدل شود برنمی خوریم. او در ۱۹۰۷ در اسپرینگدل به دنیا آمد و کودکی آرام و بیصدا بود و خودش خود را فردی منزوی تعریف میکند که بیشتر وقت خود را در جنگل و کنار رودخانه میگذراند و از پرنده ها، گلها و حشرات می آموخت. او همیشه کششی به سوی نوشتن احساس میکرد و اولین داستانش را در ۱۱ سالگی منتشر نمود. در دانشگاه زمانی که خود را برای یافتن شغل نوسندگی آماده می کرد ناگهان رشته تحصیلی اش را از ادبیات انگلیسی به زیست شناسی تغییر داد. اگر چه به او هشدار داده شده بود که برای یک زن در رشته های علوم طبیعی به جز تدریس در دبیرستان و کالج های سطح پایین شغل دیگری وجود ندارد و اساسا این رشته ها برای زنان بسیار دشوار است. زمانی که او مشغول گذراندن دوره لیسانس در دانشگاه بود، گمان نمی کرد بتواند روزی هر دو حوزه مورد علاقه اش یعنی زیست شناسی و نویسندگی را تلفیق کند.
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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]
پرداخت عوارض زیست محیطی یاPayments for Environmental Services) PES) تقریباً یکی از جدیدترین ابتکارات برای حمایت از محیط زیست با استفاده از منابع مالی جذب شده از ناحیه بهره برداران خدمات زیست محیطی می باشد. مطلع شدم که کنیا با این مقوله بسیار فعالانه برخورد نموده و در حال تدوین سیاست اجرایی شدن این مقوله می باشد. برای دریافت گزارش آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.

علاقمندان به مباحث بین رشته ای مرتبط با محیط زیست و منابع طبیعی می توانند با آبونمان شدن در این مجله به طور مرتب آن را دریافت نمایند.
New Issue Announcement
Volume 17, Issue 1| March 2012
Editors-in-Chief Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 17, Issue 1 of Ecology and Society. This issue sees the closure of the following special features: (1) Local, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels edited by Laura German, George C. Schoneveld, and Pablo Pacheco; (2) The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future edited by Karen Hussey and Jamie Pittock; and (3) Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation edited by Yorck von Korff, Sabine Moellenkamp, Pieter Bots, Katherine A. Daniell, and Rianne M. Bijlsma. We are also pleased to publish the first manuscript in the following special feature: (1) Sustainability Impact Assessment of Forest Management Alternatives in Europe edited by Geerten Hengeveld, Bill Mason, and Jean Michel Carnus. Also, we would like to congratulate Jan Sendzimir, Chris P. Reij, and Piotr Magnuszewski whose manuscript Rebuilding Resilience in the Sahel: Regreening in the Maradi and Zinder Regions of Niger was selected for the Ralf Yorque Memorial Prize for most novel paper of 2011! To read the full text of these articles, or to access all other articles published in this issue, please see the table of contents below.
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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]
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.

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]
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.
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.
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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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/
هدف از انجام تحقیقات مگر بهبود وضعیت تولید کشاورزی و بهبود وضعیت معیشیتی (مفهوم مد روز آن رفع فقر) نیست؟ در حال حاضر نه تنها در ایران بلکه در کل این کره خاکی بدین منوال است که محقق با تکیه بر تخصص، دانش و ذهنیات خود طرحی تحقیقاتی تهیه و از محلی نیز اعتبار آن تامین و بعد هم اجرا و نهایتاَ گزارش و چند مقاله.
به راستی جایگاه مصرف کننده نهایی که همان بهره بردار است در کجای این چرخه قرار دارد؟ چندی است که سخن از تحقیقات مشارکتی می شود اما هنوز اندر خم یک کوچه ایم. موسسه بین المللی توسعه محیط زیست در مقاله ای کوتاهی از ضرورت توجه و اولویت دادن به خواست کشاورزان سخن گفته است. عنوان انگلیسی مقاله انسان را یاد عنوان کتاب چمبرز می اندازد که با قلم دکتر ازکیا اولویت بخشی به فقرا (putting the last first) نام گرفته است. برای دریافت گزارش فوق اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Putting farmers first: reshaping agricultural research in West Africa
Michel Pimbert
How agricultural research is funded, organised, controlled and practised can have a huge impact on small-scale producers in the global South. This briefing explains how a series of farmer assessments and citizens’ juries in West Africa has helped farmers assess existing approaches and articulate recommendations for policy and practice to achieve their own vision of agricultural research.
If you would like to request a review copy of any of the publications featured in this bulletin please contact newbooks@iied.org
Publications Catalogue 10/11
IIED's latest catalogue on environment and development publications is now available.
This catalogue features our key in print titles, with new and forthcoming publications up to spring 2011. You can also find up to the minute information at www.iied.org/newpublications.
If you would like to receive a printed copy, please email newbooks@iied.org
Order online at www.earthprint.com and use promotion code IIED2057 to get a 20% discount.
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
اسکاپ، یونپ و بانک توسعه آسیا گزارشی از وضعیت رشد سبز در منطقه آسیا - اقیانوسیه تهیه نموده اند. برای دریافت گزارش 157 صفحه ای اینجا را کلیک کنید.
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.
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.
فائو گزارشی کوتاه در 4 صفحه در خصوص تاثیر تغییر اقلیم بر وقوع زمین لغزش ها منتشر نموده است و در آن با ارائه تعدادی نمودار از روند نامناسب وقوع زمین لغزش ها سخن به میان آورده که بخشی از آن را ناشی از تغییر اقلیم دانسته است.
FAO/RECOFTC Brief on Forests and Landslides in Asia Highlights Climate Impacts
31 January 2012: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) have released a brief that describes the role of forests and forestry in the prevention and rehabilitation of landslides in Asia, noting that landslides may increase over the coming decades, in part due to climate change.
The brief outlines the impacts of landslides on populations across Asia, noting that the poor are disproportionally affected. It underscores the role of forests in preventing landslides, and describes how in some areas of China and Mongolia, climate change is causing landslides due to rapidly thawing permafrost.
It outlines other climate change implications, such as increased rains and severe weather, which could lead to soil inundation and tree falls. The Brief also notes that climate change-induced drought will increase the chances of devastating wild fire and forest die-back, which by removing or damaging forest cover will induce root decay, resulting in loss of slope stability.
The brief outlines the process of rehabilitation of landslide affected areas, and opportunities to select socioeconomically beneficial tree species. It concludes by providing recommendations for maintenance of forest cover and forest health. [Publication: Forests and Landslides]
عناوین شماره فوریه مجله Mother Pelican که در زمینه توسعه پایدار انسانی است به قرار ذیل می باشد.
Mother pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
The February 2012 issue has been posted:
Editorial Essay - Fragments of the Transition to Sustainability
Articles:
There's No Such Thing as Ethical Oil, by Evan O'Neil
Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, by Michael Hudson
Responsible Finance and Economic Justice, by David McNair
Defamiliarizing the the Demographic Doomsday Diagram, by Arup Kanti Konar
Traditional Knowledge & Climate Change, by Gleb Raygorodetsky
The Masculinity Conspiracy - Part 5: Fatherhood, by Joseph Gelfer
Hydrocarbons, Metals and Alternative Energy, by John Petersen
The Role of Universities in Sustainable Development, by Walter Leal Filho
Supplements:
Advances in Sustainable Development
Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Long-Term Strategies for Sustainable Energy
Short-Term Strategies for Sustainable Energy
Fostering Gender Equality in Society
Fostering Gender Equality in Religion
Sincerely,
Luis
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
امروز بعد از مدتها به سایت سیاست زمین که مدیرش لستر براون معروف است سری زدم که اگر راستش را بخواهد باعثش هم مزدک دربیکی بود. در گوشه ای از سایت نوشته شده بود نامه ای از ایران. خوب روی آن کلیک کرده و دیدم که نامه ای است آز آقای حمید طراوتی مترجم فارسی برخی از کتاب های آقای لستر براون. نامه ای است در وصف و تمجید کتاب و اصرار ناشر در انتشار هر چه سریع تر آن. نامه را می خوانید.
