13 July 2011: The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has reported that the Ilosaarirock festival in Joensuu, Finland, is cooperating on sustainable development with the North Karelia Biosphere Reserve by compensating for its carbon footprint and protecting a rare, endangered lizard.
13 July 2011: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) launched a pilot exercise on tracking impact indicators at the national level. The "inception workshop" for the exercise concluded with an action plan for pilot countries to apply impact indicators on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD), at the national level.
July 2011: The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has released an online resource, the Crop Genebank Knowledge Base (CGKB), for genebank managers and conservationists to provide an access point for crop-specific knowledge, practices for germplasm management, and a collection of publications and training materials.
June 2011: Bioversity International has launched a project titled "Reinforcing the resilience of poor rural communities in the face of food insecurity, poverty and climate change," which works with partners in India, Nepal and Bolivia.
10 July 2011: The UN and Nippon Foundation of Japan have announced a fellowship programme enabling ocean-focused government officials and mid-level professionals from developing countries to receive advanced education and training in ocean affairs and the law of the sea, so they can assist their governments in formulating comprehensive ocean policy and implementing the legal regime set out in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and related instruments.
7 July 2011: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has for the first time assessed all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) and found that seven are classified in a "Threatened" category, at serious risk of extinction, and four species are "Near Threatened."
1 July 2011: The World Bank and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalizing their collaboration to support culture "as a motor for social development and poverty alleviation, through employment and job creation," according to Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.
July 2011: The latest issue of UNCCD News reports on global efforts to preserve genetic resources, foster crop diversity, and Africa's Nerica rice, among other topics.
6 July 2011: The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has announced a US$170 million global alliance and research programme to double the productivity of maize farms and increase their resilience to climate change.
5 July 2011: Policies from Bhutan, The Gambia, Nepal, Rwanda, Switzerland and the US have been shortlisted for the Future Policy Award, which aims to celebrate policies that contribute best to the conservation and sustainable development of forests for the benefit of current and future generations.
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