Promoting Market Access

We work with businesses, industries and others to promote sustainable, locally produced goods and services known as biotrade.

UNION FOR ETHICAL BIOTRADE

The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) brings together actors committed to business practices that contribute in a systematic way towards sustainable development and biodiversity conservation, constituting the flagship association for the Ethical BioTrade movement. The UEBT promotes, facilitates and recognizes ethical trade practices in goods that meet the sustainable development goals in the Convention of Biological Diversity. Members are from a wide range of industries, including cosmetics and personal care products, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, complementary medicine, and fashion and accessories.

STORIES OF IMPACT

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    Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to Preserve World Heritage

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    Meet Lizbeth Pool Uc, co-founder of Flor de Tajonal, a women’s cooperative in the small town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico that makes and sells honey and honey products.  For generations, Lizbeth’s family has been keeping bees, one of the oldest economic activities of the Yucatan’s Mayan people and an important part of their ceremonial life.   

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    Could you survive on 13 liters of water a day?

    Area of Involvement: Women & Population;Sustainable Development

    (Part seven of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Driving to the Mai-Aini UNHCR refugee camp, two things struck me: the beautiful but barren mountains, and the dozens of broken-down tanks left behind from war. A young interpreter from Axum shared with me his theory that water is the reason for war.

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RESOURCES

  1. UN Foundation Newsletter (Fall 2009)

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Issue Area: Sustainable Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    Issue Area: UN-US Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    A semi-annual newsletter highlighting the UN Foundation's programs and people.

  2. UN Foundation Newsletter (Spring 2009)

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Issue Area: Sustainable Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    Issue Area: UN-US Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    A semi-annual newsletter highlighting the UN Foundation's programs and people.

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