Dear Mountain Partnership members and friends,

 

The UNDP-led Equator Initiative has announced its global call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2023.

 

This year’s Equator Prize will recognize innovative initiatives from Indigenous Peoples and local communities that showcase approaches to implementing the newly-approved Global Biodiversity Framework, with an emphasis on nature-based solutions that achieve local sustainable development. Winning initiatives will be honoured for their successes in protecting, restoring and/or sustainably managing nature for nature-positive development outcomes. Thematic priorities include:

 

·       Creating a planetary safety net. Actions to protect, restore and/or sustainably manage ecosystems to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, enable community-based adaption to the impacts of climate change, and to ensure essential ecosystem services.

·       Redefining our relationship with nature: Actions that help to redefine our relationship with nature by putting nature at the heart of local development plans and policies, and by defending the rights of land and water defenders.

·       Creating a new green economy for people and planet. Actions to protect, restore and/or sustainably manage terrestrial, aquatic or marine ecosystems, biodiversity, and/or wildlife that sustains jobs and livelihoods, including through micro- and small green enterprises, and including the promotion of Indigenous economies.


Special consideration will be given to nominees working on ecosystem integrity, intactness and connectivity; intergenerational equity, and gender equality.

 

Each Equator Prize winner will receive USD 10 000 and will be supported to participate virtually in a series of policy dialogues and special events in the fall of 2023.

 

Nominations must be submitted by 20 March 2023, through the online nomination system. If you are having technical issues, please contact [log in to unmask]. Learn more about the Equator Prize 2023, selection criteria and eligibility requirements here.

 

Best regards,

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat

 

 

The Mountain Partnership is a voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain people

and protecting mountain environments around the world.

www.fao.org/mountain-partnership

 



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