by Blue Forests Project | Mar 22, 2017 | Exposure News
The global collaboration between the Global Environment Facility, UN Environment, GRID-Arendal and partners has proven valuable in helping nations realize the climate change adaptation and mitigation benefits from the protection and restoration of coastal and marine...
by Blue Forests Project | Mar 21, 2017 | Exposure News
19 March 1911, marked the first International Women’s Day where over one million women and men demanded equal rights for women to vote and hold public office without discrimination on the job. During the years of World War I, celebration of this day had been in a form...
by Blue Forests Project | Mar 14, 2017 | Exposure News
The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets the roadmap for integrated management approaches of natural systems, through the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), including oceans and coasts, the focus of Goal 14. The SDGs have been developed as a means to...
by Blue Forests Project | Nov 14, 2016 | Exposure News
GRID-Arendal helps draw attention to importance of coastal 'blue carbon' ecosystemsMarrakesh — Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses are being highlighted at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting now underway in...
by Blue Forests Project | Nov 11, 2016 | Exposure News
The concept of 'blue carbon' has been widely recognised and accepted as a concept that can potentially assist in nations' climate change mitigation measures. As in the COP21 in Paris, 'blue carbon' will be a key focus for plenty of events...
by Blue Forests Project | Nov 1, 2016 | Exposure News
In historic agreement, nations recognize the role of whales as ecosystem engineers helping to address the global climate challenge.Arendal, Norway, November 1, 2016 – Protecting whale populations has an important role to play in fighting global warming.This was...
by Blue Forests Project | Nov 1, 2016 | Exposure News
GAZI BAY, Kenya, Sept 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For fishing communities on Kenya's southern coast, felling mangrove trees to make boats has long been a part of life.But traditional attitudes toward the mangroves are shifting, as communities become...
by Blue Forests Project | Nov 1, 2016 | Exposure News
In Senegal and other developing countries, multinational companies are investing in programs to restore mangrove forests and other wetlands that sequester carbon. But critics say these initiatives should not focus on global climate goals at the expense of the local...
by Blue Forests Project | Sep 8, 2016 | Exposure News
Mangroves forests across the globe host myriads of species that live and thrive along the coastal ecosystems. One of them is the dugong. Our project partner in Abu Dhabi, Jane Glavan, tells us more of these magnificent creatures.The forefathers of UAE owed their...
by Blue Forests Project | Aug 23, 2016 | Exposure News
Mikoko Pamoja, a co-finance project of the Blue Forests Project recently provided community based mangrove carbon offsetting for the travel and organization of the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC4). Mikoko Pamoja is being replicated and up-scaled in...
by Blue Forests Project | Aug 19, 2016 | Exposure News
This week we feature a update from our project partner in Conservation International Ecuador, Belén Vallejo, Communication Coordinator.Given the importance of mangroves for sustainable development and particularly for CI Ecuador's work, July 26 – recently...
by Blue Forests Project | Aug 8, 2016 | Exposure News
Silvestrum just finalised its pre-feasibility assessment for a blue carbon project in the Zambezi Delta, Mozambique. The assessment was commissioned by WWF Mozambique and formed part of the activities under the framework of the GEF Blue Forests program.Mozambique...
