NAIROBI, 23 February 2011: Two projects conserving forests and promoting sustainable development in remote rural communities of Latin America and Asia are the laureates (prisvindere) of the 2010-11 UNEP Sasakawa Prize, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced Wednesday.
The Asociación Forestal Integral San Andrés, Petén (AFISAP) in Guatemala and the Manahari Development Institute in Nepal (MDI-Nepal) are the co-winners of this year’s award around the theme “Forests for People, Forests for Green Growth” in support of the 2010-11 International Year of the Forests.
The theme highlights the central role of forests in the pursuit of a global Green Economy as key economic resources whose real value has all too often been excluded in national accounts of profit and loss.
Estimates from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) indicate that deforestation and forest degradation are likely costing the global economy a stunning amount of money: between 2,5 and 4,5 trillion US dollar a year, more than the losses of the recent and ongoing financial crisis.
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