The 2011 Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Conference:  The Nexus of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility will be held at the Westin Grand Hotel from June 8- 10.   Elia Herman, Senior Associate for the Alliance for Global Conservation will be speaking at the luncheon of the pre-conference seminar on June 8.

For more information or to reserve a space please visit:

Online www.conferenceboard.org/sustainability2
email customer.service@conferenceboard.org
Phone 212 339 0345 8:30 am to 5:30 pm ET Monday through Friday

Download the full invitation here.

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Please join the Izaak Walton League of America (www.iwla.org/population) the Center for Environment and Population (www.cepnet.org), and the Alliance for Global Conservation (www.actforconservation.org), with Americans for UNFPA (www.americansforunfpa.org), for an informal lunch discussion.

The World at 7 Billion:  What It Means for Women and the Environment

Monday, May 9, 2011
12:30pm — 2:00pm

Americans for UNFPA, 370 Lexington, Suite 702
New York, NY 10017

Presentations

• Elia Herman, Senior Associate, Pew Environment Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts, to discuss “Women Heroes of Global Conservation”
  — an innovative woman-centered approach to global conservation of the Alliance for Global Conservation.
• Representatives from UNFPA and Americans for UNFPA will brief us on ways to get involved in “World at 7 Billion” activities.

Discussion following on

• How women are key allies on the world’s most pressing environment and development issues
• U.S. leadership funding and support for conservation and development programs worldwide

Space is limited, so please RSVP to let us know if you or a representative from your organization is able to attend.  Lunch will be served.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact:

Rebecca Wadler Lase, Izaak Walton League, (301) 548-0150 x243 or rwadler@iwla.org

Vicky Markham, Center for Environment and Population, (203) 966-3425 or vmarkham@cepnet.org

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On September 22, 2010 General Anthony Zinni (Ret.) and Lt. Col Beebe went to Washington DC to talk about the links between natural resources and security. The event also featured a report by the Center for New American Security entitled “Sustaining Security: How Natural Resources Influence National Security”

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Huffpost Green

Chinese state media say the world’s oldest panda has died at the age of 34.

The Global Times reported that Ming Ming had kidney failure. She had been living at a zoo or preserve in Guangdong province.

The China Panda Protection Center in Sichuan province said in a statement she died May 7, but it was reported only Tuesday in local media. More details about her were not available. Read more.

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The Guardian

A two-week marine survey conducted by scientists with Conservation International (CI) in Indonesia, along with local partners, led to the discovery of eight potentially new species of fish and a potentially new species of coral in the waters surrounding Bali island. Read more.

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Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, is focused on sustainably reducing hunger and poverty. Through Feed the Future, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) develops individual country implementation plans that detail U.S. government strategy for alleviating hunger in that region. The Alliance for Global Conservation, together with other development and conservation organizations, is working with USAID on a 4-part series that highlights the challenges and opportunities presented by integrating natural resources management into U.S. government efforts to develop sustainable, scalable solutions to food insecurity. A meeting will be held Thursday, April 7 in Washington, D.C. and via webinar. View the invitation

The Series
The Feed the Future Guide recognizes that “[e]nvironmental degradation and climate change are critical cross-cutting issues that can affect the sustainability of investments in agricultural development and food security, impede long-term economic growth, and adversely affect livelihoods and well being.” This event series, “Integrating Natural Resource Management and Climate Change into Feed the Future,” will seek to articulate some of the challenges and opportunities that integration of these issues poses, and present successful program approaches and tools for working across the disciplines of climate change, Natural resource management, and food security. The series will share relevant tools, lessons learned, and recommend best practices in the areas of soil, water, nutrition, and climate change resilience and will seek to raise the profile of these cross-cutting issues and their critical linkages to food security.

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LA Times

By Shannon Beebe

It has become apparent that real piracy is far different from the lighthearted subject sometimes portrayed in popular culture, and the problem is growing much worse. Besides the tragic cost in lives, the U.S., many other nations and NATO spent roughly $2 billion combined last year to safeguard the busy international sea lanes off the Horn of Africa from Somali pirates. According to the International Maritime Bureau, “hijackings off the coast of Somalia accounted for 92% of all ship seizures last year,” and the price tag does not include the costs of reallocating critical military resources.

Sadly, much of this could have been avoided had the world made a stronger commitment to conservation and environmental protection years earlier. Somalia provides a classic example of how problems related to poverty and the environment are increasingly evolving into traditional international security risks.  Read the full article

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Alliance for Global Conservation Huffington Post Blog

By Anne Hallum and Rachel Hallum-Montes

In 1991, my 9-year-old daughter Rachel traveled with me to Guatemala where we were struck by the heartbreaking rural poverty and mudslides worsened by widespread deforestation. Read more.

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BBC News

By Richard Black

Three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, climate change and other factors, says a major new assessment. Read more.

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Mongabay.com

By Jeremy Hance

Many American children under ten spend their free time watching TV and moves, playing video games, or participating in sports, but for siblings Carter (9 years old) and Olivia Ries (8) much of their time is devoted to saving the world’s imperiled species.  The organization One More Generation (OMG) not only has a clever name (yes, it is meant to pun the common Oh-My-God acronym), but may have the two youngest founders of any environmental organization in the US.  Read more.

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