News: AIT AND G20 GLI HOST GLOBAL TRAINING ON URBAN PLANNING TOOLS FOR LAND RESTORATION
Description: AIT and the G20 Global Land Initiative hosted a fiveday training program on urban planning tools for land restoration, attended by 21 participants from 17 countries. The program focused on sustainable urban planning, featuring hands-on sessions, workshops, and site visits. Participants learned about advanced technologies and methodologies to combat land degradation. đ https://ait.ac.th/2024/07/ait-and-g20-gli-host-
global-training-on-urban-planning-tools-for-landrestoration/
LIVING DELTAS RESEARCH HUB: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE DELTA FUTURES
Description: The Living Deltas Research Hub is funded for five years (2019-2024) and operates across four delta systemsâ the Red River and Mekong deltas in Vietnam and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna system in Bangladesh and India. We call these socio-ecological systems. The Living Deltas Hubâs AIM is to tackle the problem of delta degradation in the face of multiple threats (sea level rise and saline intrusion, mangrove degradation and loss of coastal buffering, climate change, population rise, land use changes, saline intrusion and communities health and
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well-being, and unsustainable engineering interventions like damming and sand mining). GCRF also aims at helping delta countries to better achieve their UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Voluntary National Review agendas. The Hub aims to achieve its objectives via a process of CAPACITY-BUILDING through EQUITABLE PARTNERSHIPâonly by doing its part will the Hub have a legacy beyond its five-year funding period. As such, this is an extremely ambitious research programâthe most ambitious that the UK Research Councils have done up to now. The Hub is truly interdisciplinary and brings together
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