Publications

Nature-Positive Infrastructure: Mainstreaming Biodiversity to Safeguard People and the Planet full program

Asia is experiencing the highest infrastructure investment rates globally, led by transportation and energy sector expansion. Yet much of this planned infrastructure will bisect some of the world‚'s most biodiverse areas and potentially decrease human and ecological resilience to climate change and degrade vital natural resources that people depend upon for their livelihoods.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing funding over four years to increase implementation of effective safeguards for linear infrastructure in Asia ‚ – including roads, railroads, power lines, fences, and canals.  The ALIGN Project will help enhance the capacity of countries to avoid, lessen or mitigate adverse impacts from linear infrastructure development through strengthened policies and practices, shared knowledge, and increased capacity.

The ALIGN Project will be implemented by WWF, the global conservation organization, in partnership with the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, a nonprofit with expertise in reducing the impacts of linear infrastructure on biodiversity. The project will support efforts in three focal countries ‚ – India, Mongolia, and Nepal ‚ – and share lessons learned, guidance, and training materials on best practices across Asia.

The Basel Institute on Governance undertook targeted sector-level political economy analyses (PEAs) in three countries to understand why corruption risks may emerge in investigations and prosecutions of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) cases. The experience showed that PEAs can help practitioners better understand corruption risks in a specific context, complementing data from other analyses like corruption risk assessments (CRAs). Using these two analytic approaches together helps design and implement mitigation measures that take prevailing political and power dynamics into account, identifying windows of opportunity for addressing corruption risks and highlighting strategically important stakeholders that may support or oppose the intervention.

For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

Indoor soilless farming aims to reduce many of the more harmful effects of conventional field farming, including decreasing pressures on land, biodiversity, natural habitat, and climate. However, these indoor farms often have large energy footprints, are still figuring out the best way to support local communities and need support to share experiences and move the industry forward.

In the Phase I Innovation Analysis, WWF looked at how we might address some of these challenges and help bring these systems to scale.

In Phase II, WWF has used that research as a springboard for action. This report describes Phase II activities, including:

• forming the St. Louis Controlled Environment Agriculture (STLCEA) Coalition;
• analyzing innovative energy systems utilizing various stranded assets;
• exploring potential partnerships;
• soliciting and evaluating proposals from indoor farms interested in building and running a pilot indoor farm;
• choosing an indoor farm partner to bring an integrated system to the St. Louis region;
• exploring the feasibility of a Center of Excellence (CoE) on indoor farming in the St. Louis region; and
• kicking off the CoE‚'s initial projects and developing a long-term vision.

On International Anti-Corruption Day 2022, we recognize the determination of women who are taking remarkable steps to address corruption through conservation programming. Daniela Gomel is a public policy and governance specialist at Fundacion Vida Silvestre, a WWF partner organization in Argentina. She manages the policy and governance dimensions of several projects related to forests, protected areas, plastics and climate change. Daniela also coordinates a Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) pilot project that focuses on promoting transparency and sharing learning to address corruption that undermines effective governance in the fisheries sector, particularly at the capture stage.

For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

Recognizing the determination of women who are taking remarkable steps to address corruption through conservation programming. Their challenges and contexts are all different, but their stories reinforce a common understanding--only by addressing corruption behind environmental crimes, supply chain threats, and natural resource governance challenges, can we safeguard a future for communities, wildlife, fisheries and forests. Their stories inspire us to think and program differently for strengthened results.

For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

On International Anti-Corruption Day 2022, we recognize the determination of women who are taking remarkable steps to address corruption through conservation programming. Renata Cao's work focuses on supporting World Wildlife Fund (WWF) offices in the Latin America region to advance their counter wildlife trafficking agendas and to facilitate coordinated responses, build regional technical capacities, and forge strategic partnerships.

For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

On International Anti-Corruption Day 2022, we recognize the determination of women who are taking remarkable steps to address corruption through conservation programming. Shambhavi Poudel leads the Campaigns and Education Unit at WWF Nepal. She works closely with children and young people, placing them at the core of conservation interventions. She recently helped to design a new pilot activity under the TNRC project that focuses on mobilizing youth to promote good community forest governance.

For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

Transparent 2022 is the third annual report from ReSource: Plastic, providing an update on how Member companies are addressing plastic pollution and identifying new opportunities to maximize impact.