As noted in our previous blogs, we rely on a network of publishers to translate and publish our publications, thus helping us to reach a global audience. Hamid Taravati, who translates and arranges for our books to be published in Iran, sent us an email recently updating us on some of the environmental work going on there. He is also a member of our Board. The following are excerpts from his letter

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A few weeks ago I received a call from Jahad Daneshgahi, a semi-governmental organization that is the publisher of Plan B and other Lester books and is very close to Iran reformists, asking me when the translation of the World on the Edge would be finished. That was the third time they had called to ask this. I apologized for the delay and promised to deliver the edited text soon. This seldom happens in Iran, a country where the rate of book reading is terribly low. Normally it is writers and translators, especially for scientific books, who ask the publishers, many times, and insist a lot to convince them to publish their books. But for Lester books it is different. At the end, the caller said, “People want to know what will happen next.” Around two weeks ago Farzaneh and I were invited to a meeting in which three distinguished agronomists and university professors were present. They had selected us to be honorary members of the board of a new organization established to issue licenses for bio farmers. [The first such organization in Iran.] At dinner, Professor Koochaki, one of the most prominent agronomy professors of Iran and author of many academic books, asked me about Plan B goals and said that your books—Lester’s books—have been the most impressive books he had ever read in the environment field because they are so “comprehensive.” A few months ago I was invited to a conference to talk about environmental ethics. I quoted Mones Sperber, the German psychologist and philosopher, who says “When a society is confronted with a crisis—environmental, social or political, like confronting a despotic government—the best way to get out of it is not to focus on misery, devastation, crime, etc.—bad news—but to show how we can get out of that, to create hope. Then people will move.” People want to know what will happen to their life. They need to have a complete picture of what is happening, good or bad, and to know in what direction they should go. This is what Lester provides, and they absorb it with much enthusiasm. There are many scientists whose books are taught at Iran universities, but those who have read Lester’s books have a prejudice to that. I am glad that Lester has started writing his autobiography and I think it will have an important effect on environmentalists. As the Board has discussed last year: “Lester has been one of the very first to promote sustainable development and making it popular.” People who have impressed the human community in their real life are the best candidates to write an autobiography. And I am glad that the book will be published by the EPI. I eagerly expect to receive it and start translating immediately. We live in a part of the globe where nothing comes to one’s mind except bad thoughts! I think that in the coming year the world will be expecting horrific events—environmental and social. I hope they will not destroy everything we have. One of the most important is the food crisis. The price of food is increasing so rapidly in this country that is worrisome. The price of a loaf of bread which used to be 45 Tooman is now 450 Tooman, ten times more. Also Iran is producing 1 million cars a year. It takes 12 to 14 hours to go from Tehran, the capital, to Chalus on the Caspian Sea, by car on holidays and the distance is only 150 Km [about 93 miles]. The reason is that there are too many cars. Finally I want to thank Lester, and all of you, for the great work that you are doing. We normally post an email each week to all the Iranian NGO’s and to our fans and friends, containing an article from EPI or part of the Plan B’s books. This is the only thing that can now be done here since nobody reads the existing newspapers. What I receive in response is very encouraging, supportive and comforting. I hope EPI will become more popular day by day and Lester, as one of the most influential thinkers of the world, will guide us to the new routes of breaking the vicious circle of population growth, poverty and environmental degradation. All the best, Hamid |
Hamid and others like him are our inspiration. Through their personal sacrifices, they are making a difference. It is largely because of the work of Hamid and Farzaneh that environmental issues are front and center in Iran. They have provided the information.
So, to all who are similarly working, thank you!
Sincerely,
Reah Janise Kauffman
کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی و تعدیل اثرات خشکسالی از تاریخ 17 ژوئن 1994 در پاریس که به امضاء 90 کشور رسید و ج.ا.ایران سومین کشور امضا کننده آن بود به حالت اجرایی درآمد. تا سال ها از اجرای کنوانسیون و مفاد آن خبری نبود و فقط حرف و حرف تا به اصطلاح نمایندگان کشورها توجیه شوند که اصلاً این کنوانسیون به دنبال چیست. نمایندگان کشورها هم در نشست های متعددی در سطح جهانی و بعد بین قاره ای و منطقه ای و زیر منطقه ای شرکت می نمودند تا بحث مقابله با بیابان زایی جا بیفتد و در راستای اجرایی کردن آن اقداماتی به عمل آید. برنامه های مختلفی برای اجرایی شدن این کنوانسیون در نظر گرفته شده بود که برخی از مهم ترین آن ها عبارتند از: برنامه اقدام ملی مقابله با بیابان زایی (NAP)، برنامه اقدام منطقه ای (RAP)، برنامه اقدام زیر منطقه ای (SRAP).
عملیاتی ترین این برنامه ها، برنامه اقدام ملی مقابله با بیابان زایی نام دارد که اگر به درستی تدوین و عملیاتی شود می توان به کنترل بیابان زایی امیدوار بود. بگذریم از آن که در کشور ما این برنامه از سال 1380 روی میز عاطل و باطل مانده و یکی دو باری بازنگری شده!!!
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دهمین نشست کنفرانس اعضا کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی و تعدیل اثرات خشکسالی در کره جنوبی برگزار شد و گروه های زیادی از دولتی ها، سازمان بین های بین المللی و سمن ها و بخش خصوصی در آن شرکت داشتند و گفتنی های قدیمی را به روز کردند و یک سری مباحث جدید هم به آن ها افزودند. برای اطلاع از ماحصل آن نشست به مطلب ذیل مراجعه نمائید.
UNCCD News Issue Reviews COP 10 Outcomes
January 2012: The latest issue of UNCCD News reviews the outcomes from the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
In his opening message, UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja highlights that the Changwon Initiative, which the Republic of Korea launched at COP 10, seeks to further advance the implementation of the UNCCD’s 10-year Strategy. He also calls attention to, inter alia, the Land for Life Award, which also was launched during COP 10, and the Sustainable Land Management Business Forum, which convened in Changwon. Gnacadja urges the international community “to adopt the goal of a land- degradation-neutral world” at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
A review of the outcomes of COP 10 notes that it was the first UNCCD COP to take place in Asia since the Convention came into force 15 years ago. It reports that the inaugural session of the Sustainable Land Management Business Forum convened in parallel to COP 10, and brought together nearly 100 business leaders in this private sector-led initiative and voluntary action platform.
A story about the Changwon Initiative notes that it will focus on critical strategic issues, such as the adoption of tangible targets for implementing the UNCCD. It indicates that the Initiative will: support current efforts aimed at encouraging all UNCCD stakeholders to agree on specific targets for the implementation of the UNCCD Strategy, and help to refine the set of impact indicators for monitoring and assessing desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) processes; mobilize additional resources and facilitate partnership arrangements, including for the support of efforts to align National Action Programmes (NAPs) with the 10-year Strategy; and support a global framework for the promotion of best practices.
The newsletter indicates that the application process for the Land for Life Award is open, with nominations invited from individuals, businesses, research and academic institutions, local governments, journalists and civil society organisations. The deadline for applications is 29 February 2012. The jury for the selection of the winner is as follows: Vandana Shiva, founder Navdanya International in India; Mick Dodson, a prominent indigenous land rights advocate and recent Australian of the Year; Yolanda Kakabadse, President of WWF International; Camilla Toulmin, Director, International Institute for Sustainable Development; Mary Seely, Founder, Desert Research Foundation of Namibia; Dennis Garrity, UNCCD Drylands Ambassador and former Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya; Joachim von Braun, Director of the Center for Development Research in Germany; Naomi Kipuri, a Maasai anthropologist and Executive Director of the Arid Lands Institute in Kenya; Don Koo Lee, COP 10 President and Minister of the Korea Forest Service, and Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UNCCD.
A final story discusses yellow dust, an Asian dust phenomenon. [Publication: UNCCD News Issue 3.5]
بر پایه نتایج مطالعه ای که اخیراً منتشر شده است اثرات تغییر اقلیم و بیابانزایی بر مناطق خشک را می توان با حفظ تنوع زیستی تعدیل نمود. مناطق خشک 40 درصد خشکی های جهان و زیستگاه یک پنجم تنوع گیاهی و یک سوم پرندگان اندمیک می باشد.
Fernando Maestre بوم شناسی از دانشگاه پادشاه خوان کارلوس اسپانیا 14 کارکرد تنوع زیستی را در 200 منطقه خشک 16 کشور بررسی نمود و نتایج مطالعه خود که حاکی از تاثیر مثبت تنوع زیستی بر حفظ مناطق خشک است را منتشر نمود.
Preserving biodiversity 'protects drylands'
16 January 2012 | EN
The impacts of climate change and desertification on drylands could be reduced by preserving biodiversity, one of the first studies to look at dryland biodiversity and ecosystems has found.
This, in turn, would help protect the livelihoods of more than a third of the global population.
Drylands occupy more than 40 per cent of the global land surface. They host around a fifth of the major centres of global plant diversity and more than a third of endemic bird areas — home to birds that live in geographically restricted areas.
"Biodiversity has an important effect on the quality and quantity of the ecosystem services provided by drylands," Fernando Maestre, an ecologist at the King Juan Carlos University, Spain, and lead author of the study — published in Science last week (13 January) — told SciDev.Net.
These crucial services include carbon storage and the build-up of nutrient pools, all of which are crucial to prevent negative impacts of climate change and desertification.
Researchers looked at 14 of these functions in more than 200 dryland ecosystems in 16 countries.
They found that the richness of biodiversity had a larger influence on the ability of dryland ecosystems to maintain these functions, than factors such annual rainfall levels or microbes in the soil.
Maestre said the findings seemed particularly relevant for ecosystem functions linked to carbon and nitrogen cycling.
"Because land degradation is often accompanied by the loss of soil fertility, plant species richness may also promote ecosystem resistance to desertification," he said.
John Lemons, professor emeritus of biology and environmental studies at the University of New England, United States, told SciDev.Net that the study was the first to determine the relationship between dryland biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions.
More than a third of the global population lives in drylands so the preservation of their biodiversity is crucial for their livelihoods, added Maestre.
"This kind of study would be of enormous assistance to countries trying to implement biodiversity plans under the UN Convention on Biodiversity," said Lemons.
Writing in an accompanying perspective, also published in Science, Guy Midgley, of the South African National Biodiversity Institute and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, said that the study had taken an important step towards understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function.
The study "has global relevance, and is especially valuable for many developing and least-developed countries facing desertification trends," he said.
