Environment

More than 80 governments, organisations and private companies have signed up for a new Global Partnership for the Oceans at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The World Bank initiative focuses on reducing pollution, protecting habitat and sustainable fishing.

Climate change has had a devastating impact on coffee farmers in Peru with torrential rain and flooding destroying their crops. Cafedirect's ground breaking reforestation project is helping to mitigate these problems and create an innovative sustainable financing solution.

The Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem Project is an ecosystem based effort to assist countries adjacent to the Guinea Current Ecosystem to achieve environmental and resource sustainability. This would be accomplished by shifting from short-term sector by sector driven management objectives to a longer-term perspective and from managing commodities to sustaining the production potential for ecosystem-wide goods and services.