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| 1 | | International Day for Biological Diversity 2011 - Forest Biodiversity 2011 is the International Year of Forests and forest biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day of Biodiversity (IDB). | 838 |
| 2 | | People & Planet Green League People & Planet’s Green League is the only comprehensive and independent league table of UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance. It is compiled annually by the UK’s largest student campaigning network, People & Planet. In 2011, 142 universities provided People & Planet and HESA with enough information to be entered into the league table. | 3348 |
| 3 | | Convention of Biological Diversity The Convention on Biological Diversity was inspired by the world community's growing commitment to sustainable development. It represents a dramatic step forward in the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. | 855 |
| 4 | | A Journey of a Thousand Miles: The State of Sustainability Leadership 2011 A Journey of a Thousand Miles: The State of Sustainability Leadership 2011 is CPSL’s new annual survey of the most significant issues, ideas and trends in the field of sustainability leadership. The book can be downloaded for free from the website. | 1058 |
| 5 | | Sustainable Development Conferences Worldwide Upcoming events in Sustainable Development Upcoming events in sustainable development and related fields | 1921 |
| 6 | | University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) The website of CPLS provides access to interesting resources about Sustainable Development. | 1018 |
| 7 | | Environmental Portal : Sustainable Development Sustainable development is the development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development rests on three pillars: economic performance and sustainable protection of natural and human environment, the socio-economic equity and social protection. | 893 |
| 8 | | Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence The SPCE will build capacity in sustainable procurement, develop capability in influencing supply chains, address process issues, develop measurement and monitoring tools and communicate a full understanding of CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts, in the specification, production, delivery, utilisation and disposal, of goods and services purchased by the Higher Education (HE) sector. | 746 |
| 9 | | Green skills and environmental awareness in VET Validation workshop In 2010, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) undertook research into current and future skills and training needs of employers for nine key occupations which will be affected by the development of the resource efficient and green economy. The project is aimed at eight European countries: Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the UK. | 715 |
| 10 | | Resources For Rethinking Resources for Rethinking is a project developed by Learning for a Sustainable Future. It provides teachers access to lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources that integrate environmental, social and economic spheres through learning that is interdisciplinary and action oriented. We call this learning Education for Sustainable Development or ESD. | 782 |
| 11 | | Soil, Water, Food and Energy: Agriculture in an Era of Global Climate Change Scientific, economic, governmental and international topics related to food and agricultural research and education. | 1249 |
| 12 | | Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA) Sustainable development has numerous definitions and its ecological, economic and social principles received universal agreement at the 1992 Earth Summit. One of the summit’s major outcomes, Agenda 21, includes a whole chapter (Chapter 14) on sustainable land use. However, developing and implementing an integrated approach to analyzing the three sustainability dimensions as a coherent whole and integrating them in development or business strategies remains a major challenge. At international, national, regional and community level, along the value chain, and at farm or commodity levels, many institutions and experts have invested years in developing a plethora of sustainability assessment frameworks, standards and indicator sets. | 977 |
| 13 | | International leages Of Concervation Photographers To further environmental and cultural conservation through communication initiatives aimed at creating vital content and disseminating conservation messages to a wide variety of audiences. | 763 |
| 14 | | Future Of Food As a communications consultancy, Schuttelaar & Partners strives to promote greater health and sustainability. To do so, we rely on a combination of science, social dialogue and good sense to help our clients build public support for sustainable innovations in nutrition, agriculture and human health. Active in this field since 1995, we provide strategic advice and communication solutions to help our clients with a variety of activities, and join them in encouraging communication and dialogue on issues relating to the life sciences. Current themes in our work include changes in the global flow of natural resources, the growing importance of food in disease prevention, and innovative types of international development. Our firm maintains close ties with many partners in our key areas of expertise. Because of this extensive network, we can help clients to spot and exploit new trends and opportunities early on. These clients include large and small companies, governments, research institutions, and non-profit organisations. | 904 |
