Environment and Sustainable Development

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Geneva Water Hub

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Geneva Water Hub
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Geneva Water Hub - GWH
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"The Geneva Water Hub is being developed as a flexible, lean structure with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and several global actors from civil society, academia, river basin organisations, and the private sector. It will develop the hydropolitics agenda to better understand and prevent water-related tensions between competing uses, between public and private actors, and between political entities and countries. It will also offer a hydrodiplomacy platform providing facilitation, conciliation or mediation services.

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Right Livelihood

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Right Livelihood
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Right Livelihood
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"Established in 1980, Right Livelihood honours and supports courageous people solving global problems. Housed under the umbrella of a foundation, Right Livelihood is a courage-powered community for social change committed to peace, justice and sustainability for all. Each year, Right Livelihood highlights change-makers through an Award. To date, 182 Laureates from 72 countries have received the distinction.

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Development Innovations and Networks - IRED

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Development Innovations and Networks - IRED
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Development Innovations and Networks - IRED - IRED
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"Fondée en 1981, l'IRED constitue un réseau international de partenaires locaux en Afrique, Amérique latine et Asie-Pacifique : associations de paysans, pêcheurs, éleveurs ou artisans, centres d'animations, ONG d'appui pour la formation et la technologie et d'instituts d'études, de recherche et de formation."

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Rountable on Sustainable Biomaterials – RSB

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Rountable on Sustainable Biomaterials – RSB
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Rountable on Sustainable Biomaterials – RSB - RSB
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"The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) is an international multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together farmers, companies, non-governmental organizations, experts, governments, and inter-governmental agencies concerned with ensuring the sustainability of biomass and biomaterial production and processing." 

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Platform on Disaster Displacement

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Platform on Disaster Displacement
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Platform on Disaster Displacement - PDD
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"The main objective of the Platform on Disaster Displacement is to follow-up on the work started by the Nansen Initiative consultative process, and to implement the  recommendations of the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda, endorsed by 109 governmental delegations during a Global Consultation in October 2015. The Protection Agenda offers States a toolbox to better prevent and prepare for displacement before a disaster strikes, as well as to better respond to situations when people are forced to find refuge, either within their own country or across an international border."

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Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)

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Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)
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Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) - GGKP
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"The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business, and finance professionals and organisations committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green economy."

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Gold Standard

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Gold Standard
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Gold Standard - GSF
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"Established in 2003 by WWF, The Gold Standard is the only certification standard trusted and endorsed by more than 80 NGOs worldwide. Its 'results based finance' approach - in which individuals, corporations and governments buy credits against verified emission reductions and sustainable development outcomes – is channelling more than half a billion Euros into 900+ low carbon development projects that would otherwise not have gone ahead."

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Better Cotton Initiative - BCI

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Better Cotton Initiative - BCI
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Better Cotton Initiative - BCI - BCI
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"The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) promotes measurable improvements in the key environmental and social impacts of cotton cultivation worldwide to make it more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. Established officially in 2009, BCI is multi-stakeholder, cooperating with organisations from across the cotton supply chain and other interested stakeholders.

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Oak Foundation

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Oak Foundation
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Oak Foundation
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"Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged."

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Zoï Environment Network

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Zoï Environment Network
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Zoï Environment Network - Zoï
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"Zoï is specialized in analyzing (“know”) and communicating (“tell”) frictions between the environment and society, and hereby eventually contributing to resolving them (“act”). We design creative information products for decision-making and provide assistance to local, regional and national authorities, corporations and individuals who are ready to find solutions to these complex environmental challenges. A spin-off of UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Zoï operates at arm’s length from international organisations, in particular with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)."