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The Earth's climate is changing and the impacts are already being felt by biodiversity and wildlife habitats across the planet. This summary report from the international...

This technical briefing note provides an overview of species' responses to climate change that require consideration with respect to biodiversity management strategies, and...

Land-use change models can help in developing a holistic understanding of the range of potential impacts of different land-use related policy options, and so strengthen the...

A new UN-REDD Programme Info Brief examines “REDD+ and adaptation: Identifying complementary responses to climate change”. The brief highlights the complementarities and...

Putting REDD+ into practice can involve a broad range of actions that change the management of forest and other lands. Depending on what is done and how, these actions can have...

A new video has been launched highlighting lessons and experiences on Safeguards from Africa. The video provides key lessons learned and experiences from participating countries...

The Navigator was developed and is maintained as part of two International Climate Initiative (IKI) funded global projects (Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA):...

A new rapid response assessment report released by UNEP warns that up to 25% of the world's food production may become lost due to environmental breakdown by 2050 unless action...

Protected areas have long been recognized as a robust system for biodiversity conservation, but they are under heavy and increasing pressures from human activities, including...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios for emission reductions are clear. In order to keep temperature rise close to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C we...

Cote d’Ivoire is the world’s biggest cocoa producer. However, the expansion of cocoa farming – as well as crops such as rubber, coffee and palm oil – has been a driving force of...

Massive coral bleaching episodes have impacted the function of the reefs and increased rates of mortality. Coral reefs support over one million plant and animal species and...

​This briefing illustrates with maps the protection status, biodiversity value and potential pressures on the peat swamp forest of the Central Congo Basin Peatlands. CongoPeat...

​The 24 page demonstration atlas, launched at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, shows that areas high in both...

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...

While the main purpose of REDD+ is to contribute to global climate change mitigation, REDD+ also has the potential to deliver other benefits, both environmental and social, to...

REDD+ has the potential to deliver social and environmental benefits that go beyond the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, but which may also entail potential risks to...

This guide is about taking account of, and managing, ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change in coastal areas: coastal Ecosystem based Adaptation (EBA). Vital to human...

There are obvious interconnections between climate change and biodiversity. However, the possible mutual benefits between climate change mitigation and adaptation and...

The Madingley Model is the first ever attempt to model the biological and ecological interactions of the world’s ecosystems – both on land and in the ocean – for all organisms....