Activities
Our projects are seeds of change. Each one is co-created with partners, grounded in place, and designed to shift systems for both people and nature.
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Seafloor habitats
Maps of seafloor habitats are important predictors of biodiversity and a key input into marine spatial planning
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Source to Seas – Zero Pollution 2030
SOS-ZEROPOL2030 aims to develop a holistic zero pollution framework to guide the process towards achieving zero pollution in European seas
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Media Empowerment for Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations (INC)
A media initiative aimed at empowering journalists from the Global South to effectively cover the INC.
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Awareness and Capacity Building for Women in the Informal Recycling Sector
GRID-Arendal and the Kisumu Waste Pickers Welfare Association in Kenya will work to empower women waste pickers.
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Investigative Environmental Journalism Grants
Increasing awareness of environmental crime issues through financial support to investigative environmental journalists
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UNESCO Exhibition Glaciers on the Edge: preserving our global heritage
UNESCO and GRID-Arendal jointly developed “Glaciers on the Edge” featuring a selection of iconic glaciers located in Natural Heritage Sites.
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Green Constructive Journalism
GRID trains and supports journalists to cover climate, nature, and pollution through the lens of constructive, solutions-focused journalism.
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AFRIPAC: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa
Aiming to empower 5 African nations to inform negotiations for the global plastics treaty by increasing knowledge, capacity & collaboration.
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SEA-Quester
Bringing together 10 research institutions from across the Arctic to study the phenomenon of “polar blue carbon”.
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International policy development to combat marine litter
Marine litter and plastic pollution are global issues that affect the whole world.
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Plastics and Climate Change: policy recommendations
GRID-Arendal and partners have initiated a project to provide recommendations for how to better deliver on the climate agenda.
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Blue Guardians
The Blue Guardians program is an international partnership to enhance climate resiliency for Small Island Developing States with a focus…
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Mapping and communication
Developing innovative tools to communicate using maps
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The Pacific CTCN
Capacity development to access risks in the coastal zone associated with climate change
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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel at UNEA 5.2
GRID-Arendal is one of the leading institutes supporting an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel to take action on chemicals, waste and pollution at the upcoming UNEA 5.2. We, together with backing from the Norwegian Minister for Climate and Environment Espen Barth Eide, the Norwegian government and a whole range of scientists investigating the impacts of pollution on…
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SeaBee
Norwegian Infrastructure for Drone-based research, mapping and monitoring in the coastal zone
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Norwegian Blue Forests Network (NBFN)
The network’s goal is to advance the blue forest approach in addressing climate change and meeting the SDGs
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NIMPA +
The 9,500 km2 Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area (NIMPA) is an iconic area of outstanding marine biodiversity.
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Reclaim: Finding the heart of the circular economy
GRID-Arendal’s Waste and Marine Litter Program aims to produce a short film (15 minutes) about waste management in Africa.
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Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to End Plastic Pollution (INC)- Fifth session
The fifth session for a global plastics agreement
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Towards Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Nepal
Promoting socially inclusive, climate-resilient agriculture to address growing risks to global food security due to climate change.
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Vanishing Treasures programme
Globally, around one million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction…
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Plastic Action is Climate Action
The exhibition ‘Plastic Action is Climate Action’ was presented on MEA Day at UNEA-6 in Nairobi, Kenya.