01Feb
2017

Land Use Planning and Management

OBJECTIVE The project’s main topics include: Land Use Policies Spatial Planning Instruments Organizational Development / Cooperation Model Human Capacity Development PROJECT DESCRIPTION Within the Indo-German Partnership, the “Land Use Planning and Management Project” by GIZ, the Ministry of Rural Development and the two State Governments of Tamil Nadu and Odisha aims to improve the general culture...

01Feb
2017

At Davos forum, UN chief Guterres calls businesses ‘best allies’ to curb climate change, poverty

Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for a new generation of partnerships with the business community to limit the impact of climate change and to reduce poverty. In an address this morning to a special session on cooperation for peace, the Secretary-General said he was...

01Feb
2017

Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Partnership Project-Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

OBJECTIVE The ABS Partnership project aims at strengthening the capacities of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), selected State Biodiversity Boards (SBB) and Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC). It also aims at creating awareness amongst commercial users of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge for the effective implementation of ABS mechanisms under...