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This document sets out a practical, science-based approach to spatial biodiversity assessment and prioritisation, which can be applied at the national level in any country. It...

​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 Capacity Development Assessment Tool's (CDAT's) purpose is to support the design and evaluation of capacity development activities in the field of biodiversity-related...

Spanning more than a decade, a series of papers has been written and a number of workshops conducted exploring options for harmonizing and streamlining approaches to reporting...

This geoportal has been specifically designed to allow users to explore and provide feedback on a set of initial global maps produced by the Nature Map Initiative. The Nature...

To track changes in biodiversity and progress towards environmental and sustainable development targets requires biodiversity indicators and databases. Often though, such...

This paper observes the following three challenge to biodiversity monitoring for REDD: choosing which aspects of biodiversity to monitor, the difficulty of attributing...

Strengthening governance of the oil sector with respect to biodiversity will help this industry contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals but requires...

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...

This document aims to provide an overview of the current state of land-use modelling as well as the usability, applicability and availability of modelling tools, particularly in...

This report summarises the results of the Commodities and Biodiversity project, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The project aimed to develop...

The Greater Mekong and its headwaters is a region of high biodiversity, high carbon-storage value and, crucially, immensely important freshwater services for millions of people....

The Great Lakes Region of East and Central Africa (GLR) supports extraordinary biodiversity and provides ecosystem services supporting the livelihoods of millions of people...

Covering over 200 million hectares along the Northern and Central Andes mountain ranges and spanning six countries, the Watersheds of the Andes (WA) Region is one of exceptional...

The Watershed Exploration Tool allows watersheds to be compared for their biodiversity and ecosystem function importance, for current (2005) and future (2050) scenarios in three...

Over the coming decades, society will have to balance competing needs for land to feed the growing human population, to provide resources and energy to satisfy the ever-...

Developed in partnership with UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, this publication provides an overview of the impacts and dependencies that business has on...

Do you want to mainstream biodiversity concerns into development policy and planning? Are you involved in national or sectoral development planning and looking to highlight how...

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...