| 15 | | IFOAM EU Conference Resource Efficiency and Food Security: Opportunities and Challenges for sustainable Food Systems Consumption of our natural resources in the EU is growing unabatedly and at an unsustainable rate. Despite technological improvements in resource use efficiency for many key technologies, in absolute terms, our rate of using up these resources is steadily increasing, thereby undermining the ability of the ecosystem to sustain itself and regenerate, and ultimately also affecting our abilities of survival. Considering also that the human global population is on the rise, along with an increase in the number of people rising to middle-class standards of living, it becomes evident that the current trends cannot continue: not from an environmental point of view, not from a human-needs point of view, and not from an ethical point of view. | 847 |
| 16 | | Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 Project What is a sustainable lifestyle? // What will a sustainable future mean for the way we live, move, and consume? // How do we know if our lifestyles are sustainable or not? // How can our aspirations for life and well-being improvements be enabled sustainably (within one planet)? These are some of the underlying questions driving the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 European social platform project. We hope that exploring our website will bring you another small step closer to your own personal vision of a sustainable lifestyle in 2050. We look forward to engaging with you in this project! | 1017 |
| 17 | | World Food Day Food prices - from crisis to stability Price swings, upswings in particular, represent a major threat to food security in developing countries. Hardest-hit are the poor. According to the World Bank, in 2010-2011 rising food costs pushed nearly 70 million people into extreme poverty. | 807 |
| 18 | | The Sustainable Procurrment Centre Of Excellence The SPCE will build capacity in sustainable procurement, develop capability in influencing supply chains, address process issues, develop measurement and monitoring tools and communicate a full understanding of CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts, in the specification, production, delivery, utilisation and disposal, of goods and services purchased by the Higher Education (HE) sector. | 820 |
| 19 | | SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 Project! What is a sustainable lifestyle? // What will a sustainable future mean for the way we live, move, and consume? // How do we know if our lifestyles are sustainable or not? // How can our aspirations for life and well-being improvements be enabled sustainably (within one planet)? These are some of the underlying questions driving the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 European social platform project. We hope that exploring our website will bring you another small step closer to your own personal vision of a sustainable lifestyle in 2050. We look forward to engaging with you in this project! | 767 |
| 20 | | Edgar Hertwich on EUREAPA, an environmental footprint tool EUREAPA is an online tool that gives policy makers a virtual crystal ball with with to foresee the environmental effects of different government policies on water, land and greenhouse gas production. | 533 |
| 21 | | Environment: Copenhagen European Green Capital 2014 The Danish city of Copenhagen has won the European Green Capital Award for 2014. The award was presented by EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik at a ceremony in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, the current holder of the title, on Friday evening. Copenhagen received special praise for its achievements, notably in terms of eco-innovation and sustainable mobility, its commitment to act as a role model for the green economy, in Europe and beyond, and for an exceptionally promising communication strategy. | 566 |
| 22 | | Foodbest The project is working to establish a European platform of excellence within food innovation and knowledge exchange. Bringing together the most innovative companies and universities in Europe, the goal is to create a platform for a Food Innovation Community. | 689 |
| 23 | | Green Ideas Green Ideas Project is a series of workshops that adopt design-thinking and rapid prototyping methods in order to explore creative ways in which green innovation may be empowered by education and technology. | 686 |
| 24 | | Global Wind Day 2012 Since 2007, 15thJune has been designated Global Wind Day. Starting as a European initiative, it went global in 2009 and is now co-ordinated by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), through an extensive partnership network. | 782 |
| 25 | | Solar Day 2012 Every year many countries use Solar Day as a time to raise awareness of the many benefits of solar energy, but unlike many other "special days" the date seems to vary according to where you live. | 673 |
