Healthy Ocean

Restoring Nature: Interfaith Perspective and Call for Actions

United Nation’s World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on June 5 annually to encourage awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation would like to invite you to join a webinar, focusing on "Restoring Nature: Interfaith Perspective and Call for Actions”, on June 5, 2020, to celebrate and to advance the actions for protecting our biodiversity and nature. 

Introductory Webinar: Using the UN Biodiversity Lab to Support National Conservation and Sustainable Development Goals

This training, offered in partnership with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), teaches participants about global biodiversity-based uses of remote sensing. The UN Biodiversity Lab is an online platform that allows policymakers and other stakeholders to access global data layers, upload national datasets, and analyze these datasets in combination to provide key information on the CBD’s Aichi Biodiversity Targets and on the nature-based Sustainable Development Goals.

UN Ocean Conference: Youth Momentum

Engaging young people in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, is more essential than ever. Join our webinar to mobilize youth representatives, share information and brainstorm ideas on how to strengthen the momentum for ocean action among young people during the preparatory process of the 2020 UN Ocean Conference.

Ocean Accounts: the icing on the cake

Environmental-Economic Accounts are increasingly a mainstream tool for measuring the condition of the environment, the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the environment. Water Accounts, Land Accounts, Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounts and Energy Accounts are just some of the more commonly available environmental-economic accounts. However, ecosystems are of increasing national, regional and global importance and countries are asking: why invest in ocean accounts?