Deadline: February 26, 2019
Nominations are open for the UNDP Equator Initiative Prize 2019. The Equator Prize 2019 will be awarded to outstanding local community and indigenous peoples’ initiatives that advance innovative nature-based development solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The winners will join a prestigious network of 223 leading community-based organizations from 78 countries that have been awarded the Equator Prize since 2002.
Winning initiatives will be honored for their successes in:
- Protecting, restoring and/or sustainably managing terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and thereby help mitigate and adapt to climate change by keeping ecosystems intact, and/or
- Promoting local models for climate-smart food and agricultural production systems, and/or
- Advancing nature-based alternatives to a carbon economy.
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