Category Archive for "Stories"

Story of the Month – IDDRR Commemoration – Community Based Peatlands Restoration and Protecting the Ancestor Legacy

October 12th, 2021 | Asia and The Pacific

Facilitating community collective action to save peatlands of the island of Sumatra The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

Story of the Month – Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week – What role can Nature-based Solutions play in the humanitarian sector

April 16th, 2021 | Stories

The HNPW will take place virtually from 19 April to 7 May, 2021. The event is cohosted by the […]

Story of the Month – Biodiversity for resilience – how Nature-based Solutions can help

November 24th, 2020 | Stories

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is negotiating a new global biodiversity framework which will be decided at […]

Story of the Month – Learning about Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation on International Day for Disaster Risk

October 5th, 2020 | Stories

On the International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction, 13th of October, 2020 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) […]

After the floods – ecosystem responses to the next floods

July 23rd, 2020 | Asia and The Pacific

Between June and August 2018, the worst recorded floods since 1924 devastated Kerala, India due to unusually high […]

#Nature4Health

June 4th, 2020 | News

On Earth Day, 22nd April 2020, the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) launched a social […]

Collaboration must be at the heart of climate action

April 21st, 2020 | Global

This year, Earth Day marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement, when 20 […]

Women leading wetlands conservation in Uganda

March 6th, 2020 | Africa

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, let’s praise the role of Ugandan women in safeguarding marshes, one of […]

Promoting livelihoods through nature-based disaster risk reduction in India

October 18th, 2019 | Stories

Every year on 13 October, the world marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. The UN Environment Programme is working with various UN agencies, governments, non-governmental […]

Towards resilience and risk reduction for coral reefs in Central America

October 8th, 2019 | Stories

Insurance payments for restoring a coral reef after it has been smashed by a hurricane may seem a […]