Both ENDS
Het Samdhana Instituut is een Zuid-Oost Aziatische small grants organizatie met sterke verbanden tot grassroot Indonesische milieu en vrouwen groeperingen. Het instituut heeft nationale kantoren in Indonesië en de Filipijnen.
Vorige week is de nieuwe ronde van klimaatonderhandelingen begonnen in Doha, de hoofdstad van Qatar. Er is weinig aandacht voor en de verwachtingen zijn laag. Tegelijkertijd wordt wel het internationale Green Climate Fund opgetuigd, het fonds dat de benodigde en in 2010 afgesproken honderd miljard dollar per jaar aan klimaatgelden moet bieden aan ontwikkelingslanden. Ze kunnen zich daarmee aanpassen aan klimaatveranderingen, en hun ontwikkeling op een klimaatvriendelijke manier laten verlopen. Het is de grootste multilaterale berg geld in de wereldgeschiedenis.
Together with 29 other CSO's, we've submitted our comments and recommendations in the Public Consultation on the AfDB Integrated Safeguards System. These include that the Bank should prioritize community-led development and human rights-based approaches; protect natural resources and tackles environmental and climate crises; raise the bar on access to information, transparency and accountability; facilitate participatory processes in policies, programmes and projects; and end inequality, poverty, and the cutback and privatization of vital services.
A letter written by Both ENDS, co-signed by 350.org, Australia, Urgewald, Germany, Green Alternative, Georgia, and others, with comments to the AIIB's Energy Strategy Issues note. This strategy prioritizes large scale energy infrastructure, which fails to meet the energy needs of local communities.
The AIIB has the opportunity to champion financing green energy systems for future generations by leapfrogging the large energy infrastructure that rely on fossil fuels, plantations for biomass or dams.
Join our dialogue on how to set up more and better financial mechanisms that can support agroecological initiatives of local communities living in drylands.
The land degradation neutrality (LDN) response hierarchy of Avoid > Reduce > Reverse land degradation is an overarching principle for LDN implementation, which guides people in planning interventions to achieve LDN. The hierarchy articulates which interventions should be prioritised based on their potential to maximise the conservation of land-based natural capital, recognising that avoiding or reducing land degradation is generally more cost-effective than efforts to reverse past degradation. As value for money is highest in the Avoiding and in Reducing Land Degradation response, a smart way to spend money is to support sustainable land management approaches like agroecology that work with nature, not against it.
