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These case studies provide concrete evidence of how communities are affected by marine litter, and presents an opportunity for us to contemplate measures that can be taken to...

This report pursues the following main objectives: (i) To provide an up-to-date overview of selected national, and as appropriate regional, policy and legal frameworks on access...

The following text expands on the options for action set out in the body of the report (from page 39), using the same numbering. First the summary from the text is repeated and...

This volume is the twenty-sixth issue of the Mediterranean Action Plan Technical Reports Series. This series contains selected reports resulting from the various activities...

This publication highlights the concept and selected market segments relating to payments for ecosystem services. It emphasises the role natural capital can play in both...

In the past, the notion of security was pri- marily conceived in terms of neutralizing military threats to the territorial integrity and political independence of a state....

Este e-book mostra que as florestas urbanas e periurbanas podem ser fortes aliadas no enfrentamento à crise climática e de restauração dos ecossistemas. Quando bem geridas, as...

UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable...

This document provides an overview of Ecological Quality Objectives (EcoQOs) in the NOWPAP region, beginning with a history of NOWPAPs approach to EcoQOs and their relevance to...

Given the significant increase in the number of multilateral environmental agreements, their ratification and implementation through domestic legislation has now become a top...

This two-part volume is the joint work of an international team of experts and contains essays on triangular cooperation.

In the spirit of the UN Framework for the Immediate Socio-economic Response to COVID-19, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has teamed up with the renowned...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is a passionate advocate for planetary and human health. For almost 50 years, UNEP has delivered science to help the world...

This book shows how and why existing prices, markets and policies fail to reflect the true value of ecosystem services and biodiversity, and the true cost of ongoing damage. It...

This report provides readers with an overview of the key environmental issues, factors and drivers of environmental change in Afghanistan, and highlights the latest achievements...

This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for...

The Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLME) Project and the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP) are part of a multi-project and multi-agency...

This report assesses environmental conditions in Indonesia’s Nanggröe Aceh Darussalam province (Aceh) and Nias, in the province of North Sumatra, two years after the tsunami...

Because of the nature of the changes affecting the world's protected areas it is essential that we periodically make the effort to review their status and to understand the...

Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss...