To encourage broader participation in conservation efforts, the Green Development Initiative (hosted by Earthmind) is piloting a public registry, international standard and best-practice toolkit for Verified Conservation Areas (VCAs). The online VCA Registry facilitates public recognition and support for verified conservation action on the ground.
All areas in compliance with...
WiRES (Women in Renewable Energy Sector) is a project about women and green jobs. It was implemented in 2009 and 2010 by Adapt, the Association for International and Comparative Studies in Labour Law and Industrial Relations, in cooperation with its partners: the University of Szeged (Hungary) and the Union for...
The proposed global environmental objective of this project is to conserve globally significant biodiversity and enhance local livelihoods in Panama through improved management of protected areas and mainstreaming biodiversity-friendly management practices in their buffer zones.
WAVES as a means to implement the NCA commitment. The overall goal of the Global Partnership for Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) is to support partner countries to achieve sustainable development by systematically integrating values for natural capital in their national accounts systems, and, through the national...
The PDO is to lay the analytical groundwork to enable the Municipal Government of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Rio Prefeitura) to develop an ambitious, cross-sectoral, low carbon / climate change mitigation program over the next two to four years - with longer term goals and activities even beyond...
The objectives of the National Ganga River Basin Project for India are to support the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in: (a) building capacity of its nascent operational-level institutions, so that they can manage the long-term Ganga clean-up and conservation program; and (b) implementing a diverse set of demonstrative...
The development objective of the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment Project is to improve air quality and safe mobility in Dhaka in Bangladesh, through the implementation of demonstration initiatives in urban transport and brick making.
The objective of the Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project for India is to improve energy efficiency of selected coal-fired power generation units through renovation and modernization (R&M) and improved operations and maintenance (O&M). The global environmental objective of the project is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficient...
This project was conceived in 2006-2007 to work with the government of the Republic of Montenegro to overcome the main barriers that had previously limited the development of and investment in the small hydropower technology. To attain this goal several steps had to be fulfilled: 1) develop streamlined and transparent...
Between 1996 and March 2011, the Rura Energy Development Programme (REDP) enabled more than 57,000 households to light their homes, cook their food and power their enterprises from sources of clean energy. This happened in the course of REDP developing a successful community-managed model for extending access to electricity in...