8 November 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that over 12 billion trees have been planted in 193 countries under the Billion Tree Campaign. The milestone was reached following a tree planting campaign carried out in Kenya by the Green Africa Foundation, which has planted over 24 million trees to date.
9 November 2011: The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched its Biodiversity Initiative, an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to address, in a holistic and integrated manner, all aspects related to the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity from the perspective of UNESCO's mandate, programmes and activities. The Initiative was launched at a side event held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, and hosted by Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, and Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
3 November 2011: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist coastal communities in remote areas of the Coral Triangle of Indonesia and the Philippines in starting small, green businesses that will help preserve threatened marine environments in the area.
3 November 2011: EcoAgriculture Partners is carrying out the programming and planning for the international initiative on "Landscapes for People, Food and Nature" together with a group of eight co-organizers partners. This three-year collaborative initiative aims to scale up successful strategies that improve livelihoods and food security, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services, and help address climate change.
2 November 2011: The World Bank, Interpol and partners launched Project Predator, an initiative to protect and save the world's last surviving wild tigers. Due to poaching and habitat degradation and fragmentation, Asia's estimated 100,000 tigers in 1900 have dwindled to fewer than 3,500 across the tiger range countries.
3 November 2011: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and QUINVITA have entered into an agreement to support the sustainable development of bioenergy crops in tropical regions.
November 2011: In preparation for the in-depth review of the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) Programme of Work on Island Biodiversity (PoWIB), a questionnaire survey is being conducted to contribute to a pre-session document, to be tabled at the 16th meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16), in May 2012.
1 November 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands.
October 2011: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has reported on the release of new wheat and maize varieties that are resistant to disease and adapted to climate change in China and Ethiopia.
26 October 2011: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced the new phase of the GloBallast Partnerships Project, which aims to protect marine biodiversity by addressing the global spread of invasive species and pathogens in the ballast tanks of international cargo vessels. The EBRD supports GloBallast, which is conducted by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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