12/05/2014A Plea from International Environmental NGOs to Support the Rehabilitation and the Sustainable De-velopment of the Jordan River
During the 14th International Living Lakes Conference held from the 19th to the 23rd of November in Nanchang - China, Global Nature Fund handed EcoPeace Middle East with a Declaration of Non-Governmental Organizations Supporting the Rehabilitation and the Sustainable Development of the Jordan River.
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11/27/2014Marion Hammerl, President of Global Nature Fund opens 3rd World Economic Conference on Low carbon Eco-Economy in Nanchang, China.
Last weekend Nanchang China was the location for the 3rd World Economic Conference on Low-carbon EcoEconomy. Marion Hammerl, president of Global Nature Fund, based in Radolfzell, Germany, opened this conference together with Qiang Wei, secretary of Jangxi Provincial Party Committee, Han Qide, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, representatives of neighboring provinces, from different countries and from science and economy. 5,000 participants from companies, administration, policy, and associations from economy met to discuss chances and processes of ecological economy, made contacts and sought for solutions for ongoing challenges.
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11/27/201414th Living Lakes Conference in Nanchang – China closes with strong
commitment for protection of lakes worldwide
350 delegates from 33 countries out of five continents followed the Jiangxi Academy of Sciences and Mountain River Lake Sustainable Developments invitation to Nanchang, Southern China, at the edge of Poyang Hu, Chinas larges freshwater lake. Here they exchanged on protection of lakes worldwide and on new approaches for successful management of lake egions. The delegates approved a common understanding on the urgency to foster the protection of lakes worldwide.
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- 10/23/2014
Baseline study analyses how CSR standards for tourism include biodiversity criteria
An analysis of how measures to protect biodiversity are integrated into tourism Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards and awards has been published by adelphi, ECOTRANS e.V. and the Global Nature Fund. The study, supported by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) as part of a research and development Project, draws conclusions on how biodiversity protection can be better integrated into standards’ and awards’ criteria.
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- 03/10/2014
New solar-power stations for people that live off-grid in Kenya
Osram and the Global Nature Fund, together with their local partner Light for Life, are expanding considerably the Kenya off-grid project that was first launched in 2008. In future, residents of off-grid areas in the West of the country will be able to visit a total of eight solar-powered energy stations, so called "WE!Hubs", where they will have access to environmentally friendly lighting, computers and clean drinking water. Three similar hubs already exist, and the first station of the expansion phase was inaugurated on Monday in Honge at Lake Victoria. "The expansion underlines the acceptance of our innovative approach for regions in which people don’t have access to the power grid. The project combines social engagement, environmental consciousness and economic viability in a unique way," said Peter Laier, Managing Board member responsible for technology at OSRAM Licht AG.
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- 01/30/2014
Intensive fish farming threatens Philippine crater lake - Lake Sampaloc is "Threatened Lake of the Year 2014"
The environmental foundation Global Nature Fund (GNF) proclaims the Philippine’s Lake Sampaloc and the six other crater lakes in San Pablo City, Province Laguna, as the "Threatened Lake of the Year 2014". In commemoration of World Wetlands Day, the GNF draws attention to the advancing destruction of the crater lakes. Together, GNF and the local Living Lakes partner organisation, Friends of the Seven Lakes Foundation (FSLF), demand for sustainable measures to protect Lake Sampaloc and to improve its water quality.
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- 12/13/2013
Israeli Minister Silvan Shalom misleading the public
A conventional desalination project with a regional "water exchange" aspect is being signed today; NOT the "Red Dead Canal" project
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07/24/2013Celebration of Mother Sea
Event on the lakeshore of Lake Hovsgol in Mongolia
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- 06/11/2013
Water unites
International Network Living Lakes celebrates its 15th anniversary
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- 03/20/2013
Drinking water, is it on everyone’s lips? – Pilot projects during the World Water Year 2013
During the World Water Year 2013, Global Nature Fund (GNF) demonstrates by means of successful pilot projects, how people in regions all over the world that were previously undersupplied finally get access to clean drinking water.
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