A working group of Association for Progressive communication (APC) members aims to bring environment higher on the ICT policy priorities of global civil society. Information and communication technologies are a powerful tool for civil society protecting environment. But more is needed to streamline ICT work of different groups and communities, and offer them access to the ICTs they need to secure environmental sustainability, a BlueLink/APC survey shows.

'This technical note is the product of a long process of consultation with a wide range of resource persons who have over the years been involved in the Danish support to Community Based Natural Resource Management. It gives a brief introduction to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and how this concept may be used as a development strategy. CBNRM has the triple objective of poverty reduction, natural resource conservation and good governance. This note is a contribution to an o more...

Nanotechnology has provided numerous constructs that reduce oxidative damage in engineering applications with great efficiency. As a new research report shows, nanotechnology applications could also help to remediate radioactive contamination at the source, by removing radioactive ions from the environment.

Brazil will launch a satellite in 2011 to monitor deforestation and urban expansion around the world, it has been announced. The United Kingdom–Brazil collaboration was announced last week (14 July) at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Progress in Science. It is part of the continuing UK–Brazil Partnership in Science and Innovation, and stems from discussions between governments and research partners that began in 2007 during the UK–Brazil Year of Cooperation on Science more...

GeSI is a global partnership of ICT companies that promotes technologies for a sustainable development. GeSI seeks: to foster global and open cooperation, to inform the public of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their sustainability performance, and to promote technologies that foster sustainable development. In alliance with GeSI’s Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), GeSI supports companies and institutions more...

This website provides information about the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) including; the vision, charter and structure; links to relevant websites and publications, information on task force action plans and projects and news and media articles.

The AP6 brings together Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United States to address the challenges of climate change, energy security and air pollution in a way that encourages economic developm more...

Produced by National Geographic, UNEP-WCMC, ESRI, The Nature Conservancy and other leading conservation organisations, the Conservation Geoportal is a free online catalogue to discover, view and share conservation maps and data. It was created to help catalogue, evaluate and distribute the wealth of maps and geographic information system data scattered across thousands of organisations and individuals worldwide.

As competition between food and fuel threatens to become a pressing constraint on the current biofuel industry, the biofuels world is starting the transition to next generation biofuels. Emerging powerful market drivers and strong political influences are moving ethanol to the next stage and there is huge interest in the next generation of biofuels from the oil majors. Could this be the beginning of a new branch of industry that could grow bigger than the existing 1st generation fuel ethanol i more...

Green Pages, the online gateway to environmental products and services, facilitates cross-border direct trade by bringing together suppliers and buyers. It aims to deepen and broaden consumer´s ability to make a positive impact through their purchasing, and promotes a shift of public and private financial flows into projects and programs that encourage and contribute to environmentally and socially sustainable development.

The Green Pages database was started in 1994 with the goal of setting more...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) provides a practical and direct means of advancing MDG 7 on Environmental Sustainability (agreed at the UN General Assembly in 2000). This calls for the “integration of the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes”. OECD DAC published this guidebook in 2006 to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account in the context of new aid regimes. It provides environmental assessment tools at the project more...