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Transforming the food system to feed tomorrow's world
Supporting sustainable rice production protects the global commons, increases farmers’ incomes and is good for our business
The delicate ecosystem that allows our planet and its people to thrive is under pressure as never before. The UK Government recently became the first in the world to declare a “climate change emergency”.
Pricing carbon will help us better deal with climate change
Nearly 1,400 companies are adopting an internal carbon price so as to future-proof prosperity
The impact of climate disruption is already visible worldwide: irreversible damage to the oceans, more floods and prolonged droughts, which are causing issues for food production.
Methane explosions in Siberia due to thawing permafrost; sinking villages in Alaska; an increase in extreme weather events – we have a big problem.
A new green revolution can fix our relationship with the Earth by 2030
Extraordinary collaboration is succeeding where national and international government action alone has so far failed
For years, big environmental problems were for governments and international organisations to solve. But despite all their efforts the state of the global environmental commons has worsened.
We can turn the tragedy of the global commons into an opportunity
The global commons are being pushed to breaking point, so coalitions are forming to protect them and to build lasting prosperity
My country, Japan, was long dependent on fishing. In the past, every fisherman in a coastal community would be tempted to catch as much as possible. When everyone did so, the fish – the village's common shared resource – disappeared. The result? Poverty and misery for everyone.
Reducing deforestation in commodity supply chains as temperatures rise
In recent years, many major producers and buyers of agricultural commodities have made ambitious commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. Yet, it is now clear that even if they meet their own commitments, deforestation will continue and many of the other underlying environmental and social challenges will also remain.
WEF Impact Summit highlights need to secure the global commons
How can leaders propel action to secure the global commons now? This was the central question for one of the headline sessions, Environmental Stewardship in the Sprint to 2020, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York this week.
The international community is engaged in a “Sprint to 2020” spanning across multiple environmental agendas that will culminate or have important milestones in 2020 (see below).
Integration: to solve complex environmental problems
Environmental challenges are complex and interlinked, not only in themselves but also with social and economic issues. Better human well-being, for example, poverty reduction, improved human health, energy access and economic growth, are linked to ecological factors. Solutions for one problem can lead to unintended negative consequences, or create new environmental or socio-economic problems. For example, increasing food production in ways that deplete soils, waste water, kill pollinators and increase desertification and deforestation, would eventually prove self-limiting.
Novel Entities and the GEF
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) needs to be aware of the opportunities and potential benefits that new entities and technologies can offer in delivering global environmental benefits and should be mindful of the potential for new entities to become major global environmental problems. This report presents the findings of a study commissioned by the STAP, and implemented by the Environmental Law Institute, to identify novel entities of relevance to the GEF.
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