REDD+ aims to provide funding to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. It has expanded to include conservation, sustainable forest management, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. Forested wetlands could make large contributions to carbon sequestration and storage but realizing their potential faces challenges, including developing robust monitoring of carbon, biodiversity, and socioeconomic impacts, and ensuring participation and benefits for local communities. Practical guidance is needed to implement restoration that achieves multiple objectives of carbon sequestration, ecosystem services, and community support.
Could the SDGs help save wetlands? Can wetlands help achieve the SDGs?Wetlands International
This slide show presents Wetlands International's position on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and wetlands. Wetlands will play a role in achieving at least 7 of the 17 SDGs and are an indispensible link connecting the ecosystems the SDGs seek to protect and restore.
Biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions: A view from re/insuranceCesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Oliver Schelske, Swiss Re Institute, Director, Natural Assets & ESG Research Lead, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
Accelerating Climate Initiatives: Building the business case for Nature-based...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Rachel Terry, Programme Lead – Climate Initiatives, Van Oord, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
REDD in Asia - Challenges and OpportunitiesCIFOR-ICRAF
Can REDD+ achieve poverty alleviation and deliver conservation benefits for Great Apes? Laura D'Arcy from ZSL explores this question in a presentation she gave at the ‘Linking Great Ape Conservation with Poverty Alleviation’ workshop hosted by CIFOR in January 2012.
Learn how New Zealand protects its natural heritage, manages its bountiful resources, encourages business, and integrates indigenous beliefs into a national environmental program based on minimal legislation and watershed orientation.
Could the SDGs help save wetlands? Can wetlands help achieve the SDGs?Wetlands International
This slide show presents Wetlands International's position on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and wetlands. Wetlands will play a role in achieving at least 7 of the 17 SDGs and are an indispensible link connecting the ecosystems the SDGs seek to protect and restore.
Biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions: A view from re/insuranceCesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Oliver Schelske, Swiss Re Institute, Director, Natural Assets & ESG Research Lead, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
Accelerating Climate Initiatives: Building the business case for Nature-based...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Rachel Terry, Programme Lead – Climate Initiatives, Van Oord, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
REDD in Asia - Challenges and OpportunitiesCIFOR-ICRAF
Can REDD+ achieve poverty alleviation and deliver conservation benefits for Great Apes? Laura D'Arcy from ZSL explores this question in a presentation she gave at the ‘Linking Great Ape Conservation with Poverty Alleviation’ workshop hosted by CIFOR in January 2012.
Learn how New Zealand protects its natural heritage, manages its bountiful resources, encourages business, and integrates indigenous beliefs into a national environmental program based on minimal legislation and watershed orientation.
Presentation by Sofie Vandewoestijne, project advisor, EASME / European Commission, as part of the webinar "Nature-based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature and Climate – Lessons learned from China and globally."
Forestry and landscapes: Solutions for sustainable developmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Peter Holmgren, CIFOR's Director General, at the Bogor Agricultural Institute (Institut Pertanian Bogor or IPB), Indonesia, on February 17, 2017. Part of the IPB Talks series.
Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Co-hosted by IISD and the China Council for International Cooperation On Environment and Development (CCICED), this high-level virtual event fostered discussion of the evidence of nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and adaptation outcomes.
Generating income from mangroves through climate change mitigationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Dr. David Ganz from the USAID LEAF program given during the Forests Asia Summit in the discussion forum "Managing mangrove forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits" focuses on possible climate change mitigation activities, carbon financing and income for coastal communities for mangrove protection and conservation.
GENERAL: MIBOSQUE contributes to the reduction of local causes of climate change and environmental vulnerability by promoting governance of natural resources and self-sufficiency among populations in order to improve their living conditions
Objective 1 for 2009: That 110 communities and 11 municipalities manage and administer their renewable natural resources in a sustainable manner
Objective 2 for 2009: Build capacity in 11 local governments to administer the natural resources in their jurisdictions
Objective 3 for 2009: That 2200 families served by the project improve their incomes from activities related to forestry and agroforestry
Mangrove ecosystem services in the Mekong Delta: drivers and a rapid assessmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Le Thanh Loan, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, on 10 November 2020 at "International workshop: Enhancing wetland management and sustainable development"
Linkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin American f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Vanessa Evans , Bruno Locatelli , Andrew Wardell , Angela Andrade , and Raffaele Vignola,
Linkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin American forests.
