ICLEI Member City Durban, South Africa (represented by Debra Roberts), ICLEI Secretary General Gino Van Begin, ICLEI USA Director Mike Schmitz and US Environmental Protection Agency Director Toni Socci met for an exclusive briefing with former Vice President Al Gore on the Durban Adaptation Charter (DAC) - a global agreement between world mayors to mainstream climate change adaptation.

Last year, $244bn (£149bn) poured into global renewable investments. But only a tiny amount of that trickled down to where it is needed the most – to provide power to the two billion people without access to energy. The UN's goal of universal access to modern energy by 2030 will require an annual investment of up to $41bn a year. Progress to date has been slow, to say the least.

Four years after its first workshop held in Bonn, 2009, which led to the publication “The Role of Ecosystems in Disaster Risk Reduction” (2013), the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR), the Centre for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is inviting researchers, policy makers and practitioners to a Science-Policy workshop to share success stories and discuss how the science and evidence-base of ecosystem-based DRR/CCA could more effectively inform and influence development decisions. 

Más de un centenar de productores y empresarios de trigo participaron del día de campo sobre variedades de trigo INIA para la agricultura del sur de Chile.

With the New Year upon us, let's take a few moments to consider the major sustainable energy trends in business from the past year. Many of these 10 trends represent milestones achieved in 2013 as the result of years of dedicated efforts. Others are of a more short-term nature. Each, however, played a big role in 2013.

La ganadería es uno de los subsectores agropecuarios de mayor importancia desde un punto de vista económico, social y ambiental en Mesoamérica. Para que este sector cumpla su papel como pilar de la seguridad alimentaria, es necesario que el sector lleve a cabo un proceso de mejora continua de su sostenibilidad, según señalaron los ministros de Agricultura de Mesoamérica.

The European Union needs to establish a roadmap to outline how it plans to increase climate finance for the world's poorest countries to 22-29 billion euros by 2020, according to a report on Tuesday by European auditors.

The Irish economy is becoming more energy-efficient and the country will meet its targets under the Kyoto energy conservation treaty, according to a new report from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

ADB’s new ‘The Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific’ report estimates the range of potential economic impacts of climate change for specific sectors and economies of the region under various emissions scenarios. The study covers all of ADB’s Pacific developing member countries, but specific results are presented in the study for Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu.

Se trata del programa denominado Agroforestería y Restauración de Bosques para la Conectividad Ecológica, la Reducción de la Pobreza y la Conservación de la Biodiversidad en Cerro San Gil, ubicado en el departamento caribeño de Izabal.

Scientists in Canada say they have found that a seldom-mentioned greenhouse gas, which has been present in the atmosphere for decades, has far more potential than CO2 to warm the Earth.

The substance – called perfluorotributylamine, or PFTBA – "is the most radiatively efficient chemical found to date, breaking all other chemical records for its potential to impact climate," scientists at the University of Toronto said in a news release about their recent study.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation, today signed agreements to support an existing renewable energy and energy efficiency centre in West Africa and to set up three more centres in East and Southern African and in the Caribbean region. The four project agreements will receive a total of approximately EUR 3.5 million in funding from the ADA.  

This Massive Open Online Course, hosted on the education platform Coursera, is free and contains a snapshot of the most recent scientific evidence and practical actions on what you can do about  tackling climate change, a challenge that affects us all. Explore forward-looking scenarios about your world: Will your community be drier or wetter? Will it be hotter or colder? How will climate change affect your food supply and your water? Can cities be made greener? What steps can you and your community take to prepare for some of these changes?