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Welcome to IPSI Live Updates!
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IPSI’s mini newsletter and your source for important events! Take a look at what is coming up this September.
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- IPSI Decade Report: Open Call for Photos
- Second Event of the Satoumi and Ecosystem Restoration Symposium series
- Landcare Europe Event on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
- BIOPAMA open call for proposals
- RCE Youth Biodiversity Art Challenge
- FAO Agroforestry Capacity Needs Assessment
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IPSI Decade Report: Open Call for Photos
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To commemorate a decade since the establishment of IPSI, we will launch the IPSI Decade Report in the upcoming CBD COP15 in December. The report will present all the amazing work IPSI members have done in the past decade and the impacts your work had towards creating societies in harmony with nature.
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To better showcase your work, we would like IPSI members to submit photographs of their work with SEPLS!
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The images must comply with one of the following criteria:
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- IPSI members must own the rights to the image or have permission from the owner/photographer to distribute it. State to whom credit should be given.
Submit to ipsicomms@unu.edu by 12 September
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Contact us for more information.
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Second Symposium on Community-based Activities and Governance for Seascape Restoration
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The symposium will be the second in the Satoumi and Ecosystem Restoration Symposium series. Focusing on blue carbon systems restoration—mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes—and citizen science application, the symposium will feature practitioners of blue carbon ecosystem restoration from around the world and discuss how we can enhance and strengthen restoration efforts.
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The IPSI Secretariat is co-organising this event in partnership with the Ocean Policy Research Institute, the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, and the UN University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
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Landcare Europe Online Event on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
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Landcare Europe in cooperation with Prof. Mauro Agnoletti from the University of Firenze and the FAO GIAHS Secretary will inform you about Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), with a particular focus on designations in Europe. Experts and beneficiaries will tell you about the importance of GIAHS, the application procedure, challenges, and benefits of a designation. 🍇
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Registration deadline is 13 September.
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Time: 16:00 – 18:00 pm CEST
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BIOPAMA Call for Proposals: Small Technical Grant 2022 - Caribbean
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Photo Credits: BIOPAMA
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🌴BIOPAMA opened a call for proposals for projects in the Caribbean with a focus on improving the management and governance of protected and conserved areas, and the sustainable use of natural resources and livelihoods of surrounding local communities.
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Apply by 30 September 2022.
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Submissions Open: RCE Youth Biodiversity Art Challenge
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📣Calling all young eco-artists! Share your voice through art and inspire others to take action on conserving biodiversity. Unleash your creativity and have your work seen by a global audience!
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The Global RCE Service Centre at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), in partnership with UNESCO, is now accepting submissions for the RCE Youth Biodiversity Art Challenge!🎨🖌️
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The challenge is open to anyone aged 35 or younger worldwide. We’re looking for your creative works of art that put a spotlight on the species, habitats, and ecosystems that we need to work to protect.
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Submissions close on 30 September 2022
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing an Agroforestry Capacity Needs Assessment aimed at anyone involved in agroforestry-related activities around the world. The objectives of this survey are to:
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🌲 Provide a baseline of existing agroforestry capacities globally
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✍️ Identify strengths, gaps, needs, and barriers to successful agroforestry design, implementation, and scaling up and out
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🛣️ Guide FAO’s capacity development efforts on agroforestry, to the benefit of all involved
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The survey will take around 20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 15 September 2022. Responses will be treated with strict confidentiality.
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Let us know if there are any changes in your e-mail address or contact information.
Secretariat of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) 5–53–70 Jingumae Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925 Japan
Tel: +81 3-5467-1212 Fax: +81 3-3499-2828 Email: isi@unu.edu
If you have been forwarded this newsletter and would like to SUBSCRIBE, you can do so on the IPSI website here.
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The activities of the IPSI Secretariat are made possible through the financial contribution of the Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan
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