Oaxaca Workshop
Forest Governance, Decentralisation and REDD+ in
Latin America and the Caribbean
31 August – 03 September 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Presentation by Sofie Vandewoestijne, project advisor, EASME / European Commission, as part of the webinar "Nature-based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature and Climate – Lessons learned from China and globally."
Forestry and landscapes: Solutions for sustainable developmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Peter Holmgren, CIFOR's Director General, at the Bogor Agricultural Institute (Institut Pertanian Bogor or IPB), Indonesia, on February 17, 2017. Part of the IPB Talks series.
Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Co-hosted by IISD and the China Council for International Cooperation On Environment and Development (CCICED), this high-level virtual event fostered discussion of the evidence of nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and adaptation outcomes.
Generating income from mangroves through climate change mitigationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Dr. David Ganz from the USAID LEAF program given during the Forests Asia Summit in the discussion forum "Managing mangrove forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits" focuses on possible climate change mitigation activities, carbon financing and income for coastal communities for mangrove protection and conservation.
GENERAL: MIBOSQUE contributes to the reduction of local causes of climate change and environmental vulnerability by promoting governance of natural resources and self-sufficiency among populations in order to improve their living conditions
Objective 1 for 2009: That 110 communities and 11 municipalities manage and administer their renewable natural resources in a sustainable manner
Objective 2 for 2009: Build capacity in 11 local governments to administer the natural resources in their jurisdictions
Objective 3 for 2009: That 2200 families served by the project improve their incomes from activities related to forestry and agroforestry
Mangrove ecosystem services in the Mekong Delta: drivers and a rapid assessmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Le Thanh Loan, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, on 10 November 2020 at "International workshop: Enhancing wetland management and sustainable development"
Linkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin American f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Vanessa Evans , Bruno Locatelli , Andrew Wardell , Angela Andrade , and Raffaele Vignola,
Linkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin American forests.
Oaxaca Workshop
Forest Governance, Decentralisation and REDD+ in
Latin America and the Caribbean
31 August – 03 September 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Facilitated by SNV, this event was held on April 24 to coincide with the Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW), which occured over April 21-26. The event featured a special Guest speaker - David Huberman - who was visiting Hanoi for the APFW - and focussed on REDD, the forestry mechanism proposed for the post-2012 UNFCCC protocol. Click on the link below to read his presentation.
Presentation by David Huberman
Forests and Climate Change: Linking Adaptation and MitigationCIFOR-ICRAF
There are two approaches to combating climate change, adaptation and mitigation, and forests can contribute to both. Too often these two approaches are treated as separate strategies. In this presentation, titled “Forests and Climate Change: Linking Adaptation and Mitigation”, CIFOR and CIRAD scientist Bruno Locatelli explains the possible synergies between adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.
Swedish International Biodiversity Programme (SwedBio)SIANI
On Thursday November 4th, 2010 SIANI convened a public seminar to discuss the complex issue of climate change and the linkage between the process behind the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the preparations for the next round of UNFCCC negotiations on climate change impact in Cancun.
Kishwan, J. (2011) REDD+ Negotiations: India’s PreparednesstheREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
Sharachchandra, L. (2011) India’s Policy towards REDD+: Dense Forest Ahead!theREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
Community Forestry International (2011) Umiam Sub-Watershed REDD+ Project, Me...theREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
De-mystifying Zero to One: Design Informed Techniques for Greenfield Innovati...
