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Land degradation in Southern Africa has been driven by multiple natural and human-induced processes including soil erosion, unsustainable agricultural practices, tree harvesting for charcoal production, contamination, pollution and biodiversity loss. The effects have negatively impacted the livelihoods of a significant proportion of the region’s population that relies on subsistence…

This paper deals primarily with the third dimension, i.e. options for the financing of land technology transfer. Since most environmental technology development as measured by patenting activity is concentrated in industrialized countries – yet with some middle-income economies such as China and Saudi Arabia also becoming major innovators in land-based technologies – this paper…

Technology transfer, as defined by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), constitutes “...a broad set of processes covering the flows of know-how, experience and equipment for mitigating and adapting to climate change amongst different stakeholders such as governments, private sector entities, financial institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and research/education institutions...”2…

A new book showcases opportunities in the tropics for bioenergy production that restores land, secures food and improves livelihoods, focusing on Indonesia. The International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change see ‘biological energy’ or ‘bioenergy’ — that is, energy derived from plants and other organic material — as a central part of achieving Net Zero…

Despite societal and academic interest in transformative change and growing acknowledgement of such a need in international policy arenas, it is indeed far from clear how to enable, achieve or accelerate transformative biodiversity governance. A recently published open-access book aims to provide and further develop a governance perspective on achieving transformative change. Titled, …

This 2022 edition of Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report assesses achievements in the global quest for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. At today’s rate of progress, the world is still not on track to achieve the SDG 7 goals by 2030. Advances have been impeded, particularly in the most vulnerable countries and those that were already lagging…