Blog Posts tagged with “law-of-the-sea”

• Engaging with communities: Community Protocols

  We've been thinking a lot lately across all ecosystems portfolios about how best to engage with communities to support them to manage their own natural resources and resist industrial scale expansion which threatens important biodiversity and livelihoods. We recently came across something called community protocols and have been thinking about how these are being and can be used in different…

• Ocean Health Index

  Anyone who has read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will know what the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is: 42. It took the fictional supercomputer Deep Thought 7.5 million years to come up with that answer. A group of marine scientists and conservationists have taken rather less time to come up with the…

• Low expectations for Rio

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed ‘cautious optimism’ about the imminent Rio+20 summit, which begins on June 20. He might be the only one. The closer we get to the conference—marking the 20th anniversary of the original Rio Earth Summit in 1992—the more barriers are being thrown in the way of any useful outcomes. For a start, any agreement…