ایجاد ارزش های جدید برای آفریقا نام گزارشی است 67 صفحه ای که با مشارکت UNDP و ICRAF تهیه شده است و در آن تاکید بر ایجاد بازارهایی برای خدمات زیست محیطی در آفریقا دارد. برای دریافت گزارش اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Creating New Values for Africa
Emerging Ecosystem Service Markets
This booklet contains 12 featured projects and initiatives which demonstrate the current innovations and challenges to carbon, water, biodiversity PES implementation in Africa. Our hope is that this publication, (coupled with training sessions, policy advice, legal analysis, and network building) will enable community leaders, government actors, NGO technical staff, project developers and other interested persons to gain access to PES best practice, build a local community of PES learning, craft policies that are supportive of PES, and design PES projects which provide lasting ecosystem services and livelihood benefits.
امروز ایمیلی دریافت کردم که در آن اشاره به انتشار گزارش مدیریت جامع منابع آب در منطقه آمریکای لاتین و کارائیب داشت. فهرست مطالب را جالب توجه دیدم که در صورت تمایل هم می توانید با آدرس ذیل تماس بگیرید برای دریافت نسخه چاپی گزارش فوق.
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that has become available a translation into English of issue No. 35 of the Circular of the Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. You can download it (PDF, 0.3 MB) at:
http://www.cepal.org/drni/noticias/circulares/7/45057/carta35in.pdf
Hard copies are available by air mail, free of charge, while our extremely limited supplies last. Requests should be addressed to my colleague, Caridad Canales, caridad.canales@cepal.org, INDICATING YOUR COMPLETE POSTAL ADDRESS. ** Please, do NOT SEND REQUESTS TO THIS E-MAIL (do not use "REPLY"), but do so by sending an e-mail directly to caridad.canales@cepal.org **
Contents of issue No. 35:
- Water institutions and climate change adaptation.
- Drinking water and sanitation services: lessons from relevant experience.
- Relevant experiences in institutional frameworks and contracts.
- The infrastructure gap in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- "Water in the Green Economy in Practice: Towards Rio +20" International Conference.
- Specific Water Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic of Guatemala.
- International Investment Protection Treaties and Regulation of Public Services.
- Harmony between bilateral investment treaties and the human right to water.
- Internalizing the benefits of the environmental service provided by water in water tariffs.
Yours sincerely,
Andrei S. Jouravlev
Economic Affairs Officer
Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
نگاهی دقیق به پتانسیل های تقلیل جهانی اثرات تقلیل اقلیم حاکی از آن است که تغییرات کشاورزی و کاربری اراضی از جمله تخریب جنگل در مناطق حاره ای نزدیک به یک سوم انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای جهان را سبب می شود. بر پایه گزارشی که فائو منتشر کرده است 70% پتانسیل های تقلیل کشاورزی در کشورهای در حال توسعه مهیا می باشد. در این جا دو گزارش ارائه شده است که مقوله توان کنترل انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای در بخش کشاورزی را بررسی نموده است.
a glance at global mitigation potentials shows that changes in agriculture and land use, including deforestation in tropical areas, currently account for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
FAO figures reveal that 70% of the agricultural mitigation potential can be realized in developing countries.
However, globally, three-quarters of all malnourished people depend on agriculture and would be directly affected by international mitigation agreements aimed at agriculture.
Against this background, MISEREOR would like to share two new papers with you. They examine whether the so called climate smart agriculture solutions No-Till and Biochar actually lead to climate-friendly and equitable agriculture with a clear commitment to a pro-poor approach.
They show that their potential to sequester carbon are far overestimated while at the same time, their potential to ensure food security and sustainable development is rather low or, regarding biochar, even contra productive.
No-till agriculture – a climate smart solution?
By Andreas Gattinger, Julia Jawtusch,
Adrian Muller, Paul Mäder, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
(FiBL)
http://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/redaktion/MISEREOR_no%20till.pdf
Biochar – a climate smart solution?
By Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch
http://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Report1_Biochar_111122.pdf
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IGES Policy Report 2011-003 The Role of Governments in Education for Sustainable Consumption: Strengthening capacity for effective implementation in China, Japan, and Republic of Korea |
دولت ها هم در آموزش برای مصرف پایدار نقش ایفا می نمایند. موسسه Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) گزارشی 144 صفحه ای به منظور تقویت ظرفیت برای اجرای موثر در کشورهای چین، ژاپن و کره جنوبی مطالعه ای انجام داده است که می توانید فایل آن را از اینجا داونلود کنید.
Editor: Didham, Robert James. Author: Tian, Qing; Sato, Masahisa; Nakahara, Hideki; Lee, So-Young; Kang, Jung Hwa and Didham, Robert James|2011/12|December 2011. 140.|Publisher: IGES(Hayama, Japan)
Language: English|Publication Type: Policy Reports|ISBN/ISSN: 978-4-88788-090-0|Copyright: IGES
National and sub-national policy for Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) is one of the powerful instruments to influence sustainable consumption (SC) behaviour at both individual and organisational levels. This report addresses how to improve the capacity of policy makers and governments in formulating ESC policy. It also addresses the strategies governments can use to influence consumer behaviour.
The report presents three country case studies that look at the current institutional frameworks and governmental capacities for implementing effective ESC from P. R. China, Japan and Republic of Korea. Despite diverse policy dialogues and many initiatives on SCP, there is still a lack of knowledge and experience on how we actually can educate nations and their citizens for sustainable consumption. The main research was conducted through survey and interviews with relevant government officials in P. R. China, Japan and Republic of Korea, and it was supported by additional review of current policy frameworks and strategic plans and assessment of training materials/curriculums. This research was conducted in the respective countries by research partners at Beijing Normal University, Tokyo City University and Consumers Union of Korea in close collaboration with IGES.
The promotion of sustainable consumption and green markets has received attention from many national governments including the P. R. China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. All three countries have demonstrated interest and commitment towards shifting to more sustainable patterns of development and have also recognised the importance of sustainable consumption in achieving this. However, ESC still remains a very young and even novel topic that does not yet have substantial policy mandates to ensure its implementation in these countries, and thus there are many opportunities for capacity building to advance effective implementation.
The findings from this research identify key aspects of current governmental context for promoting SC and consumer awareness raising (including relevant policy frameworks, overall strategies, understandings of government officials, and barriers and obstacles to implementation). The three country cases are then analysed in a comparative capacity assessment. The assessment framework is based on the four levers of change identified by UNDP for assessing capacity assets and needs: 1) institutional arrangements, 2) leadership, 3) knowledge, and 4) accountability.
The main focus of the recommendations is on improving the wider policy and institutional frameworks for ESC implementation and to discuss how ESC can be better linked with wider policies for both sustainable production and consumption (SCP) and education for sustainable development (ESD). The primary recommendations in this work address:
1) Expanding roles and responsibilities for ESC beyond national governments;
2) Applying multiple policy mechanisms and inter-ministerial/inter-agency approaches;
3) Defining policy priorities and target areas for sustainable consumption;
4) Addressing ESC as a thematic approach to ESD and SCP;
5) Improving accountability as a means to strengthen the overall system, and;
6) Advancing ESC in formal education curriculums.
Keywords:
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION (ESC), POLICY ASSESSMENT, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
Geographic area:

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حتماً یادتان هست که دومین گزارش کشوری تغییر اقلیم در هفدهمین اجلاس چارچوب تغییر اقلیم در دوربان آفریقای جنوبی ارائه شد و مقامی بهتر از سوم از آخر بدست نیاورد حالا هم سازمان معظم حفاظت محیط زیست مترصد تهیه و تدوین گزارش سوم می باشد. خبر را می خوانید:
با همکاری سازمان ملل متحد؛
ایران سومین گزارش ملی تغییرات اقلیم را تهیه می کند
سبزپرس – گروه تغییرات اقلیمی: سند همکای تهیه سومین گزارش ملی تغییرات اقلیم در ایران توسط رئیس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست و نماینده مقیم برنامه عمران ملل متحد به امضا رسید.
به گزارش سبزپرس، این سند روز چهارشنبه (30 دی) در پارک پردیسان تهران به امضای «کنسوئلو ویدال» نماینده برنامه عمران ملل متحد (UNDP) و محمد جواد محمدی زاده، رئیس سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست رسید.
پیش از این سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست دومین گزارش ملی تغییرات اقلیم در ایران را در جریان اجلاس هفدمین متعاهدین کنوانسیون تغییرات اقلیمی در شهر دوربان آفریقای جنوبی رونمایی کرده بود.
این گزارش شامل وضعیت اقلیمی ایران، میزان انتشار گازهای گلخانه، فعالیت های مهار این گازها و همچنین پیشنهادها برای کاهش انتشار گازها و اثرات گلخانه ای در ایران می شد.
برابر هماهنگی های صورت گرفته با سازمان ملل متحد، سومین گزارش تغییرات اقلیمی در ایران نیز در خردادماه 1394 منتشر خواهد شد.
برابر تفاهم نامه همکاری امضا شده در روز چهارشنبه، برای تهیه گزارش سوم اعتباری 870 هزار دلاری در نظر گرفته شده که 480 هزار دلار آن توسط برنامه عمران ملل متحد تامین خواهد شد. 390 هزار دلار اعتبار باقیمانده نیز به صورت نقدی و همچنین در اختیار قرار دادن امکانات مورد نیاز، توسط سازمان حفاظت محیط زیست تامین می شود.
مرجع تهیه سند سوم تغییرات اقلیم در کشور، سازمان محیط زیست است اما دستگاه های دیگر مانند وزارتخانه های نیرو، نفت، جهاد کشاورزی، صنایع، کشور و سازمان های دیگر نظیر سازمان هواشناسی در تهیه این گزارش همکاری خواهند داشت.
