Invitation to the International Ecological Economics Conference

A sunset scene over a tropical forest in Columbia.
Tropical forest in Columbia. Photo by Niels van Altena on Unsplash

CALS PhD student in Sustainable Development, Policy, Economics and Governance and Gund Institute Graduate Fellow Lizah Makombore serves as an elected student member of the board of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). Continue reading “Invitation to the International Ecological Economics Conference”

Centering Agroecology in the Conservation of Biodiversity at COP15

Three photos showing a frog, a leaf vein and an overhead view of a river basin.
Photo source: UN Biodiversity Conference: COP15 in Montreal

Between December 5 and 9 of 2022, a coalition of organizations including UVM’s Agroecology & Livelihoods Collaborative (soon to be the Institute for Agroecology) headed to Montreal to participate in the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15, for short). Continue reading “Centering Agroecology in the Conservation of Biodiversity at COP15”