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COP15 in Montreal: Reasons to be cheerful?

Catherine Bryan, Synchronicity Earth and EFN COP15 in Montreal: Reasons to be cheerful?

Posted on 2 Mar 2023

COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity has set a course for nations to significantly step up their actions to halt the loss of biodiversity. But will the new ‘plan of action’ for nature adopted at COP15 – termed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – succeed? In this blog, Catherine shares her personal reflections on the conference and the 'reasons to be cheerful', despite the challenges left unresolved.

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Ancestral Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples Are Essential to Conservation

Katy Scholfield, Arcus Foundation Ancestral Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples Are Essential to Conservation

Posted on 6 May 2022

In this blog, Katy Scholfield aims to help build awareness and attend to the intersection of social and environmental justice to bring about increasing recognition and respect for the intrinsic value of all beings, human and nonhuman. This blog explores the Arcus Foundation's Great Apes and Gibbons Program goal of reconciling the well-being and resilience of local, Indigenous, and forest-dependent communities with wildlife conservation objectives.

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The World Conservation Congress: A message from Marseille

Jim Pettiward, Synchronicity Earth The World Conservation Congress: A message from Marseille

Posted on 24 Nov 2021

With large-scale environmental events such as the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) and the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) gaining more attention – particularly among mainstream media – what can environmental funders do to support their grantees and help to ensure their ideas and concerns are heard within these spaces? In this piece, Jim Pettiward explains how Synchronicity Earth championed its partners and helped to promote a broad and diverse range of voices at IUCN WCC this year.

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Mission 2020: holding corporations to account for deforestation, and supporting communities on the ground

Ginger Cassady, Rainforest Action Network Mission 2020: holding corporations to account for deforestation, and supporting communities on the ground

Posted on 7 Oct 2019

2020 is a 'Super Year', a year for bold action on forests, amongst other environmental and social issues. Can funders support NGOs as they hold corporations to account and support forest defenders on the ground?

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