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روند تخریب جنگل بسیار شدید است به طوری که سازمان ملل اعلام نموده رقمی حدود 14.5 میلیون هکتار جنگل سالانه تبدیل به اراضی زراعی می شوند. در گزارشی که چندی پیش منتشر شده است سطح جنگل های جهان را در سال 2005، 3.69 میلیارد هکتار معادل 30% وسعت جهان اعلام نموده است. این گزارش 8 صفحه ای را می توانید از اینجا دریافت نمائید.
NEW UN SATELLITE SURVEY OF FORESTS CHARTS EXTENT OF GLOBAL DEFORESTATION
New York, Nov 30 2011
1:05PM
The rate of global deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, averaged 14.5 million hectares a year between 1990 and 2005, according to a satellite-based survey <"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/95180/icode/">released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The findings of the global remote sensing <"http://foris.fao.org/static/data/fra2010/RSS_Summary_Report_lowres.pdf">survey
show that the world’s total forest area in 2005 was 3.69 billion hectares, or 30
per cent of the global land area.
Worldwide, the net loss of forest area between 1990 and 2005 was not as great as previously believed, since gains in forest areas are larger than previously estimated, according to the survey.
The net loss – when losses of forest cover are partially offset by afforestation or natural expansion – totalled 72.9 million hectares, or 32 percent less than the previous figure of 107.4 million hectares. In other words, the planet lost an average of 4.9 million hectares of forest per year, or nearly 10 hectares of forest per minute over the 15-year period.
The new data also show that the net loss of forests accelerated, increasing from 4.1 million hectares per year between 1990 and 2000 to 6.4 million hectares between 2000 and 2005.
The figures are based on the most comprehensive use yet of high-resolution satellite data to provide a sample of forests worldwide. They differ from previous findings of the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment last year, which were based on a compilation of country reports that used a wide variety of sources.
“Deforestation is depriving millions of people of forest goods and services that are crucial to food security, economic well-being and environmental health,” said Eduardo Rojas-Briales, the FAO Assistant Director-General for Forestry.
“The new, satellite-based figures give us a more consistent, global picture, over time, of the world’s forests. Together with the broad range of information supplied by the country reports, they offer decision-makers at every level more accurate information, and underscore the need for countries and organizations to urgently address and halt the loss of valuable forest ecosystems,” he added.
Between 1990 and 2005, the loss of forests was highest in the tropics, where just under half of the world’s forests are located. Net losses in this region averaged 6.9 million hectares per year.
The highest rate of conversion of forest land use to other, unspecified, land uses for both periods was in South America, followed by Africa. Asia was the only region to show net gains in forest land-use area in both periods.
Deforestation occurred in all regions, including Asia, but the extensive planting that has been reported by several countries in Asia – mainly China – exceeded the forest areas that were lost.
برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد با حمایت مالی تسهیلات محیط زیست جهانی گزارشی در 6 فصل و 218 صفحه در مورد فن آوری های سازگاری با تغییر اقلیم در بخش کشاورزی تدوین و در آگوست 2011 منتشر کرده است که می توانید آن را از لینک ذیل دریافت نمائید.
New guidebook on Technology for Climate Change
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A new guidebook on Technology for Climate Change Adaptation in the Agriculture sector has been recently published by GEF-UNEP. This guidebook is intended to assist developing country governments, agriculture practitioners, and stakeholders in conducting Technology needs Assessment and prepare technology action plans for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector under the Global Environment Facility. |
برآورد ارزش تنوع زیستی از مهم ترین اموری است که در بسیاری از نقاط جهان مغفول مانده و هنوز هم کارشناسان محیط زیست دست به دامن اقتصاد دان ها هستند تا آن ها برایشان این محاسبات را انجام دهند.
در گزارشی که توسط اتحادیه جهانی حفظ طبیعت در مورد ارزش تنوع زیستی منتشر شده به منافع تنوع زستی و مقایسه آن با ارزش بخش معدن اشاره شده است. گزارش فوق در 49 صفحه و شش فصل تهیه شده است.
Exploring ecosystem valuation to move towards net positive impact on biodiversity in the mining sectorThis study examines the costs of conservation and the value of benefits associated with biodiversity around the QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) project area, with a focus on the Tsitongambarika (TGK) forest complex. The aim is to quantify and value changes in ecosystem services resulting from interventions that deviate from 'business as usual' in TGK, i.e. projected continued deforestation and ecosystem degradation, in favour of some form of forest conservation. > Download PDF |
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تلفیق اقتصاد در مدیریت منابع و محیط زیست: تجاربی از اقیانوسیه نام گزارشی از اتحادیه حهانی جفاظت از طبیعت (IUCN) است که در 13 فصل و 144 صفحه تهیه و منتشر شده است.
Integrating economics into resource and environmental management : some recent experiences in the PacificIn 2009, IUCN-Oceania Regional Office in partnership with SOPAC and SPC established the Pacific Resource and Environmental Economics Network (PREEN). The PREEN was established in response to a need by the small but growing group of practitioners in the Pacific for a professional body to share information and access peer support to conduct natural resource and/or environmental economics in the region. Contained in this document is a subset of papers presented at the Inaugural PREEN Workshop. > Download PDF |
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گزارش فوق حاصل یک تحقیق عملیاتی یا مشارکتی است که با بهره برداران در کشور تانزانیا انجام شده و در ژورنال بین المللی تحقیقات جنگل به چاپ رسیده است که برای مشاهده آن می توانید اینجا را کلیک کنید. محققین به این نتیجه رسیدند که بسیاری از امور را بهره برداران محلی با آموزش های بسیار ساده توانستند انجام دهند.
Dear all,
this article might interest some of you:
"Participatory Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+: Learning from Tanzania," International Journal of Forestry Research, vol. 2012, Article ID 126454, 14 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/126454. Article by Mukama, K., Mustalahti, I and Zahabu, E.
You may access this article from the Table of Contents of Volume 2012, which is located at the following link:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfr/contents/
Alternatively, you may directly access the article at the following location:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfr/2012/126454/
Best regards,
Irmeli
Irmeli Mustalahti
PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Development Studies
Department of Political and Economic Studies
University of Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-405092615
Email: irmeli.mustalahti@helsinki.fi
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/tzredd-actionresearch/
موسسه غیر انتفاعی Sustainable Society Foundation که در هلند واقع است بر اساس 24 شاخص، وضعیت توسعه پایدار کشورها را نشان می دهد. شاخص های 24 گانه ذیلاً در تصویر نشان داده شده اند. با وارد نمودن نام کشور مورد نظر وضعیت هر یک از شاخص ها به طور همزمان روی همان تصویر نشان داده می شود. آدرس سایت آن هم عبارتست از: http://www.ssfindex.com/

فائو در گزارشی که اخیراً منتشر کرده است نسبت به عواقب تخریب جنگل های کوهستانی هشدار داده است و علل این تخریب ها را هم بر شمرده که ظاهراً افزایش حرارت و آتش سوزی ها، رشد جمعیت، ناامنی غذایی و سوخت از جمله این علل می باشد. در خاتمه این گزارش هم تاکید می کند که سیاست گذاران باید اقدام مناسب برای کنترل روند تغییر اقلیم اتخاذ نمایند. برای دریافت این گزارش 86 صفحه ای اینجا را کلیک کنید.
FAO Raises Alarms on Consequences of Mountain Forests Loss
9 December 2011: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, has published a report titled "Mountain Forests in a Changing World" that brings attention to the threats to mountain forests including increasing temperatures and wildfires, population growth and food and fuel insecurity.
The report notes that expansion of intensive agriculture has pushed smallholder farmers higher up slopes to marginal areas, and that climate change is likely to facilitate more rapid expansion of damaging pests. The report also highlights the important role mountain forests play as sources of fresh water for cities. It calls on national policymakers to take the protection of mountain forests into account and integrate these concerns into climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.
The report was released prior to International Mountain Day, observed on 11 December. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the World Mountain Forum, will launch a new public-private partnership initiative to support global sustainable mountain development efforts. [UN News Centre Media Release][FAO Media Release][Publication: Mountain Forests in a Changing World]
موسسه جنگل اروپا به تازگی با همکاری دانشگاه آلترا / واخنینگن هلند یک سری نقشه 1 کیلومتر در 1 کیلومتر از نحوه توزیع 20 گونه درختی در سراسر اروپا منتشر کرده است. این نقشه از مجموع داده ها و اطلاعات 260000 کوادرات انوانتری جنگل در 17 کشور بدست آمده است. می توانید از طریق آدرس ذیل و پس از عضویت که زمان اندکی می برد نسبت به دریافت فایل آن اقدام نمائید.
European Forest Institute (EFI) in cooperation with Alterra / Wageningen University has released a set of 1x1 km tree species maps showing the distribution of 20 tree species over Europe. Basic dendrometric data were kindly received for 260,000 national forest inventory plot locations from 17 countries to compile these maps. Forest plot data collected in a European-wide network (ICP Level I) have been used to extend the available data for the remaining European countries. Furthermore, forest inventory statistics have been applied. Never before, such harmonized maps were available at the European scale, at this level of detail. These maps will be important for future resource analyses, and e.g. carbon analysis.
More details on the mapping method are provided in a scientific article by Brus et al. 2011 ‘Statistical mapping of tree species over Europe’, European Journal of Forest Research Vol. 131 (1): 145–157.
For full acknowledgements, and references see also www.efi.int/portal/virtual_library/information_services/mapping_services/tree_species_maps_for_european_forests/.
