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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...

Co-benefits, often called multiple benefits, are the positive impacts of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) that are additional to emissions...

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-...

This webinar provides an introduction to the concept of natural capital, including associated assets and their roles in providing natural resource inputs and environmental...

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...

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...

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...

This summary report aims to provide the European Commission with an overview of the likely impact of climate change on biodiversity in the European Union and indications as to...

This publication brings together eight original articles by experts to tackle head on some of the most difficult questions facing us all: How can a stable climate and a...

There are significant knowledge gaps concerning current and potential future impacts of climate change on European island biodiversity. However, there is enough evidence to...

This report illustrates several of the cumulative environmental impacts of piecemeal infrastructure development, population growth, water shortage and climate change in the...

This paper modelled the long-term trends in plant species distributions in response to predicted changes in global climate. The authors concluded that to maintain the greatest...

This publication has been compiled by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEPl World Conservation Monitoring...

The report highlights achievements made in protected areas around the world during 2007. Through this publication, UNEP-WCMC provides an assessment of progress made towards...

This working paper provides a global overview of the current coverage of existing World Heritage Sites of particular importance for the conservation of biodiversity, and...

The IUCN Summit on Protected Area Management Categories was held in Almeria, Spain in May 2007. It aimed to test the opinions of key thinkers and policy makers regarding the...

The aim of the World Heritage Convention is to ensure the protection for all time of the world's natural and cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value. In 1994, to assist...

Covering 13.2 million square kilometres, or more than 8.8% of the earth's land area, protected areas are at the core of global efforts to conserve biological diversity (Green...

The Convention on Biological Diversity Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 was adopted at the 10th Conference of the Parties in Nagoya, Japan. The plan outlines 20 Aichi...

The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is a tool for assessing biodiversity risk, combining three global biodiversity datasets – the World Database on Protected...