On 16 April, the Equator Initiative and The Nature Conservancy held a briefing and roundtable discussion on emerging narratives and entry points for environmental sustainability and community-based action in the post-2015 development agenda.
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The latest in the Equator Initiative series of Community Dialogues, the Community Palli (8-17 October) brought together Equator Prize winners from eleven countries, positioning local advocacy and knowledge sharing within the larger policy dialogues on poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP 11, in Hyderabad, India.
The Equator Initiative convened a five-day dialogue during the IUCN Fifth World Conservation Congress Forum, in Jeju, Korea – the Community Ma-eul (7-11 September) featured a series of workshops led by partner organisations focusing on the human rights dimensions of conservation, and particularly those relevant to local and indigenous communities.
While countries around the world strive to meet their Millennium Development Goal targets, the process of developing new goals for beyond 2015 has already begun.
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Representatives from two Equator Prize winner organizations recently participated in two conferences on issues concerning the 2015 MDGs, both of which are part of an ongoing series of global... Read More >>
Following the success of the Equator Prize 2012 Award Ceremony, held as part of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, Equator Prize winners have also ... Read More >>
Chalalán Eco-lodge serves as a model for community-based ecotourism in Bolivia, as an example of the effectiveness of this low-impact commercial acti...