REDD+ and Wetlands
1. research for a sustainable future
REDD+ and wetlands: wetland human
interactions and the need for robust
science
Max Finlayson
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Charles Sturt University, Australia
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2. research for a sustainable future
REDD = Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation
United Nations Framework Convention for
Climate Change
UNFCCC
Alexander et al 2011. Restoration Ecology
19, 683-689. Institute for Land, Water and Society
5. Deforestation
Serious environmental problem in recent
times - importance of tropical forests in
greenhouse effect and conservation
1990-2005 forest area decreased by 13 million
hectares per year (FAO 2006) with major
consequences for climate and biodiversity
Now the second leading cause of greenhouse
gas emissions (after industrialisation)
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6. REDD
Introduced in 2005 at COP11 of UNFCCC to
establish a funding mechanism for reducing
carbon emissions and protecting forests
Fund-based or market-based approach to
assist developing countries meet emissions
obligations under the Clean Development
Mechanism - contribution of conservation,
afforestation, and reforestation
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7. REDD Policy
2007: Bali Action Plan - REDD expanded to
include sustainable management of forests
and enhancement of forest carbon stocks
= REDD+
2008: UN-REDD / World Bank Forest
Carbon Partnership Facility established to
help developing countries build capacity,
broaden stakeholder engagement, and
provide support for REDD+ readiness
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8. 2010 UNFCCC
almost unanimous agreement to crystallize
the REDD+ language to embrace
- policy approaches and incentives on
educing emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation
and the role of conservation, sustainable
management of forests and enhancement
of forest carbon stocks
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9. Dissent - opposition to using a market-based
approach (carbon credits) to finance REDD+,
delayed decision; continuing reliance on
bilateral and multilateral funding – POLICY
ISSUE
2008 & 2012 - Ramsar Convention – parties
expect UNFCCC to take the lead on REDD
even when affecting forested wetlands –
ANOTHER POLICY ISSUE
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10. 2010 Cancun Agreements
Creation of a Green Climate Fund and
guidance/safeguards for potential REDD+
donors/recipients during the “fast-start
finance” period post-2012 climate change
agreements
Until financing & monitoring mechanisms
have been agreed all potential REDD+
projects will continue to remain outside the
UNFCCC
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11. Goal
Primary goals of REDD+ are to reduce
emissions and sequester carbon in
forests, the 2010 Agreements include
activities that also provide multiple co-
benefits to biodiversity, ecosystem
functions, and local and indigenous
communities
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12. Implications for Forested
Wetlands
Sustainable management and enhancement
of carbon stocks in forested wetlands (such
as mangrove, peatland, and bottomland
forests) could make relatively large
contributions to global emission reductions
in the long-term.
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13. Although only a small percentage of the
world’s forests, they are some of the most
productive in terms of carbon storage as a
result of high above-ground biomass and
capacity to store carbon below-ground
- above-ground biomass in mangroves is
247.4t ha-1 (similar to tropical forests) while
carbon burial averages 181.3 gC m-2 year-1 or a
total of 29.0 TgC year-1 (Alongi 2009).
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14. Amount of long-term carbon storage
suggests that REDD+ funding for
conservation, management, and
restoration activities in forested wetlands
could reduce emissions and increase
global carbon storage, perhaps even more
than upland forests on a per hectare
basis.
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15. Tangible co-benefits of revitalized
mangrove forests extend to local and
indigenous communities that depend on
their goods and services (e.g. peat,
timber, fisheries, water, storm/climate
protection?
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16. Future Challenges
In practice, multiple objectives of REDD+
(carbon, biodiversity, ecosystems, and
communities) may not always be
synergistic or complementary, and there
may be significant trade-offs.
Lack of good governance is probably
single greatest factor inhibiting these
seemingly natural synergies.
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17. social preferences when translated into
action on the ground often fail to recognize
the connection between biodiversity,
ecosystem services, and sustainability
marginalization and limited land tenure
rights of local and indigenous communities
can reduce stakeholder involvement and
access to benefits
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18. Measuring, Reporting
& Verification
To be eligible for funding REDD+ activities
need to be cost-effective, would be
otherwise unfunded, and able to verify long-
term carbon sequestration
Technical support needed for designing and
implementing REDD+ projects; carbon,
biodiversity, ecosystem, and socio-
economic indicators.
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19. Benefits to Local and
Indigenous Communities
How to safeguard the rights and land tenure
of local and indigenous communities and
acquire full participation as stakeholders in
REDD+ activities…..
Clear land tenure could be a component of
REDD+ strategies or action plans to reduce
emissions and provide multiple co-benefits
to biodiversity, ecosystems, communities.
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20. The Convention on Biological
Diversity
Seeking information on safeguards for
biodiversity, including indicators to assess
the contribution of REDD+ to achieving
objectives of the Convention, and to assess
potential approaches to monitor impacts on
biodiversity from REDD+ and other
ecosystem-based activities for climate
change mitigation.
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21. Summary - policy
REDD+ has the potential to provide
funding for forest restoration that
contributes to climate change mitigation,
sustainable management, and carbon
stock enhancement.
Has expanded beyond activities that affect
carbon budgets to include those that
enhance ecosystem services and deliver
benefits to biodiversity and communities.
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22. Summary - science
Practical tools and guidance are required
for implementing restoration that can
sequester carbon and improve the
integrity and resilience of forest
ecosystems, and mechanisms are needed
to ensure that funding by international
donors reaches the communities and
individual
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23. Thank you
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