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 …
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 …
(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 …
(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: …
22nd January 2021 As we enter a last-chance decade for tackling the global nature crisis, scientists have outlined a new framework for implementing global commitments to restoring nature, The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy, or Four Steps for the Earth. This comes as 2021 marks the beginning of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as well …
As the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) nears its final year (2021), over 40 researchers and project partners from 11 institutions in Kenya, Tanzania, China and the UK met for an internal mid-term conference, held semi-virtually from 22nd – 25th of Sep 2020. This global virtual meeting replaced DCP’s initial plan to host an in-person Midterm …
During July and August 2020, the value of the Development Corridors Partnership as a growing network, resource and driver of real practical change gained momentum. As part of the process of updating their existing Minerals and Mining Act (2007), the Federal Government of Nigeria recently sought technical assistance from the UK government. Of particular interest …
By Sicily Fiennes (Intern/UNEP-WCMC) UNEP-WCMC is leading the process to map and visualise research taking place across 4 country teams, within the GCRF Development Corridors Partnership. We are critically considering the proposed outputs and planning plausible ways that these could lead to outcomes and longer-term impacts. By taking this approach, we hope to better fill …
In a brief released today, the UMFULA research team of the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme outline their innovative approach to assess climate resilience in the Rufiji River Basin in Tanzania. The basin is the largest in Tanzania. It supplies water for over 4.5 million people, irrigation and livestock, and generates around 80% of …
We recently completed our scoping study for Tanzania. It provides an over-arching view of development corridors in Tanzania, and how they are implemented. We identify key capacity and research gaps in development corridor decision making. We also identify key actors, stakeholders, policies and challenges in some of the largest development corridor projects in Tanzania. This …
