Bamboo: A Natural Climate Solution in the Global South
Discover the power of bamboo as a nature-based solution, offering sustainable benefits such as low-carbon alternatives, income generation, and ecosystem services. Learn how organizations like INBAR are fostering South-South cooperation for bamboo development in countries like China, Netherlands, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Explore the transformative impact of initiatives like the Dutch-Sino-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme in enhancing climate resilience and building capacity through training and technology transfer.
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Bamboo: a natural climate solution in the Global South UNOSSC webinar | 23 Sept 2020 Charlotte King International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation
Why bamboo? A common resource to the Global South Fast-growing, versatile Used for thousands of years
Bamboo: a nature-based solution Nature-based solutions: actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore ecosystems, that simultaneously provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits - IUCN Low-carbon and easily renewable plastic alternative Source of income for millions of people Bamboo plants and products can store more carbon than certain types of tree Affordable, renewable energy: firewood, charcoal, gas, pellets Important ecosystem services, + source of food & habitat Sustainable & resilient housing
INBAR: a network for South-South cooperation South-South in Action: Inspiring Sustainable Development with Bamboo (UNOSCC-INBAR report, 2017) Founded 1997; the UN of bamboo 47 Member States; 46 from the Global South 40,000 people trained Projects, research and study visits conducted in 50+ countries
Programme funded by IFAD, 2016-2023 China: bamboo market leader; bamboo for poverty alleviation, reforestation & environmental protection Netherlands: private sector experience of high-value product creation Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda: 3-4% world s bamboo, but underdeveloped sector Aims: build climate resilience, strengthen bamboo value chains, build capacity Dutch-Sino-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme
Bamboo construction training in Kenya; propagation workshop in Uganda South-South and triangular cooperation in action : Resource assessments for bamboo w/ Chinese expertise Built capacity & transferred technology Conferences at Wageningen University & in China Built market links to Europe New China-Africa Bamboo centre; Bamboo Strategies developed by the governments of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda; important COVID-19 livelihood option So far: the Dutch-Sino-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme Bamboo planting in Ethiopia
Thank you! www.inbar.int #thinkbamboo Charlotte King cking@inbar.int | @_chakin
