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2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop
GEOSS: Supporting Science for the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Bonn, Germany, August 28—31, 2012 |
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Breakout Session B1: Environmental Sustainability and Poverty
Conveners: Alberto C. Riccardi, James Syvitski
Reducing and reversing environmental degradation and alleviation of poverty are urgent global issues, which have a lot in common. However, they are often treated separately. The breakout session will discuss these two related issues and aims to identify the information needs for a better understanding of the linkage between poverty and environmental degradation.
Relevant web pages:
- Poverty Environment Net: Poverty Environment Net is the leading index of poverty-environment knowledge and resources. This site is dedicated to sharing information and lessons gained from the beneficial relationship between environmental management and poverty reduction.
- Poverty and the Environment: Article by Anup Shah.
- UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative: The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is a global UN-led programme that supports country-led efforts to mainstream poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.
- Environment Poverty: A theme on World Poverty, a look a causes and solutions.
- IISD Poverty: Poverty and Environment - Addressing inequity for nature's sake
- World Resource Institute: Equity, Poverty, and the Environment.
- CIFOR: Poverty Environment Network: A comprehensive global analysis of tropical forests and poverty.
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