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Published on: 10 August 2020
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), through the CPA Small Branches network and in partnership with UNESCO hosted a webinar about: The Role of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Legislators and…
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Published on: 27 July 2020
Human life depends on the health of our ecosystems and the services they provide, from supplying food and water, to regulating diseases and the climate. Threats to the biodiversity that…
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Published on: 17 July 2020
A virtual meeting for the members of the Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators (COW), also known as Promote Pollinators, was held on 14 July 2020. The COW meeting was…
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Published on: 9 July 2020
“The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. Today, however, despite extraordinary advances in development of…
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Published on: 18 June 2020
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis and a restriction on social gatherings in Trinidad and Tobago, the Environmental Policy and Planning Division within the Ministry of Planning and Development…
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Published on: 22 May 2020
Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and…
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Published on: 30 March 2020
In the framework of its activities to enhance capacities in its partner countries, the CEBioS program organized two training workshops about the ‘Measurement, Reporting and Verification’ (MRV) concept for biodiversity….
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Published on: 28 March 2020
Following the Regional Trialogue for Anglophone Africa on “Bright Spots for Land Degradation Neutrality, Pollinators and Food Security” held on 28-20 May, 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya, Nigeria has demonstrated exemplary…
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Published on: 13 March 2020
Land degradation is one of the world’s greatest environmental challenges. Africa is particularly vulnerable with two thirds of its land surface estimated to be already degraded to some degree, affecting... Read More
Published on: 31 January 2020
The Annual Meeting of African Science Academies (AMASA-15) was held on 12-16 November 2019 in Accra, Ghana. The event brought together over 100 representatives of Africa’s science academies as well…
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