Projects
A transition is a change in a system, occurring over a period of time, in a specific location. Both incremental transitions at small scales and structural changes to nature norms at larger scales need to happen in a participative, coordinated and integrated way in order to achieve the transformation to a sustainable planet.
"Let's work towards a sustainable planet, not only intellectually expressed in reports, preachings, and syllabuses; instead be seen on the ground through every effort and output from our scrupulous observations, thoughts, plans, and actions in connection and relationship with every living & non-living species, that co-exist in all feelings as energies in nature's creation."
Biodiversity credits: the latest tool in the climate action arsenal, and these credits can succeed where carbon offsets fail or don’t apply.
Habitats naturally store and sequester carbon. The biodiversity credit program pays farmers. Creating healthy habitats for pollinators benefits people, crop production, soils, water and wildlife, and we all achieve the goal of profitable farming through sustainable conservation practices.
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The world’s 7.6 billion people represent only 0.01% of all living things by weight, but humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
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As a result, ⅓ of the world suffers from micronutrient deficiencies.
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About 60% of infectious diseases are from animals. In other words, higher biodiversity rates are associated with better human health.
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According to the WEF’s report, more than half of the world’s GDP is highly dependent on nature. Take, for instance, the case of pharmaceuticals – about $75 billion/year of its sales are based on materials of natural origin.
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Forests are the main source of livelihood for more than 1 billion people in the Global South.
Biodiversity offsets work somehow similar to carbon offsets. They’re based on the premise that impacts from development can be compensated for if sufficient habitat can be protected, enhanced or established elsewhere.
Project development can be in the form of land exploitation for building, mining, or any other activities that negatively impact nature.
Biodiversity protection and restoration is one of the key topics at COP27 in Egypt this year. Apart from the tragedy of flora and fauna species going extinct, this massive loss also hinders efforts to fight climate change.
That’s because natural ecosystems like forests, oceans, and peatlands are great carbon sinks. So losing them means the planet is also losing the chance to stop global warming.
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APPROACH OF WORK
A critical appreciation of the “BOTTOM-UP PARTICIPATORY” approach to sustainable farming with forest restoration: embracing complexity rather than desirability
There has been a growing backlash against top-down approaches to environmental management throughout the world because of its tendency to prioritize and solely appreciate professional and scientific “expert” knowledge. This lends the approach a potentially exclusive and paternalistic nature, which can alienate local people and their internal resource management schemes. Hence there has been a growing acceptance of bottom-up participatory approaches that characteristically both appreciate and incorporate local people and their local knowledge, skills, needs, and experiences.