The GIS data are available for download from EFI website after short registration (www.efi.int/projects/tree-species-map/register.php)
Photo: Aggregated results showing the dominant species at 1x1km
Best regards,
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Assistant Director
European Forest Institute
Joensuu, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Freiburg, Nancy, Vienna.
+ 358 50 5596765
ژورنال توافقات زیست محیطی بین المللی، سیاست، حقوق و اقتصاد آماده دریافت مقاله می باشد. برای دریافت اطلاعات بیش به سایت آن مراجعه نمائید.
Jounal of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (INEA)
INEA has a great reputation in hosting Special Issues on topics within the scope of the journal. If you want to publish a special issue with INEA you are asked to send the following information to INEA’s Managing Editor, Agni Kalfagianni (agni.kalfagianni@ivm.vu.nl):
- title of special issue;
- names and CVs of editors;
- list of papers;
- list of reviewers;
- time-planning.
Individual paper submissions can be made online via the following link
چندی قبل در مورد گزارشی نوشتم با عنوان سایه سنگین دام بر محیط زیست (Long shadow of livestock on environment) این گزارش در سال 2006 توسط فائو منتشر شده بود و در آن اعلام شده بود که میزان تخریب ناشی از دام ها بیش از خودروها می باشد چون دام ها متان از خود دفع می کنند. حدس زدم حال که نمی شود ساخت و فروش خودروها را محدود کرد می شود که تولید دام را محدود کرد کافی است سوبسید تولید را در بازار جهانی محدود کرد!!! بعدها هم در مورد تحقیقات انجام شده در زمینه کاهش گاز متان انتشاری از دام ها سخن گفتم که راه کار آن افزوده سیر به خوراک دام ها بود. خلاصه همیشه در فکر بودم که این موضوع به کجا خواهد انجامید تولید دام و یا توقف آن. امروز در لابه لای ایمیل ها مطلبی با عنوان تولید همبرگر از فضولات شهری دیدم که برایم عجیب بود البته نوشته شده بود ابتکار ژاپنی اگر نوشته شده بود ابتکار چینی با بی میلی از کنارش رد می شدم چون نمونه های بسیاری از تولیدات خوراکی چینی ها دیده ام مانند تولید تخم مرغ با مواد شیمیایی یا تبدیل گوشت خوک به گوشت گاو.
القصه خبر را خواندم و دنبال منبعش جستجوی ساده ای انجام دادم . می توانید برای تائید اینجا را کلیک کنید. حالا خبر را بخوانید:
ابتکار یک دانشمند ژاپنی: ساخت همبرگر از فضولات انسانی
شده است. مساله جالبتر اینکه در آزمایشهای انجام شده، داوطلبان طعم این گوشت را خوشمزه و مانند گوشت طبیعی توصیف کردهاند! همچنین این پژوهشگران این ماده جدید را با وجود ریشه نامعمول و نامطبوع آن، دوستدار بهتری از
گوشت گاو برای محیط زیست خواندهاند که میزان زیادی گازهای گلخانهای از خود تولید
میکنند.
ایکدا همچنین اطمینان داده که گواهی سبز این ماده به مصرفکنندگان کمک میکند تا بر تمام موانع روانی خود غلبه کنند.
فائو نشریه ای با عنوان Land Tenure Journal دارد یعنی حق انتفاع که این شماره آن به مباحث حق انتفاع و تغییر اقلیم اختصاص یافته است.
A thematic issue of the Land Tenure Journal is now available online. The articles can be accessed through: www.fao.org/nr/tenure/land-tenure-journal.
This thematic issue brings together theories and practices related to land tenure and climate change both from the mitigation and adaptation perspectives.
Articles look at the implications that REDD+ and Payments for Environmental Services pose to land tenure and administration, propose approaches to deal with the new challenges and analyse the adaptation of local tenure systems and livelihoods to climate change.
The Land Tenure Journal is peer-reviewed and aims to be an open, impartial and practice-oriented global forum for exchanging the latest knowledge in land tenure. It aims to be a leading publication in the areas of land tenure, land policy and land reform.
The target audience of the journal are land professionals and practitioners. The journal also allows room for relevant academic contributions and theoretical analyses.
فائو گزارشی با عنوان World livestock 2011 با محوریت امنیت غذایی در 130 صفحه منتشر کرده است برای دریافت آن اینجا را کلیک کنید.
World Livestock 2011 - Livestock in Food
Security
The first section of the report presents a global overview, examining the role that livestock play in various dimensions of food security. It describes the place of livestock products in human nutrition, the contribution of livestock to the world food supply and its stability, and it discusses the way that livestock can affect food access, particularly for poor families, as a direct source of food and a source of income.
The second section
shifts from the global level to a human perspective, examining the way in which livestock contributes to the food security of three different human populations livestock-dependent pastoralists and ranchers, small-scale mixed farmers and urban dwellers.
The final part of the report looks to the future. It discusses the expected demand for livestock source food and the way that increased demand can be met with ever more limited resources. It reviews the drivers that led to the livestock revolution, how these have changed and what the implications will be for livestock contributing to food security.
ژورنال جدیدی با نام Ecosystem Services از ابتدای سال 2012 منتشر خواهد شد برای اطلاعات بیش تر اینجا را کلیک کنید.
Ecosystem Services
Science, Policy and Practice
Ecosystem Services, associated with the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), is an international, interdisciplinary journal that deals with the science, policy and practice of Ecosystem Services in the following disciplines: ecology and economics, institutions, planning and decision making, economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry and outdoor recreation, and all types of ecosystems.
The aims of the journal are:
(1) to improve our understanding of the dynamics, benefits and social and economic values of ecosystem services,
(2) to provide insight in the consequences of policies and management for ecosystem services with special attention to sustainability issues,
(3) to create a scientific interface to policymakers in the field of ecosystem services assessment and practice, and
(4) to integrate the fragmented knowledge about ecosystem services, synergies and trade-offs, currently found in a wide field of specialist disciplines and journals.
Manuscripts should always address ecosystem services and deal with at least one of the following themes:
(a) the link between ecosystem services and social and economic benefits and associated values, including monetary values; i.e. what is the role of ecosystem services in providing and sustaining benefits for humans and how are these benefits and values perceived by public and policy makers?
(b) the link between the levels of ecosystem services and economic, environmental and land use policies and practices; i.e. how is (the sustainability of) ecosystem services in natural, agricultural and urban systems affected by these policies and what are the trade-offs in service provision, and subsequent benefits and economic values, between different policy schemes?
(c) the link between government and business strategies and the sustainability of ecosystem services, i.e. the use of ecosystem services in PES arrangements, biodiversity-offset programs and multiple service land use planning.
Articles may address these topics from different (paradigmatic) perspectives, including basic research, integrated assessment approaches and (ex ante and ex post) policy evaluations. They may be inter-disciplinary or draw from specialized fields within economic, ecological, social and political sciences. Systems addressed may range from natural and semi-natural ecosystems to cultivated systems and urban areas and from local to global scales.
Article types:
• Original Research Articles (including policy assessments)
• Short communications
• Review Articles (including policy reviews)
• Views and Commentaries
• Letters to the Editor
• Special issue Papers
Audience: academia, governments, non-governmental organisations, business community.
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| * ایجاد زمینه ارتقاء سطح دانش و پژوهش در مدیریت و برنامه ریزی محیط زیست ، از طریق چاپ و انتشار مقالات علمی، پژوهشی و مروری | ||
* شناخت و معرفی نوآوری ها، خلاقیت های علمی- پژوهشی در سطح ملی و بین المللی مدیریت و برنامه ریزی محیط زیست
| * تلاش برای ورود و عضویت در بانکهای اطلاعاتی علمی بین المللی |
| * تلاش در جهت رفع نیازهای علمی و پژوهشی کشور در زمینه مدیریت و برنامه ریزی محیط زیست |
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* سیاست کلی عبارت از موضوعی و تخصصی نمودن فصلنامه است آدرس سایت فصلنامه هم عبارتست از: http://www.jemp.ir/index.aspx |
نشست هفدهم کنفرانس تغییر اقلیم در دوربان آفریقای جنوبی روزهای پایانی خود را می گذراند. در روزهای پایانی این اجلاس مهم کتابی الکترونیکی منتشر شده توسط خانمی عکاس که مروری مصور دارد بر روند احلاس شانزدهم تغییر اقلیم که در کانکون مکزیک برگزار شد. در این کتاب وی با افرادی از طیف های مختلف در خصوص نشست و انتظارات آن ها مصاحبه نموده است. کتاب در 809 صفحه به دو زبان تهیه شده است. برای دریافت آن می توانید اینجا را کلیک کنید.
I would like to bring to your attention a new e-book:
COP 16: Views & Visiones by Conceição Praun.
This new publication comes at a time when organizations are negotiating the future of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban and provides an encompassing state-of-the-art picture of the last COP 16 in Cancun. In this book, Conceição highlighted the different points of view of the public and participants with an introductory section covering the Inauguration and High Level Segment Speeches, a secondsection with interviews with over 30 delegates and attendants, and a third with a gallery of pictures of the international event.
The book delves into multi-faceted aspects of COP 16, describing the event expectations and outcomes from the perspectives of a range of participants.
Interviews include Mexican delegates and representatives of organizations such as CONABIO, ICLEI, Greenpeace, Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (FAS), Ministries of Environment, Universities, recognized authorities as Yvo de Boer (formerly the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), and Mario Molina (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry), as well as local NGOs and farmers.
