Posts by: UNEPWCMC

DCP launches a new Resources Hub

DCP launches a new Resources Hub

A development corridor is a linear geographical area identified as a priority for investment to catalyse economic growth and development. Development corridors improve connections between rural and urban areas to increase trade, communications and services. For instance, by building infrastructure such as railways, roads and pipelines or developing agricultural value chains to create more opportunities …

Can development corridors deliver positive outcomes for nature?

Can development corridors deliver positive outcomes for nature?

Diego Juffe Bignoli (Senior Programme Officer, UNEP-WCMC/ Post-Doctoral Scientist, Development Corridors Partnership) “I don’t want problems, I want solutions” one of my early managers used to tell me more than a decade ago. Ever since, that simple request has followed me as a guiding principle. Of course, you need to know what the problems are …

Seven principles to set goals that achieve positive outcomes for biodiversity

Seven principles to set goals that achieve positive outcomes for biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty put in place in 1993 to promulgate conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, while ensuring the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. The CBD and its partners are now in the process of determining a new Global Biodiversity …

Sharing, learning and impact: DCP furthers China-Africa cooperation with a series of targeted outreach events

Sharing, learning and impact: DCP furthers China-Africa cooperation with a series of targeted outreach events

(Cover image features DCP China, Kenya, UK and Tanzania teams in 2018 in Ihemi, Tanzania – by Diego Juffe Bignoli/ UNEP-WCMC) When the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) was launched in 2017, led by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), it was with the explicit aim of answering the question: How can development …

Do development corridors contribute to carbon emissions?

Do development corridors contribute to carbon emissions?

By Elena Castellano, London School of Economics (LSE), UK Setting the scene In the context of global climate change efforts, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa focus more on climate change adaptation, rather than on mitigating climate change. From a global perspective, this is only fair; Africa’s historical contribution to global emissions is significantly smaller than all …

Using remote sensing to improve wildlife connectivity in Tanzania’s agricultural corridors

Using remote sensing to improve wildlife connectivity in Tanzania’s agricultural corridors

Pablo Cisneros-Araujo and Miguel Ramirez-Lopez, two former MSc students linked to the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) from Copenhagen University, share their experience of working with the DCP in Tanzania. Their collaborative work resulted in the publication of this scientific paper in the journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. The search for research with practical, …

9 women of the Development Corridors Partnership creating pathways for sustainable and equitable African futures

9 women of the Development Corridors Partnership creating pathways for sustainable and equitable African futures

This International Women’s Day, we shine the spotlight on 9 women within the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) who provide leadership and expertise, both global and local, to the implementation of development corridors that carry positive outcomes for the people and biodiversity of Kenya and Tanzania.    It is widely recognized that gender equality is a …

Supporting adaptation action and climate resilience in 2021

Supporting adaptation action and climate resilience in 2021

(Originally published on 1st February, 2021, as a post on LSE’s Grantham Research Institute blog. See the full publication here.) Authors: Declan Conway and Katharine Vincent We all have to live with the risks posed by climate change, and learning how best to adapt will continue for decades into the future. There are no blueprints: …