Nguyen Thi Thu Trang Keywords green development marine debris environment plastic pollution circular economy waste management data collection plastic value chain project management Read more about Nguyen Thi Thu Trang Trang is Co-Founder and Deputy Director of the Centre for Supporting Green Development (GreenHub), a Vietnamese NGO. She is trained as an expert in marine waste management, leading projects on plastic pollution, environment, and development for 15 years, promoting partnerships and information networks between government, business, and civil society. Her collective action expertise has been applied as an invited trainer of plastic waste management in Asia Pacific.
Gretchen Daily Keywords environmental sciences green development finance management agriculture and natural resources smart agriculture Read more about Gretchen Daily TITLE: Co-founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project, Bing Professor of Environmental Science; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute. Gretchen C. Daily is co-founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project, a global partnership whose goal is to integrate the values of nature into planning, policy, finance, and management. Its tools and approaches are now applied in 185 nations through NatCap's free, open-source InVEST Software Platform.
Synergy of Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection: UN Case Studies and Lessons Learned Read more about Synergy of Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection: UN Case Studies and Lessons Learned What key lessons can the UN offer to solve the poverty-environment issues of the People’s Republic of China?
Setting the Social and Environmental Agenda in China: Why is it Important? Read more about Setting the Social and Environmental Agenda in China: Why is it Important? Prof. Zuo Ting of the China Agricultural University and the China Center for Poverty Reduction and Development discussed three main topics: (i) the general situation of poverty in the PRC; (ii) poverty incidence in poverty-stricken areas and environmental sensitive areas; and (iii) eco-protection for poverty reduction agenda after 2015. Since 1980, development and anti-poverty initiatives in the PRC have made great achievements—e.g., 70 million people in the country have been taken out of poverty, and poverty incidence rate fell from 43.1% to 13.0% in 2010.