Environment

Global, Inclusive Partnerships Essential for the Future Sustainability of our Oceans and Seas

By Lisa Stadelbauer
Throughout history, oceans, seas, lakes and rivers have provided life and livelihoods to people around the world. Today, they are a multi-trillion-dollar global economy supporting hundreds of millions of people and helping drive economic growth in all corners of the world.

Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America

By Daniel Gutman
Only 18 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean live in rural areas, but these are increasingly hotbeds of poverty, and climate change is playing a major role in this phenomenon.

How Australia Sustainably Manages the World’s Last Wild Commercial Fishery of Pearl Oysters

By Neena Bhandari
Australia’s remote north-western Kimberley coast, where the Great Sandy Desert meets the sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, is home to the giant Pinctada maxima or silver-lipped pearl oyster shells that produce the finest and highly-prized Australian South Sea Pearls.

The Start of an Important Global Conversation on the Blue Economy

By Jonathan Wilkinson
This November, Canada, along with Kenya and Japan, is proud to host the world’s first global conference focused on the world’s ocean economy: the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

Expectations High for First Global Blue Economy Conference

By Miriam Gathigah and Robert Kibet
In a matter of days the world’s blue economy actors and experts will converge in Nairobi, Kenya for the first ever global conference on sustainable blue economy.

Q&A: How to Transition One of the Fastest-Growing Economies in the World to a Green Growth Model

By Pascal Laureyn
Driven by garment exports, tourism and construction, Cambodia has sustained an average growth rate of 7.7 percent between 1995 to 2017, making this Southeast Asian nation the sixth fastest-growing economy in the world.

Advocating for a Blue Economy Investment Facility

By Terry Waghorn
I recently connected with Felix Dodds and a colleague of his Chris Tomkins about the development around how the Blue Economy prior to the Kenya Government's international conference (26-28 November) on the subject. Felix is a global sustainable development leader who has worked on sustainable development for more than two decades observing and participating in international development meetings, including the negotiations on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which the Blue Economy is part of and asked for his take on why and how the business and finance community should get behind them.

NGOs Call for Disinvestments in Biodiversity Destruction

By Rabiya Jaffery
A discussion held earlier this week at the ongoing Convention of Biodiversity’s (CBD) Conference of Parties in Egypt highlighted that grants to curb deforestation in the Amazon are not enough if they are accompanied with investments that increase the loss of biodiversity.

Solar Energy Drives Social Development in Brazil’s Favelas

By Mario Osava
"We can't work just to pay the electric bill," complained José Hilario dos Santos, president of the Residents Association of Morro de Santa Marta, a favela or shantytown embedded in Botafogo, a traditional middle-class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.

The Blue Economy for the Blue Planet

By Cameron Diver
We live on a “blue planet” where water covers around 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. Without water we would simply not survive as a species. As we strive to find pathways to and take action for inclusive sustainable development, we must ensure that our ocean, our seas, rivers, lakes, waterways and wetlands, together with their invaluable biodiversity, are preserved, sustainably used and integrated into development programming.

The Blue Economy – A New Frontier for Small Island Developing States

By Cyrus Rustomjee
The blue economy—a concept and economic model that balances economic development with equity and environmental protection, and one that uses marine resources to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own—is not a new idea.

Improved Husbandry Practices Boosts Aquaculture in Kenya

By Justus Wanzala
Despite the humid late October midday weather in Kisumu County near the shores of Lake Victoria, Jane Kisia is busy walking around her fish ponds feeding her fish. As she rhythmically throws handfuls of pellets into the ponds, located within her homestead, the fish ravenously gobble them up.

Venture Capital Can Turbo Charge Growth in Emerging Markets

By Anna Shen
Global poverty is undoubtedly the most critical economic and moral challenge of the 21st century. While economists debate how to raise up the world’s poorest – the more than 800 million people living on less than US$1.25 a day.-- entrepreneurs are spurring innovation and growth in emerging markets.

Cuba’s Only Semiarid Region Reinvents Agriculture to Survive

By Ivet González
At a brisk pace, Marciano Calamato and Mireya Noa walk along the dry, yellow soil of their farm, where they even manage to grow onions in Cuba's unique semi-arid eastern region.

E-Commerce Giants Under Fire for Retailing Hazardous Mercury-Based Cosmetics

By Thalif Deen
A coalition of over 50 civil society organizations (CSOs), from more than 20 countries, have urged two of the world’s largest multi-billion dollar E-commerce retailers – Amazon and eBay – to stop marketing “dangerous and illegal mercury-based skin lightening creams.”

Kenya Looks to Lead the Way in Developing the Blue Economy’s Potential

By Ambassador Macharia Kamau
For many years now, the economic potential of the African continent has been discussed, promoted and hailed by everyone from economists to policymakers to world leaders – and with very good reason. After all, Africa is a vast, populous, developing continent with enormous natural and human resource riches and a raft of rapidly developing economies which are helping create prosperity and raise living standards and social opportunities through economic growth.

Earth’s Biodiversity: A Pivotal Meeting at a Pivotal Time

By Cristiana Pașca Palmer and Anne Larigauderie
The quality of the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink depend directly on the state of our biodiversity, which is now in severe jeopardy. We need a transformational change in our relationship with nature to ensure the sustainable future we want for ourselves and our children.

Q&A: All Sustainable Development Goals Relate in Some Way to the Oceans

By Carmen Arroyo
When Peter Thomson, the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, heard in 2010 there was going to be a 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, he knew he had to include the ocean question.

Using Data to Restore Land

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
A new landmark initiative aims to make quality data and tools available to the international community in order to combat an “existential crisis”: land degradation.

Northeast Nigeria: Urgent Need to Combat Deadly Cholera Outbreaks

By Janet Cherono
The number of people who have been affected by cholera in northeast Nigeria has increased to 10,000. The disease is spreading quickly in congested displacement camps with limited access to proper sanitation facilities.

Lack of Funds Prevent Ugandan Communities from Investing in Cage Aquaculture

By Wambi Michael
Colvince Mubiru had heard about cage fish farming on Uganda’s lakes. The small business owner decided to try his hand at it and spent USD8,000 to set up farming cages for Nile Tilapia on Lake Victoria, expecting to reap a huge profit. But just six months into his enterprise, he made huge losses.
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