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Biodiversity and ecosystem services in performance standards for business
This article discusses UNEP-WCMC's work with the CBD Secretariat and other partners to examine and compare the various standards for commonalities and gaps. The gaps and... -
The State of Biodiversity in Africa
Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the... -
The State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the... -
The State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific
Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the... -
Use of biodiversity scenarios at local, national and regional scales
The fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2020 is expected to adopt a post 2020 global biodiversity... -
Resourcing the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: A first assessment of the...
This report has been prepared by the High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in order to inform... -
Mapping our conservation future
In order to further scope out ideas and advance on the scientific underpinning for scaling up area-based conservation, UNEP-WCMC, working with the Luc Hoffmann Institute, and... -
The State of Biodiversity in West Asia
Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the... -
UNEP-WCMC Rio+20 Briefing Notes
UNEP-WCMC wrote several briefing notes for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, covering different topics: Synergies among multilateral... -
Global Biodiversity Outlook 4
Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status... -
A spatial analysis approach to the global delineation of dryland areas of...
This study uses a GIS spatial analysis at a global scale to provisionally delineate the areas that the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme of Work on Dry and Subhumid... -
Wild Bird Index: Guidance for national and regional use
This guidance document is one of a series produced with the support of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership to assist Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity... -
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Tips and tasks from African experience
Do you want to mainstream biodiversity concerns into development policy and planning? Are you involved in national or sectoral development planning and want to highlight how... -
Incorporating indicators into NBSAPs – Guidance for practitioners
This best practice document provides a summary of the above guidance “Incorporating indicators into NBSAPs – Guidance for practitioners” produced by the UNEP World Conservation... -
Designing a platform for area-based conservation: A contribution to the...
At the margins of the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference, the governments of Egypt and China and the CBD Secretariat launched the Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for... -
REDD+ Policy Assessment Center (REDD-PAC)
The REDD-PAC project, a collaboration between the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the... -
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
The third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) summarizes the latest data on status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions for the future strategy of the... -
Supporting National Biodiversity Planning
Working with our project partners, UNEP-WCMC have developed a comprehensive, coordinated approach to supporting countries with their revision and implementation of NBSAPs as... -
Incorporating and utilising spatial data and mapping in NBSAPs
This guidance document has been prepared to support National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP) practitioners in producing updated NBSAPs that incorporate spatial... -
Review of future projections of biodiversity and ecosystem services
The purpose of this document is to review recent information from the scientific literature on the status, trends, and projections of global biodiversity and ecosystem services,...