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Your meal can make a difference
Customers who dined at New York restaurant Il Buco on April 22 probably don’t imagine how far their generous donations went. Thousands of kilometres away, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Payaguaje family benefitted from this support and were able to establish a community-based tourism initiative. …
29 Sep 2009 | News story
Experts at Fingertips
The free Ecosystem Services Experts Directory is on line. This public online directory allows business leaders, journalists, and governments to locate and contact specialists in ecosystem services. …
29 Sep 2009 | News story
Holcim and IUCN in Vietnam
IUCN and Holcim in Vietnam partnered on two projects in early 2009. One project increased awareness for local community on environment and waste management and the other project dealt with improving karst management. This IUCN and Holcim Vietnam partnership is linked to a global agreement to develop a biodiversity policy for the entire Holcim group. …
29 Sep 2009 | News story
Danone: Market for Wet Carbon
The partnership between IUCN, Ramsar and the Danone Group is underway. The aim: to leverage carbon markets for the benefit of wetland ecosystems and communities …
29 Sep 2009 | News story
IUCN and Philips save energy
The new IUCN Conservation Centre will have state of the art energy efficiency lighting solutions. Thanks to Philips’ collaboration with IUCN. …
29 Sep 2009 | News story
Value chain approach for industrial biofuels
A multi-sector group led by Shell and IUCN has been created to address implementation barriers for more sustainable biofuels. …
20 Sep 2009 | News story
Biodiversity indicators and assessments need greater investment
For the world’s governments to understand adequately how their actions and policies are impacting the planet’s species and ecosystems, more investment is needed in the set of biodiversity indicators that has been developed to measure these impacts. This is the conclusion of a review published today in the journal Science by a group of the leading scientists and organisations working on this issue. …
18 Sep 2009 | News story
Expertos en medio ambiente con sólo tocar un botón
Ya está disponible en Internet un Directorio de Expertos en Servicios del Ecosistema gratuito. Periodistas, líderes empresariales y gobiernos pueden utilizar el directorio para buscar cientos de expertos en medio ambiente de organizaciones como la UICN, la Sociedad Ecológica Americana y los grupos de trabajo de la Evaluación de Ecosistemas del Milenio. … | English | French
15 Sep 2009 | News story
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Red Sea, White Coral?
What is the potential effect of climate change on Red Sea coral reefs and tourism in Egypt? Kuoni, HEPCA, IUCN and local tour operators are working in partnership to address this issue. …
02 Sep 2009 | News story
Sustainable water management reaches top of global business agenda
The future of many businesses depend on the sustainability of water resources, which are increasingly under pressure. Consumer awareness and investors' increased scrutiny of corporate water risks have resulted in stronger expectations that companies should reveal their ‘water performance'. …
19 Aug 2009 | News story
