65 datasets found

'Biological diversity' refers to the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the...

Overreliance on investment in the so-called ‘brown economy’ between the late 20th and early 21st centuries led to a state of financial imbalance and was a contributing factor in...

Governments will soon agree a new global biodiversity framework that will replace the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. This will be...

The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations Collaborative Initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. The...

The strategy we present here is our response to this crisis as we work towards a positive vision of a world living in harmony with nature. It will be used to provide direction...

This Manual is designed to help policy makers and practitioners - in the developed world and in developing countries - to conduct integrated assessments of the economic,...

This training Resources Manual provides step-by-step guidance to assist instructors in training policymakers and practitioners in the use of economic instruments for...

This project addresses one of the eligible activities within the GEF Operation Programme on the dryland livestock wildlife environment Interface Project.

This synthesis examines the critical role of forests in a green economy, and provides policy recommendations to radically transform the forest sector such that it can lead to...

This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and...

Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities...

With global action and positive momentum towards improving access to safe water and sanitation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Human Settlements...

This report explores the potential for mitigating the impacts of climate change by improved management and protection of marine ecosystems and especially the vegetated coastal...

This report is about the role and impact of environmental factors in securing human safety and sustained development of the eastern Caspian Sea region, including the parts of...

Summary for policy makers to Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer.

This report presents facts on the state of the environment, specific findings concerning the urban environment and the natural resources if Afghanistan and recommendations on...

Land-based sources and activities affecting the quality and uses of the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment.

This Discussion Paper on Industry Sector Approaches to Climate Change is intended to assist negotiators, policymakers and other interested parties in the definition, development...

This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Pacific Islands region, which comprises more than 20 Island nations or territories that exhibit enormous geomorphological,...

This report presents the results of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) of the transboundary waters of the Lake Chad Basin. This and the subsequent chapter offer a...