Posts by: Larissa Milo-Dale

Saint Lucia launches MGI-DE designed Environmental Information System

on August 25 2018

The MGI-DE con­sor­tium con­cep­tu­al­ized, designed, and imple­ment­ed a NEIS (Nation­al Envi­ron­men­tal Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem) for the gov­ern­ment of Saint Lucia. The NEIS is intend­ed to help Saint Lucia improve their capac­i­ty for report­ing to envi­ron­men­tal MEA’s (Mul­ti-Lat­er­al Envi­ron­men­tal Agree­ments)

The project was fund­ed by the GEF (Glob­al Envi­ron­men­tal Facil­i­ty) and exe­cut­ed for Saint Lucia with UN Envi­ron­ment […]

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DE Presents on Climate Finance at GLOBE 2018

on March 26 2018

DE Pres­i­dent, David Oswald, to pre­sent­ed on Cli­mate Finance with Glob­al Affairs Cana­da at GLOBE 2018. The pre­sen­ta­tion out­lined DE’s expe­ri­ence in work­ing on cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and adap­ta­tion projects that have been financed by var­i­ous forms of cli­mate finance.

Oth­er com­pa­nies rep­re­sent­ed on the pan­el were Windi­ga Energie (Mon­tre­al), Inter­na­tion­al Finan­cial Con­sul­tants (Wash­ing­ton, DC), and Cli­mate […]

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Fall 2017 SD Lecture 7: Why CSR is Bad and Design for Environment is Good

on February 19 2018

Fall 2017 — SD Lec­ture 7: Why CSR is Bad and Design for Envi­ron­ment is Good.

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Fall 2017 SD Lecture 6: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services – Decoupling the Economy from the Environment using Design

on February 19 2018

Fall 2017 — SD Lec­ture 6: Eco­nom­ic Val­u­a­tion of Ecosys­tem Ser­vices.

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SD Lecture 5: Social Capital and Sustainability — Non-Institutional Education and Social Agency of Our Planet

on February 19 2018

Social Cap­i­tal and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty — Non-Insti­­tu­­tion­al Edu­ca­tion and Social Agency

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Fall 2017 — SD Lecture 4: Global Land Degradation, a sleeper issue at the centre of things – Insights from the field to the UNCCD Plenary

on October 19 2017

Glob­al Land Degra­da­tion, a sleep­er issue at the cen­tre of things – Insights from the field to the UNCCD Ple­nary

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Fall 2017 — SD Lecture 3: Ecosystem Ecology and Sustainable Development – From Theory to Practice, Insights from first hand research and travels in Amazonia

on October 14 2017

Fall 2017 Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Lec­ture #3: Ecosys­tem Ecol­o­gy and Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment -From The­o­ry to Prac­tice, Insights from first hand research research and trav­els in Ama­zo­nia.

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Fall 2017 — SD Lecture 2: The Rio Conventions (UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD) — Three Key MEAs

on October 6 2017

Fall 2017 Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Lec­ture #2: Cli­mate Change, Bio­di­ver­si­ty, and Com­bat­ting Deser­ti­fi­ca­tion (Land Degra­da­tion) — The Rio Con­ven­tions: Key MEAs (Mul­ti-Lat­er­al Envi­ron­men­tal Agree­ments) for Glob­al Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment.

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Fall 2017 — SD Lecture 1: Big Storms, Big Problems in the Caribbean

on October 6 2017

Fall 2017 Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Lec­ture Series #1: Big Storms, Big Prob­lems — Cli­mate and the Caribbean: Adapt­ing to a Chang­ing Cli­mate, Insights From the Field.

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DE presents at UNCCD COP13 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

on September 11 2017

DE Pres­i­dent, David Oswald, was invit­ed to present at the UNCCD (Unit­ed Nations Con­ven­tion to Com­bat Deser­ti­fi­ca­tion) COP13 con­fer­ence being held in Ordos, Inner Mon­go­lia, Chi­na between Sep­tem­ber 6 to 16, 2017. David pre­sent­ed to the ple­nary for the CRIC (Com­mit­tee for the Review of the Imple­men­ta­tion of the Con­ven­tion) on […]

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