IWD 2024: Inspiring women who volunteer for the UN, including the GPI!

Published Mar 19ByCaroline

On the occasion of this year's International Women's Day (8 March), we would like to highlight an article by United Nations Peru that honors those women who decided to take action and commit to volunteerism by becoming UN Volunteers (UNVs) -...

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Region Global

Tropical peatland conservation could protect humans from new diseases

17 November, 2020

Theme Conservation

Data shared by the Data Visualization Lab at National Geographic. This National Geographic Society open source technology and datasets will be available via the UN Biodiversity Lab platform

Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Country Argentina

Protecting the crucial peatlands of Argentina’s Peninsula Mitre

28 October, 2020

Theme Conservation

Wildfires 5 Wikimedia Incendio forestal en Pirque Santiago de Chile

Region Global

Governments, smart data and wildfires: where are we at?

17 September, 2020

Theme Fires

Chilean Peatlands

Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Country Chile

Growing awareness of the value of Chile’s peatlands

28 July, 2020

Theme Conservation

Peat coring

Region Global

Countries preserving the world’s largest terrestrial organic carbon stock with the support of peatland mapping and monitoring

28 June, 2020

Theme Researching peatlands location and status

Region Global

GLF Digital Conference – Why peatlands Matter for Food Security

10 June, 2020

Theme Livelihoods

Agreement signed between FAO and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Region Global

Agreement signed between FAO and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

30 January, 2020

Theme Other

Working on Fire

Region Global

Smart management of wildfires can help curb global heating

16 December, 2019

Theme Fires

UNFCCC COP24 Event: Towards a joint peatland declaration: Synergies of MEAs to reverse the trend on peatland degradation

08 December, 2019

UK peat fire

Region Global

UNFCCC COP24 Side Event: The trace of haze: Peat fires as local and global challenges

07 December, 2019

Theme Fires

Peru Peatlands

Country Indonesia

GLF Bonn Side Event: Lessons learned and best practices for the management of tropical peatlands: an inter-tropical dialogue

02 December, 2019

Region Global

GLF Bonn Side Event: High level South South Cooperation in action – Protecting Tropical Peatlands Together – a Triple win for the Climate, People and the Planet

02 December, 2019

Theme Climate and GHG