Capacity building
Earthmind associates are active in a broad range of capacity building activities including research, training, and awareness raising. Highlights include the following:
• Economics of marine resources - support to GEF IW: LEARN, the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme, and PERSGA (the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden) for capacity-building workshops on the economics of marine resources
Legacy website
• Fish-in-the sea initiative - conceptualisation of a possible European-wide campaign to address over-fishing
Legacy website
• Issues-based modules for biodiversity policy - support to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) biodiversity policy issues-based modules project with respect to integration of European biodiversity-related treaties
Legacy website
• Labour & the environment - research & guidance for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on developing programmatic approaches to labour and environmental issues
Towards an ILO programme on the environment
Briefing note on climate change and employment
Legacy website
• Natural disaster risk management – support to the efforts of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN-ISDR) and its partners to engage business in activities to reduce the risk of natural disasters
Business case for multi-stakeholder disaster risk management
Legacy website
• River valuation - organisation and faciliation of a GEF IW:LEARN West African regional workshop on economic valuation and water-related decision-making
Legacy website
• Strategic corporate engagement with NGOs - guidance to Credit Suisse on NGO engagement
Legacy website
• Urban sustainability – research for the Swiss Business Hub GCC in Dubai
Urban Sustainability site
• Valuation in western Africa – survey of the environmental economic valuation work undertaken in the region as an input into the GEO-4 report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Valuation of environmental goods-and-services in Western Africa
Legacy website