For the full book and pictures access:http://www.socialcarbon.org/uploadDocs/Views_VisionesCOP16.pdf
For more info on: please contact: conceicaopraun@gmail.com
About the author: Conceição Praun wasborn in Olinda, a city in North East of Brazil and moved to Europe where she became a photojournalist. Most of her work has been reflected in black & white pictures and exposed in books, catalogs, exhibitions, audiovisual and talks in: London, Paris, Cannes, Monaco, Munich, Copenhagen, Mumbai, New Delhi, Trivandrum, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Cyprus, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Havana, Mexico City and Cancun.
برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد با همکاری تعدادی از سازمان ها و دستگاه های سازمان ملل اقدام به بررسی اثرات تغییر اقلیم بر معیشت مردم منطقه ساحل و غرب آفریقا نموده و در جریان اجلاس تغییر اقلیم مدیر برنامه محیط زیست مختصری از این گزارش را ارائه داد و از کشورها خواست که سیاست هایی اتخاذ نمایند برای جلوگیری از رقابت بر سر منابع و جنگ و مهاجرت اجباری .
UN STUDY REVEALS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN LIVELIHOODS IN SAHEL AND WEST AFRICA
New York, Dec 5 2011 2:05PM
Climate change is already having an impact in the livelihoods of millions of people in the Sahel and West Africa, according to a new United Nations study released today, which calls for governments to implement policies that will prevent competition for resources, conflict and forced migration in the region.
The study, released during the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, provides new evidence revealing how changing climatic conditions are having an impact on the natural resources available in 17 West African countries.
This change, combined with population growth and weak governance has led to greater competition over scarce resources and changing migration patterns, increasing the risk of conflict.
“This analysis underlines how competition between communities for scarce resources, especially land, water and forests, is already a reality in West Africa,” <"http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2661&ArticleID=8971&l=en">said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner. “Regional cooperation will be key to diffusing tensions, managing down the risks and curtailing the possibilities of increased conflict and environmentally-induced migration.”
ادامه مطلب ...
تا چندی بعد یعنی سال 2050 جمعیت جهان به 9 میلیارد نفر خواهد رسید. تخریب سرزمین از یک سو و کمبود آب از سوی دیگر، وضعیت تولید مواد غذایی را با بحران مواجه خواهد کرد. اخیراً فارئو گزارشی با عنوان " وضعیت منابع آب و سرزمین جهان برای غذا و کشاورزی یا
"State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) report"
منتشر کرده است که افزایش قیمت محصولات خوراکی را هم بررسی کرده است.
LAND DEGRADATION AND WATER SHORTAGES THREATEN GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION – UN
New York, Nov 28 2011
1:05PM
Global food production is being undermined by land degradation and shortages of farmland and water resources, making feeding the world’s rising population – projected to reach nine billion by 2050 – a daunting challenge, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report unveiled today.
The past five decades have witnessed a significant rise in food production, but in many places the better yields have been associated with agricultural practices that have degraded the land and water systems, according to FAO’s <i><"http://www.fao.org/nr/solaw/solaw-home/en/">State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture</i> (SOLAW) report.
Farming systems “face the risk of progressive breakdown of their productive capacity under a combination of excessive demographic pressure and unsustainable agriculture use and practices,” says the report.
Competition for land and water is increasing – including competition between urban and industrial users – as well as within the agricultural sector between livestock, staple crops, non-food crop, and biofuel production.
Climate change is expected to alter the patterns of temperature, precipitation and river flows upon which the world’s food production systems depend, according to the report, which also notes that the problem could be more acute in developing countries, where quality land, soil nutrients and water are least abundant.
ادامه مطلب ...
گزارش های ذیل را فائو منتشر کرده است: 1- جنسیت و تغییر اقلیم در کشاورزی و امنیت غذایی برای توسعه روستایی 2 کشاورزی هوشمندانه تر در قبال تغییر اقلیم 3- پایش و ارزیابی انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای و پتانسیل های کنترل آن در بخش کشاورزی
We are happy to share with you three information briefs prepared on different aspects of climate change and agriculture:
- Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development – an information brief on new research methods and training materials, prepared by FAO and CCAFS
- Increasing Agriculture’s Climate Smartness – an information brief from
the Workshop on Agriculture Development and Climate Smart Agriculture in
Developing Countries, Copenhagen, February, 2011 funded by the FAO and the European Union and organized by Aarhus University, ICROFS, CCAFS, the University of Copenhagen and the FAO
- Monitoring and Assessment of GHG Emissions and Mitigation Potentials in Agriculture – an information brief prepared by the FAO-MICCA Programme
For more information, please see: http://www.fao.org/climatechange/micca/en/
Best regards,
Christina
Seeberg-Elverfeldt
برای راه اندازی و اجرایی کردن هر سیاستی فقط تدوین و به اصطلاح سیاست گزاری کفایت نمی کند و لازم است که راه کارهایی برای ترویج و عملیاتی شدن سیاست های تدوین شده به کار گرفته شوند. REDD موضوعی جدید و بحث برانگیز است که برنامه محیط زییست می خواهد اولاً کشورها را ارزیابی کند و بعد هم اقدام به ترویج این مکانیزم نماید. برای دریافت گزارش این را از اینجا کلیک کنید.
REDD+ in Asia-Pacific: Are capacity building services meeting countries’ needs?’ policy brief launched today!
Available to download here
In the past three years tropical forested countries across the world have taken
important institutional, policy, legal and piloting steps to become ‘ready’ for
REDD+. Capacity building is a key component of this REDD+ readiness process and is backed by a huge investment of time and money from a large number of organizations, government agencies, communities and individuals. There has been a massive increase in capacity building during this short three year period, which begs the question: Do the organizations providing such services have the competencies to fully meet countries’ REDD+ readiness needs?
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تا چندی پیش فقط سراغ انتشار دهندگان و به اصطلاح آلوده کننده های دنیا را می گرفتند. حالا نمی گویم ضعیف تر عمل می کنند بلکه بر عکس به این نتیجه رسیده اند که برای کند کردن روند تغییر اقلیم راه های بسیار بسیار زیادی وجود دارد که چه بسا کارآمدتر و عملیاتی تر از راه های شناخته شده و مطرح امروزی هم باشد ولی مغفول مانده اند. یکی از این دست راه ها رویکرد مدیریت اکوسیستمی است که در گزارش 30 صفحه ای برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد به اختصار از منافع و روش آن سخن به میان آورده است.
The purpose of this policy series is to contribute to the climate change discourse by demonstrating the key role that Ecosystem Management has in underpinning climate change adaptation and transitioning into a green economy and illustrating the advantages of this approach.
The paper focuses on what to do in the transition period of the next 20 years after Rio+20. It highlights a key solutions using the Ecosystem management approach to tackle the many pressures and climate change challenges we are facing. Considering the fundamental basis of life on earth, it is inconceivable that we cannot progress without maintaining the health of earth's diverse ecosystems. It thus falls to all people as individuals, communities, the private sector and representatives of nations, to face up to the challenges ahead and utilise the best available solutions with commitment and understanding, to ensure a stable transition to a climate resilient Green Economy.
Enjoy the read
Richard
Richard Munang (Ph.D)
Policy Advisor
United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
P.O. Box 30552 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Email: Richard.Munang@unep.org
www.unep.org
www.ccdare.org
برنامه محیط زیست سازمان ملل یا UNEP چندی است که تاکید ویژه ای روی ارزش اقتصادی خدمات زیست محیطی دارد و در پروژه های زیست محیطی مختلف هم بحثی به نام پرداخت عوارض بابت بهره مندی از خدمات زیست محیطی یا Payments
(for Environmental Services (PES مطرح گردیده است که پروژه منارید MENARID اولین جایگاه برای آزمون این مقوله در کشور می باشد. برنامه محیط زیست ملل متحد 17 گزارش در این زمینه دارد که می توانید از آدرس ذیل آن ها را داونلود کنید.
The UNEP Ecosystem Management sub-program helps countries use the ecosystem approach to enhance human well-being and adapt to challenges of climate change. We are pleased to provide a forum for disseminating working papers reflecting the broad range of research activities on economics of ecosystem services. Papers in this series are not formal publications of UNEP. They are circulated to encourage thought and discussion and make results of some ecosystem services economics related research available to other economists, scientists and policy makers working in this area.
To download our publications: http://depi.unep.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133&Itemid=126
List of Working Papers:
1. Revisiting the Relationship between Equity and Efficiency in Payments for Environmental Services
2. Making Payments for Ecosystem Services Work
3. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Benefits, Values, Space and Time
4. Managing Trade-offs in Ecosystem Services
5. The “Ecosystem Service Framework”: A Critical Assessment
6. Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Water Harvesting in Burkina Faso
7. Accounting for Regulating Services
8. Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Coastal Ecosystems: Asian and European Perspectives
9. European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
10. Institution and Ecosystem Functions: The Case of Keti Bunder, Pakistan
11. Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from Payments for Environmental Services and Conditional Cash Transfer Experiences in Developing Countries
12. Are The Amounts of Payments for Environmental Services Enough to Contribute to Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Developing Countries?
13. Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Context of Ecosystem Services for Human Well-Being: A Multidisciplinary Critique
14. Exploring the Potential of Payments for Ecosystem Services for in-situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation
15. The Precautionary Principle and Global Environmental Change
16. The provision of international environmental public goods
17. Paying for International Environmental Public Goods
سالانه میلیون ها پرنده در اثر برق گرفتگی و برخورد با خطوط برق تلف می شوند. در گزارشی که اخیراً توسط سازمان ملل تهیه و ارائه شده است ضمن بررسی وضعیت فوق راه کارهایی فنی - اجرایی و سیاسی برای کنترل این وضعیت ارائه کرده است که یکی از آن ها انتقال خطوط برق در زیر خاک و دیگری استفاده از ابزاری که به پرندگان آسیب نرساند.
UN REVIEW PROVIDES GUIDELINES TO STOP MILLIONS OF BIRD DEATHS DUE TO POWER LINES
New York, Nov 25 2011
4:05PM
Millions of birds die each year through electrocution or fatal collisions with power lines, according to a United Nations review which provides solutions to protect them, while calling on governments to implement measures to address this issue.
The review, comprising of two reports which were presented this week at a UN wildlife conference in Bergen, Norway, focuses on the African-Eurasian region, but provide guidelines that can be executed at a global level.
According a <"http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2659&ArticleID=8957&l=en">press release issued yesterday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), power lines constitute one of the major causes of unnatural death for birds. In the African-Eurasian region alone, hundreds of thousands of birds die annually from electrocution and tens of millions of others from collisions with power lines.
Large birds migrating across the region such as pelicans, storks, flamingos, cranes and owls seem to be more affected, and the review warns that their populations may be significantly declining, which could lead to local or regional extinction. In South Africa, for example, 12 per cent of blue cranes – the country’s national bird – are dying every year due to collisions with power lines.
According to the review, electrocution generally happens in open habitats lacking natural perches or nesting trees for birds such as steppes, deserts and wetlands. But collisions occur in every habitat type in the region, especially in areas where large numbers of birds congregate, such as migration corridors or small islands.
The reports present recommendations for governments, electric power companies, and conservation organizations to reduce the impact of power grids on birds.
“The international guidelines present a number of appropriate legislative and policy actions and some creative technical measures on how to mitigate and reduce the vast number of unnatural bird mortalities caused by electricity power grids,” said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
According to UNEP, the most effective measure to avoid both electrocution and collision is underground cabling, which has already been done in countries such as the Netherlands and in certain parts of Belgium, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and Germany. However, this method is expensive, making it unfeasible to implement in the entire African-Eurasian region.
Other less expensive measures include insulating dangerous electric parts of the lines and installing bird-friendly perching and nesting devices as well as markers or bird flight diverters in overhead wires.
“Electrocution of birds is not just a conservation issue. It also has economic and financial consequences, as power interruptions and the resulting need for reparations from outages are often caused by bird electrocutions,” said Ms. Mrema.
زمانی برای انتقال تجارب گریزی نبود الا رفتن و دیدن اما امروز از همان محل کار و منزل می شود به اطلاعات بسیار با ارزشی دست یافت و زحمت سفر را به جان نخرید. هر چند هتوز برخی بر این باورند که باید رفت و از نزدیک موضوعات و مباحث را لمس کرد. به هر حال برخی بر این باورند که برای کسب تجربه و دانش باید سراغ کشورهای توسعه یافته رفت اما من بر عکس در مطالعاتی که داشته و دارم عمدتاً به طور همزمان هر دو را پیش می برم. امروز با گزارشی برخورد کردم در مورد وضعیت توسعه پایدار در کشور پرو برایم جالب آمد و بد ندیدم از این تارنما در خصوص نشر آن اطلاع رسانی نمایم.
از جمله موضوعاتی که در این گزارش مورد بررسی قرار گرفته می توان به محدودیت های منابع مالی، شهرنشینی بیش از اندازه و عدم ثبات سیاسی. در خصوص بخش کشاورزی هم موضوعاتی مانند تخریب جنگل، بیابان زایی و کاربرد سموم مورد بررسی قرار گرفته اند. شما می توانید از اینجا فایل را داونلود کنید
Sustainable Development in South America: A case study of the Agricultural Sector of Peru.
http://onsustainability.com/2011/11/14/sustainability-journal-volume-7-issue-4-now-available/
The article:
-Examines the factors that hinder the adoption of sustainable development practices in the agricultural sector of Peru such as financial resource limitations, hyper-urbanisation and political instability.
- Offers an insight on the issues affecting the agricultural sector of Peru: deforestation, land degradation and pesticide pollution
Best wishes,
Mariaelena
Abstract
This paper explores the scope of sustainable development practices in South America with a special focus on sustainable development practices in the agricultural sector of Peru. The agricultural sector plays a key role in the economy of Peru with a contribution of around 8.2 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product.
Concerns over the unsustainable nature of the agricultural sector of Peru in
recent years has raised questions as to what are the underlying factors preventing the sector from producing sustainable agricultural products.
Consequent to this, the agricultural sector of Peru has faced criticism over deforestation, land degradation and pesticide pollution. The four identified factors that hinder the adoption of sustainable practices in the agricultural sector of Peru have been identified: financial resource limitations, environmental degradation, hyper-urbanisation and political instability. This article concludes that with possible factors drawn together to resolve these challenges, the end result will yield economic well-being, social justice, and environmental conservation in the entire country.
به تازگی یک سمن ژاپنی اقدام به محاسبه هزینه تولید برق در ژاپن نموده است که خلاصه گزارش به زبان انگلیسی منتشر شده است که عین خبر ارائه شده است:
In October, Japanese non-governmental panel on energy scenarios, which was established in August, published its first report “Assessment Report on Costs of Electricity Generation”.
We now have a English page, which includes presentation slides and press release. (full report is only available in Japanese)
Currently in the Japanese government, costs of electricity generation is under review in the process of reviewing overall energy policy, and the cost analysis would affect future energy choices.
But it seems it tends to conclude that nuclear is still not expensive even after the 311 Fukushima accidents.
The report compared various cost estimates for nuclear power, including new ones published after March 11, 2011, and analyzed their problems. The report also considered factors that had been downplayed or externalized in the existing cost estimates.
You can find more information from here.
http://www.facebook.com/enepane?sk=app_186920978034936
Best regards,
Kimiko
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در این گزارش که اخیراً توسط دولت استرالیا منتشر شده است تاثیر تغییر اقلیم بر 15 کشور حوزه اقیانوس آرام بررسی شده است. برای اطلاعات بیشتر به مطلب ذیل مراجعه کنید:
New research providing critical information about how climate change is affecting 14 Pacific island countries and East Timor has been released today by the Australian Government’s Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP).
The two volume peer-reviewed report: Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research is now available from www.pacificclimatechangescience.org
The report has involved three years of research by Australian scientists working in collaboration with national meteorological services across the Pacific.
The findings will be presented at COP 17 in Durban at a side-event that will be jointly hosted by the Australian Government and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme on Tuesday 6 December 2011 from 1pm to 3pm in the ‘Island Pavilion’.
The first volume of the report provides a regional overview the second volume provides individual reports for each of the 15 countries. This includes climate projections for Cook Islands, East Timor,Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
A new interactive online tool called Pacific Climate Futures (www.pacificclimatefutures.net) has also be released today. It allows the user to explore future changes in various aspects of the climate including temperature, rainfall, wind, sunshine and humidity for 20-year averages around 2030, 2055 and 2090 under three greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.
The PCCSP is managed by with the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency in collaboration the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). This comprehensive science program is implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteoro logy and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
For more information or detail about the side-event contact:
Jill Rischbieth
Communication Officer| Pacific Climate Change Science Program
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Phone: +61 3 9239 4463 | Mobile: 0449 534 731
Jill.Rischbieth@csiro.au | www.csiro.au
Private Bag 1, Aspendale VIC 3195 Australia
آژانس ارزیابی زیست محیطی هلند و گزارش جدید در مورد سیاست های بین المللی اقلیم منتشر نموده است که اولی: سیاست اقلیمی بعد از کیوتو و دومی چنگال ها در راه - راه های جایگزین برای سیاست های بین المللی اقلیم و اثرات آن ها بر هلند.
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) has just released two new reports on international climate policies:
1. “Climate policy after Kyoto – Analytical insights into key issues in the climate negotiations”
2. "Forks in the Road - Alternative routes for international climate policies and their implications for the Netherlands" Summary Report "Climate Policy after Kyoto":Limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is the objective agreed on in international climate negotiations. Due to upward revisions of greenhouse gas emission projections in emerging economies, such as India, Brazil, Mexico and China, achieving this objective has become more
difficult.
The report can be downloaded from:
http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2011/climate-policy-after-kyoto-%E2%80%93-analytical-insights-into-key-issues-in-the-climate-negotiations
Summary
Report "Forks in the Road":Alternative routes for international climate policies, such as have been proposed in recent years by several parties, may benefit societal support for these policies worldwide. The Netherlands could make clever use of these proposals for its own international climate strategy.
The report can be downloaded from:
http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2011/forks-in-the-road-alternative-routes-for-international-climate-policies
ایمیلی دریافت کردم که کتاب کنترل تغییر اقلیم چاپ 2010 دانشگاه کمبریج را معرفی می کرد بد ندیدم آن را اطلاع رسانی کنم. این کتاب در 376 صفحه و 11 فصل تهیه شده است. می توانید آن را از اینجا داونلود کنید. فصل های کتاب عبارتند از:
- Preface
- 1: Climate change and its impacts: a short summary
- 2: Greenhouse gas emissions
- 3: Keeping climate change within sustainable limits: where to draw the line?
