Climate Friendly Travel
As the Registrar of the climate friendly travel registry, I am advocating that the tourism industry makes plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, in line with all Nationally Determined…
As the Registrar of the climate friendly travel registry, I am advocating that the tourism industry makes plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, in line with all Nationally Determined…
A climate resilient society has the capacity to deal with the effects of climate change, while responding to these changes with new approaches. The use of bamboo is one of…
Last week, I was part of the inaugural SUNx Malta 2020 Climate Friendly Travel and Tourism Think Tank with 35 global thought leaders from the travel and tourism sector. We…
I just attended the first Ibero Bamboo Symposium in Madrid , where I talked about bamboo in Europe. Planning for the symposium started in 2018, when I was the Director-General…
For the past five years, I was the head of the Secretariat of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (www.inbar.int) in Beijing, PR China. I stepped down in April this…
INBAR is an organisation of 44 Governments that believe in bamboo and rattan, and we are constantly in touch with existing member states and potential new members. Let me give…
This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) took place in Beijing, China. The event, hosted by President Xi Jinping brought together delegations from Africa and China led by their Heads…
The first Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress, BARC 2018, opened on 25th June 2018, in Beijing, China. Although it is already two months ago, I want to use this moment…
Happy New Year from the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation Last weekend, I attended the China Council for International Cooperation for Environment and Development (CCICED) as delegate and international Member….
Last week, I was asked to be panellist at the closing session of the World Congress on Agroforestry in Delhi. The topic for the panel discussion was agroforestry and the…
