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The Capacity4dev editorial team regularly publishes knowledge pieces on external cooperation (projects and policies), featuring development professionals sharing good practices, with operational insight.

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Ambassadors' Blog Post

On International Day for Biological Diversity, our Capacity4dev Ambassador Enrique Andrés del Castillo shares his insights on the crucial role of youth activism in ensuring the future of biodiversity and ecosystems.

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Promoting sustainable production and consumption in Latin America

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Voices & Views

Unsustainable consumption and production patterns are at the heart of the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Environmental degradation has become even more evident during the COVID-19...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
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Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector

Promoción de la producción y el consumo sostenibles en América Latina

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Voices & Views

Los patrones de consumo y de producción no sostenibles se encuentran en el centro de la triple crisis planetaria: cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y contaminación La degradación medioambiental se ha vuelto aún más...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
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Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector

Team Europe-Kenya Partnership: community-led wildlife conservation

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Voices & Views

Team Europe is an important partner for Kenya’s development cooperation in the commitment to achieve the country’s national priorities and the drive towards the realisation of Sustainable Development Goals. The Team Europe-Kenya...

Africa
Kenya
Development Effectiveness
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Environment & green economy

Promoting legal timber trade and sustainable forest governance in Guatemala

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Voices & Views

Illegal logging is a global problem with significant negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. Partner countries around the world, including in the Latin America region, have taken action and introduced measures to...

Americas & the Caribbean
Guatemala
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
Forests

Promoviendo el comercio legal de madera y la gobernanza forestal sostenible en Guatemala

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Voices & Views

La tala ilegal de árboles es un problema mundial con un importante impacto negativo en el ámbito económico, medioambiental y social. Los países socios de todo el mundo, incluida la región de América Latina, han emprendido acciones...

Americas & the Caribbean
Guatemala
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
Forests

Seeking a harmonious coexistence between Pacific Islanders and the life below water

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Voices & Views

Marine resources are the backbone of Pacific Island economies and are fundamental for the livelihood of their inhabitants. However, the region is at the forefront of climate change and is struggling to control illegal, unreported...

Oceania
Cook Islands
Fiji
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Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Niue
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Environment & green economy
Fisheries

Local heroes protecting the world’s biodiversity hotspots

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Voices & Views

Small, local conservation organisations in high-biodiversity areas are among nature’s most powerful allies; this is mainly due to their knowledge of and influence over the environment. However, in most cases, these organisations...

Americas & the Caribbean
Bolivia
Asia
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Viet Nam
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Environment & green economy

Youth in action for climate in the Mediterranean

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Voices & Views

30 young activists from 10 South Mediterranean countries joined an EU-funded regional Bootcamp in January 2020 to discuss regional climate and environmental issues and to take action. This initiative created a movement, which...

Children and Youth
Youth engagement and participation
Civil Society
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Citizen participation
Environment & green economy

Policy dialogue: a tool to act on climate and environment

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Voices & Views

The recent European Green Deal, set by the European Commission, is paving the road to a sustainable Europe by clearly recognising the global climate emergency, and by providing new input for action in and outside of Europe...

Asia
Laos
Viet Nam
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Conservation
Natural resource management
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Wildlife trade & trafficking
Environment & green economy
Green policy
Resource efficiency

One Planet Network: Global partnership for a sustainable future

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Voices & Views

From the ways we lead our lives to the production processes which support them, adopting more sustainable practices is central in ensuring a better future. The United Nation’s One Planet Network was formed in acknowledgment of...

Worldwide
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Knowledge Management