- 4: Development first
- 5: Energy supply
- 6: Transportation
- 7: Buildings
- 8: Industry and waste management
- 9: Land use, agriculture and forestry
- 10: How does it fit together?
- 11: Policies and measures
- 12: International climate change agreements
- Index
Dear Climate List colleagues,
Confused about the current climate debate? Studying sustainable energy, transportation, land-use or climate change policy? Needing a concise overview of how to bring climate change under control? Here is a useful resource for you.
It is my pleasure to announce that Cambridge University Press has agreed to allow free PDF downloads of my book “Controlling Climate Change” (2010) via my official book website. Please go to www.controllingclimatechange.info and let your friends know as well.
A review of the book, from the British Royal Meteorological Society's “Weather” journal: ”I can summarize this book in one word: excellent. It ought to be required reading for anyone interested in understanding what humanity can do to limit climate change.” (December 2010)
Regards,
Dr. Bert Metz
Fellow, European Climate Foundation
فائو دستورالعملی برای کنترل آفات و بیماری های جنگلی تدوین نموده است که می توانید این گزارش صفحه ای را از این آدرس داونلود کنید.
سالانه 35 میلیون هکتار جنگل در اثر بیماریهای ناشی از آفات از بین می روند که رقم قابل توجهی است و ضروری است کشورها در زمینه کنترل سریع آفات و بیماری ها اقدام نمایند. بخشی از این بیماری ها ناشی از تغییر اقلیم می باشند و بخشی به دلیل افزایش روند تجارت محصولات چوبی، بذر و نهال درختان می باشد.
UN GUIDE SEEKS TO PREVENT SPREAD OF FOREST-DAMAGING PESTS
New York, Nov 10 2011 12:05PM
A guide published today by the United Nations aims to help countries prevent forest-damaging pests from spreading to new areas as a result of climate change and growing global trade.
The <"http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2080e/i2080e.pdf">guide, put together by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was presented by the agency in Beijing, during the Second Asia-Pacific Forestry Week.
“Due to climate change, previously inhospitable sites can become suitable for ‘alien’ pests that are accidentally transported through international trade in wood products, seeds or nursery plants – as well as trade in other commodities packaged with wood materials,” said Eduardo Rojas-Briales, FAO’s Assistant Director-General for Forestry.
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گزارش توسعه انسانی سال 2011 توسط برنامه عمران ملل متحد UNDP منتشر شد. برای دریافت گزارش کامل اینجا را کلیک کنید.این گزارش 185 صفحه ای با عنوان " پایداری و برابری: زندگی بهتر برای همگان" تهیه شده است.
گزارش فوق در 5 فصل ذیل تدوین شده است:
- چرا پایداری و برابری؟
- الگوها و روندهای توسعه انسانی؛
- تعقیب و پیگیری اثرات - درک ارتباطات؛
- هم افزایی مثبت - استراتژی های برنده برای محیط زیست، برابری و توسعه انسانی؛
- افزایش چالس های سیاسی.
گزارش فوق حاوی جداول، نمودارها و نقشه های بسیاری زیادی می باشد.
NEWS RELEASE
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حتما در جریان انتقاداتی که به مصرف بی رویه کودهای شیمیایی می شود قرار دارید. اگر چه زمانی ناآگاهانه و با هدف افزایش تولید رو به سوی مصرف کود های شیمیایی آوردیم اما امروز که به آن حد از آگاهی رسیده ایم که کودهای شیمیایی مضرات فوق العاده بر اکوسیستم وارد می نمایند دیگر باید با احتیاط بیش تری نسبت به مصرف این کودها اقدام نمود. شاید در کشوری مانند ایران که سیاست های حمایتی دولت از کشاورزان در جهت کاهش هزینه های تولید است و برای کود هم یارانه ای می پردازد سخن گفتن از کاهش مصرف کود بی معنی باشد چون سیاست ها در جهت تشویق مصرف کود است.
اما به هر حال باید گفت و گفت تا شاید گوش شنوایی باشد در جهت حذف کودهای شیمیایی و جایگزینی آن ها با مواد دوست دار طبیعت مانند کمپوست و کودهای حیوانی.
علی ایحال گزارشی از طریق خانم دکتر رضوی مدیر عامل سنستا دریافت کردم که در شماره آگوست نشریه PLoS Biology منتشر شده و می توانید از اینجا به آن دسترسی یابید.در این مقاله ضمن بررسی روند مصرف کود در آمریکا، چین و هندوستان و جهان، ارزیابی ای از منافع و مضار اقتصادی و زیست محیطی ارائه داده و در پایان هم چند راه کار ساده برای کاهش مصرف کود نیتروژنه بیان نموده است.
U.S. CARBON EMISSIONS DOWN 7 PERCENT
IN FOUR YEARS:
Even Bigger Drops Coming
Lester R. Brown
لستر براون مدیرموسسه سیاست زمین در تازه نرین گزارش خود از کاهش 7 درصد انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای در ایالات متحده آمریکا طی 4 سال گذشته می گوید. وی همچنین خاطر نشان می نماید که احتمال کاهش بیش از این میزان هم وجود دارد. گزارش را می خوانید:
www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update101
Earth Policy Release
Plan B Update
November 2 , 2011
EMBARGO 12 NOON EDT
Between 2007 and 2011, carbon emissions from coal use in the United States dropped 10 percent. During the same period, emissions from oil use dropped 11 percent. In contrast, carbon emissions from natural gas use increased by 6 percent. The net effect of these trends was that U.S. carbon emissions dropped 7 percent in four years. And this is only the beginning.
The initial fall in coal and oil use was triggered by the economic downturn, but now powerful new forces are reducing the use of both. For coal, the dominant force is the Beyond Coal campaign, an impressive national effort coordinated by the Sierra Club involving hundreds of local groups that oppose coal because of its effects on human health.
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اطلاعات و اخبار منتشره توسط سایت Rio+20 یا همان اجلاس توسعه پایدار سازمان ملل حاکی از آن است که اجلاس فوق در شهر ریو برزیل و طی روزهای 4 الی 6 ژوئن 2012 برگزار خواهد شد و تا آن زمان هم 215 روز بیش تر نمانده است. در گوشه و کنار این کره خاکی هم تا دلت بخواهد جلسات آمادگی، هم فکری و هم اندیشی در سطح ملی، منطقه ای و بین المللی برگزار شده و برگزار خواهد شد خلاصه باید از فرصت ها استفاده نمود!!!!
اما اگر می خواهید بدانید که در طی این دو دهه ای که از اجلاس ریو یا کنفرانس سران زمین در سال 1992 گذشته چه بر سر این زمین و منابعش آمده است به این گزارش 111 صفحه ای که توسط یونپ یا برنامه محیط زیست سازمان ملل مراجعه نمائید. در این گزارش اطلاعات زیادی جمع آوری
آدرس لینک آن هم عبارتست از:
http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf
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توسعه پایدار انسانی هم بحثی پر مخاطب که مجله Mother Pelican این مقوله را دنبال می کند در شماره نوامبر 2011 آن می خوانید:
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
The November 2011 issue has been posted:
Editorial Essay - Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change
Articles
Remarks on the Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales Toward Sustainability, by the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
The numbers behind the numbers: Meet your 7 billion neighbors, by Lisa Hymas
Peak Oil: A Chance to Change the World, by Richard Heinberg
The Market Is Lying: Why We Must Tax Carbon, Not Subsidize It, by Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin
Resource Scarcity, Fair Shares, and Development, by Alula Berhe Kidani
The Masculinity Conspiracy - Part 2: History, by Joseph Gelfer
Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Mean to Adapt to Climate Change in Madagascar , by Pauline Buffle and the Ecosystem & Livelihoods Adaptation Network
Dehumanization of 'Muslims' and the Fear We Live With, by Farjana Mahbuba
Supplements
Advances in Sustainable Development
Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
Status of Gender Balance in Society
Status of Gender Balance in Religion
Sincerely,
Luis
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

کتابچه راهنمای تبادل اطلاعات جوانان در زمینه تغییر اقلیم و شیوه زندگی اولین راهنما از سری راهنماهای موضوعی ابتکار تبادل افکار جوانان یا YouthXchange Initiativeمی باشد. راهنماهای موضوعی به چالش ها، فرصت ها، اقدامات مناسب و مطالعات موردی در زمینه چالش های جهانی توجه دارد. راهنمای فوق برای کشف و درک ارتباطات میان تغییر اقلیم شیوه زندگی راه اندازی و تهیه شده است و به جوانان کمک می کند در شناخت و انتخاب شیوه ای زندگی پایدارتر. جمعیت هدف این برنامه افراد گروه سنی 24-15 سال و افرادی که با این گروه سر و کار دارند مانند معلم ها و مربی های کشورهای توسعه یافته و در حال توسعه می باشد.
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بالاخره دیروز آخرین روز دهمین نشست اعضا متعاهد کنوانسیون مقابله با بیابان زایی و تقلیل اثرات خشکسالی هم برگزار شد. انصافاً جلسات پرمشغله و خسته کننده ای بوده و امیدوارم نتایج این نشست مفید فایده برای جوامع محلی باشد.

امروز خبرنامه ای دریافت کردم که مروری داشت بر کل این نشست که می توانید از اینجا اطلاعات مختصری به همراه تصاویر این نشست را ملاحظه نمائید.
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80 ٪ در شرایط بدى زندگى میکنند
70 ٪ بیسواد و کمسواد (تحصیل نکرده)
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