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Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Adaptation and Mitigation
This report provides an overview of different projects that are being undertaken in Europe to mitigate and help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change using ecosystem-... -
Supporting the Transition to a Healthy Ocean
Finding and sharing effective ways to manage the ocean and the growing demand for marine resources is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. UNEP-WCMC... -
Using Spatial Information To Support Decisions On Safeguards And Multiple...
REDD+ has the potential to contribute to achieving more policy goals than climate mitigation alone. In Tanzania, REDD+ is expected to deliver multiple benefits, whose nature and... -
Mapping the potential for REDD+ to deliver biodiversity conservation In Viet Nam
UNEP-WCMC in partnership with SNV, have been working with collaborators from Green Field Consulting and Development, Research Centre for Forest Ecology and Environment, and the... -
Mapping Potential Biodiversity Benefits From REDD+ In the Democratic...
Many developing countries have started preparing for REDD+, including by setting goals for multiple benefits. These goals will need to be informed by the Cancun safeguards that... -
REDD+ Beyond Carbon: Supporting decisions on safeguards and multiple benefits
It is increasingly recognized that REDD+ can contribute to a range of policy goals in addition to climate change mitigation. It can promote biodiversity conservation and secure... -
Registro De Datos Útiles Para La Toma De Decisiones En Relación A REDD+ Y...
Efforts related to REDD+ in Bolivia are a component of the overall national strategy on forests and climate change. A UN-REDD Programme mission to Bolivia in 2010 identified a... -
Opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation through REDD
The United Nations climate negotiations are focusing unprecedented attention on tropical forests and the urgent need to reduce sharply rates of deforestation and degradation to... -
REDD-Plus and Biodiversity: Opportunities and Challenges
Any new global agreement on climate change mitigation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will include the action of reducing emissions from... -
Carbon, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-Benefits Tanzania
Co-benefits, often called multiple benefits, are the positive impacts of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) that are additional to emissions... -
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation:...
Recent climate talks in Bali have made progress toward action on deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, within the anticipated post-Kyoto emissions... -
Protected Areas Systems Review of the Indo-Malayan Realm
The 1986 - 1996 period was a time of uneven change in the level of public awareness and political commitment to biodiversity conservation throughout the countries of the Indo-... -
Framing the flow: Innovative approaches to understand, protect and value...
This report provides a synthesis of the current state of knowledge regarding the natural capital of water related ecosystems and habitats, and offers an overview of the... -
Global biodiversity agenda: Natural capital
This webinar provides an introduction to the concept of natural capital, including associated assets and their roles in providing natural resource inputs and environmental... -
Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity
While developed countries control most of the world's financial resources, it is the developing world that is home to most of its biological resources. This study provides an... -
The impacts of biofuel production on biodiversity: A review of the current literature
This report reviews the current (as of 2009) state of knowledge on the biodiversity impacts (both positive and negative) of biofuel production, with an emphasis on the potential... -
Carbon Emissions from Forest Loss in Protected Areas
This study uses an analysis of new data on deforestation in the humid tropics to estimate deforestation within protected areas between 2000 and 2005. These estimates are used in... -
Addressing climate change: Why biodiversity matters
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the greatest global threats to human well-being. An urgent and coordinated response is needed to avoid catastrophic impacts on... -
The climate relevance of ecosystems beyond forests and peatlands – A review...
The present report aims to give an overview on the state of knowledge and relevant research initiatives concerning the status and trends of major ecosystem types with regard to... -
Does EbA Work? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA) integrate the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy for helping people adapt to climate change. To...