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Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa
2024
Author(s): Adeola O, Evans O, Ngare I
This study explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change initiatives into national policies and planning.
Global Citizenship Education: Critical and International Perspectives
2020
Author(s): Akkari A, Maleq K
The book provides a comprehensive and geographically based overview of the challenges citizenship education faces in a rapidly changing global world through the lens of diversity and inclusiveness.
Global resources outlook 2024: bend the trend- pathways to a liveable planet as resource use spikes
2024
Author(s): United Nations Environment Programme
The report illustrates how, since the 2019 edition of this report, rising trends in global resource use have continued or accelerated. The report also shows how demand for resources is expected to continue increasing in the coming decades. This means that, without urgent and concerted action, by 2060 resource extraction could rise by 60% from 2020 levels – driving increasing damage and risks.
NOAA Guidance and Best Practices for Engaging and Including Indigenous Knowledge in Decision-Making
2024
Publisher/Organisation: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This guidance focuses on knowledge held by Indigenous Peoples, as distinguished from “local ecological knowledge” held by long-time residents in an area, or long-term participants in an activity or industry. Although such local knowledge has importance to NOAA’s work, the focus of this guidance is on the inclusion of knowledge from Indigenous Peoples.
Champions for Nature: Raising Ambition, Sustaining Impact
2024
Author(s): World Economic Forum
As the health of our planet’s critical ecosystems deteriorates, it directly impacts productivity, jobs and well-being. For business leaders and policy-makers, this is not just an issue of moral imperative but also of building resilience and future-proofing business models.
Aboriginal Water Values and Management in Northern Australia
2013
Author(s): Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Narrated by traditional owner, Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart, this video focuses on the research conducted in the Daly River catchment.
Heliyon considers research from all areas of the physical, applied, life, social and medical sciences. The journal publish manuscripts reporting scientifically accurate and valuable research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards.
Assessment of Antioxidant and Antibacterial Efficacy of Some Indigenous Vegetables Consumed by the Manipuri Community in Sylhet, Bangladesh
2024
Author(s): Roy M, Shourove J H, Singha R, Tonmoy T A, Biswas G C, Fariha Chowdhury Meem F C, John P H, Samadder M, Al Faik Md A
The findings of this investigation suggest that the selected indigenous vegetables could be valuable sources of phytochemicals with potential antioxidant and antibacterial activities. Incorporating and promoting these traditional foods into the diet may improve food security, dietary diversity, and public health in Bangladesh.
Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community Code Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use
2004
Author(s): European Parliament, The Council of the European Union
EU legislation on pharmaceutical products for human use also applies to traditional herbal medicines. Herbal medicinal products are defined as any medicinal product, exclusively containing as active ingredients one or more herbal substances, one or more herbal preparations, or a combination of the two.
Nature Finance and Biodiversity Credits: A Private Sector Roadmap to Finance and Act on Nature
2024
Author(s): World Economic Forum
This report aims to offer guidance on how to develop and implement these strategies and plans, using as a practical example one of the emerging instruments with great potential to fund conservation and drive systemic change: biodiversity credits.