| 26 | | Hours left: Save Rio, Save the Planet Rio drew to a close today and unfortunately world leaders failed to deliver an agreement to end fossil fuel subsidies. Instead the text offers a weak invitation to countries to end "inefficient subsidies", but without definition, a timeline, or any accountability, this is really just an greenlight for Big Oil, Coal and Gas to hang on to their public funding. But it’s not all bad. In the last two weeks, we’ve taken an issue from the political fringes and thrust it into the mainstream. World leaders might have failed to make history, but our movement is strong, building, and has what it takes to win in the long run! | 545 |
| 27 | | Will your city be the European Green Capital 2015? Today the Commission launches the search to find the city that will win the European Green Capital title in 2015. The European Green Capital Award recognises cities that are at the forefront of environmentally-friendly urban living and which can act as role-models to inspire other cities. The annual award is intended to spur European cities to become more attractive and healthy places – “fit for life”. | 455 |
| 28 | | The 24th Annual EAIE Conference Higher education professionals from around the world will meet at Europe’s largest international higher education conference in Dublin this September to exchange ideas, learn from best practices and debate policies and the hottest topics in the field. | 586 |
| 29 | | At the crossroads between green economy and rights of nature Almost one thousand dolphins are lying dead on the beach. Another five thousand pelicans have also been found dead. What is the cause of this massacre? There are different explanations. Some argue that it was the offshore oil exploration while others say that these birds are dying because anchovy, their main food, has disappeared as a result of the sudden heating of coastal waters due to climate change. Whatever the explanation, the fact is that during the past months, the coasts off Peru have become the silent witness of what the capitalist system is doing to Nature. | 790 |
| 30 | | Sustainable aquaculture's contribution to discussions at Rio+20 With eyes turning towards Rio+20 we are all reminded of the development challenges ahead of us. Central among these is how to feed the projected 9 billion people on our planet in a sustainable way. Among the discussions and side events, a full day (18 June)* will be dedicated to exploring this topic. | 859 |
| 31 | | EURAXESS EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion is a one-stop shop for researchers seeking to advance their careers and personal development by moving to other countries. In addition to the information on training and jobs, this electronic gateway is the entry point to a wealth of practical information on living, working and relaxing in the European countries involved. | 547 |
| 32 | | Psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability Psychology for a Better World is for people who believe it is worth trying to make a world in which both our species and the ecological systems we are part of can flourish. The book is based on the latest research in psychology and is jam packed with action strategies. It offers new ways to think about how people interact in social settings, why we are tempted to stick with what we know, and how the same characteristics that currently keep us hooked into unsustainable practices can be used to move us forward. The final chapter is a guide to help you analyse what you are doing to contribute towards a better world, and how you can be more effective while simultaneously increasing your personal wellbeing. | 610 |
| 33 | | International Day for Biological Diversity - 22 May The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity. In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as IDB, to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This was partly done because it was difficult for many countries to plan and carry out suitable celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays that coincide around that time of year. | 531 |
| 34 | | Environment & Sustainability the world’s leading publisher on sustainability and environmental technologies, and other sustainability-focused resources from across the Taylor & Francis Group. We’re excited to be talking to our parent company Informa about sustainability-focused events. | 554 |
| 35 | | EDULINK II Call for Proposals launched EDULINK II is open to public or private Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), networks of HEIs and Regional Institutions of Higher Education. The current Call for Proposals is designed to continue fostering co-operation in the field of Higher Education between the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP States) and the European Union. | 524 |
| 36 | | C-E.N.T.E.R. Course The C-E.N.T.E.R. workshop for active dissemination and exploitation of EU project results is based on the outputs of the collection of the state-of-the-art of dissemination carried out in each partner country in the beginning of the project. The workshop will be developed with duration of 5 days in English with a focus on interactive participation in form of smaller working groups, presentations of good practice examples and discussions. The other part will include thematic key inputs in plenary sessions as well as excursions to companies working in fields necessary and interesting for dissemination such as graphic design, web design, print shop, newspapers, TV channels. | 630 |
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