SDG15 Life on Land
Museum Collections and Biodiversity Conservation
Museum collections play a key role through supporting biodiversity and nature conservation-related research, management and policy.
Asia-Pacific Climate Project Session 4: Microbeads Around Us
Microbeads are manufactured solid plastic particles of less than one millimeter in their largest dimension. They are most frequently made of polyethylene but can be of other petrochemical plastics such as polypropylene and plystyrene. These plastic products also unfortunately affect marine, land-based, and human life in negative ways.
In this session of the Asia-Pacific Climate Project, two speakers will discuss more about this issue.
Preventing and Mitigating Land Degradation: Nutrient Turnover and Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration
This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO elearning Academy, Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific). These webinars are an opportunity for all of us to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models. They aim to provide a holistic and comprehensive view of current trends in thematic areas related to global challenges, by combining development research and innovation perspectives.
Preventing and Mitigating Land Degradation: Nutrient Turnover and Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration
This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO elearning Academy, Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific). These webinars are an opportunity for all of us to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models. They aim to provide a holistic and comprehensive view of current trends in thematic areas related to global challenges, by combining development research and innovation perspectives.
Leaders’ Pledge for Nature: United to Reverse Biodiversity Loss by 2030 for Sustainable Development
Political leaders participating in the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity in September 2020, representing 72 countries from all regions and the European Union, have committed to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. By doing so, these leaders are sending a united signal to step up global ambition and encourage others to match their collective ambition for nature, climate and people with the scale of the crisis at hand.
Remote Sensing for Mangroves in Support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Understanding mangrove ecosystems and mapping their extent is critical to meeting SDG 6.6.1 goal.
The Sustainable Rice Platform
As a multi-stakeholder alliance of over 100 member institutions from public, private and civil society organizations, the SRP offers the global rice supply chain a set of proven instruments to facilitate widescale adoption of sustainable rice production practices, such as:
Tracking progress on food and agriculture related SDG indicators 2020: A report on the indicators under FAO custodianship
In September 2019, the High Level Political Forum noted that the world is “on track” to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. This echoed the main finding of the first edition of this report, issued in July 2019, that the world was not going to meet most of the food and agriculture-related SDG targets by 2030.