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UNDP Administrator to discuss support for Brazil's advancement of SDGs

UNDP Administrator to discuss support for Brazil's advancement of SDGs
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Brazil , Brazilian , Marcelo-thom , Mauro-vieira , Rodrigo-pacheco , Francisco-gaetani , Marcio-pochmann , Guy-ryder , Instituto-amaz , Marina-silva , Luiz-roberto-barroso , Claudio-providas

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon's bioeconomy showcases

A handful of pioneering Amazonian chocolatiers are promoting keeping the rainforest standing by taking advantage of two forest products: cacao and cupuaçu.

Brazil , Bahia , Portugal , United-states , Theobroma , Rondô , Rome , Lazio , Italy , America , Brazilian , Portuguese

EBP-Colombia and the bioeconomy: Genomics in the service of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development

The 2016 Peace Agreement has increased access to Colombia’s unique ecosystems, which remain understudied and increasingly under threat. The Colombian government has recently announced its National Bioeconomic Strategy (NBS), founded on the sustainable characterization, management, and conservation of the nation's biodiversity as a means to achieve sustainability and peace. Molecular tools will accelerate such endeavors, but capacity remains limited in Colombia. The Earth Biogenome Project's (EBP) objective is to characterize the genomes of all eukaryotic life on Earth through networks of partner institutions focused on sequencing either specific taxa or eukaryotic communities at regional or national scales. Colombia’s immense biodiversity and emerging network of stakeholders have inspired the creation of the national partnership “EBP-Colombia.” Here, we discuss how this Colombian-driven collaboration between government, academia, and the private sector is integrating research with sustainable, environmentally focused strategies to develop Colombia’s postconflict bioeconomy and conserve biological and cultural diversity. EBP-Colombia will accelerate the uptake of technology and promote partnership and exchange of knowledge among Colombian stakeholders and the EBP’s global network of experts; assist with conservation strategies to preserve Colombia’s vast biological wealth; and promote innovative approaches among public and private institutions in sectors such as agriculture, tourism, recycling, and medicine. EBP-Colombia can thus support Colombia’s NBS with the objective of sustainable and inclusive development to address the many social, environmental, and economic challenges, including conflict, inequality, poverty, and low agricultural productivity, and so, offer an alternative model for economic development that similarly placed countries can adopt.

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Flowers! | EurekAlert! Science News

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VIDEO: What happened in the tropics when an asteroid hit the planet and how did it shape today's rainforests?
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Credit: Monica Carvalho
Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the world's climate systems. A new study published today in
Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future.
The study led by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) shows that the asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests.

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