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The Living Planet Index was developed to measure the changing state of the world's biodiversity over time. It uses time-series data to calculate average rates of change in a...

This guidance takes the reader through steps that will support the integration of ecosystem considerations into holistic VIAs, describing key questions to be answered, outlining...

Biodiversity is an essential part of Uganda’s ‘natural capital stock’, underpinning the delivery of the ecosystem services that support economic activity and the wellbeing of...

Natural capital is a way of thinking about nature as a stock that provides a flow of benefits to people and the economy. It consists of natural capital assets such as water,...

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...

This analysis was conducted by UN Environment, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, in response to United...

Between 2010 and 2016, more than USD 1.9 billion was committed to implement, monitor and enforce the conservation and sustainable management of tropical coral reefs and...

Human activity and technological advances, including offshore oil and gas mining and fishing, are increasingly affecting the ocean. 43% of the planet’s surface is ocean not...

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...

The five biodiversity-related treaty secretariats and UNEP commissioned WCMC to undertake a Feasibility Study to identify opportunities for harmonising information management....

​The RESTORE+ project is a five-year partnership that aims at addressing Food-Land-Energy nexus related to restoration or utilization of degraded/marginal land in Indonesia and...

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...

This e-learning course was produced under the Darwin Initiative-funded project ‘Integrating Natural Capital Accounting into Sustainable Development Decision Making in Uganda’,...

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...

National reporting is a core requirement for Parties to most, if not all, Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), providing an essential source of information for the...

The Convention on Biological Diversity aims to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity and share the benefits of genetic resources equitably. The 193 countries party...

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

This guidance document, roadmap and accompanying annex have been produced as an output of a joint UNEP-WCMC and IEEP project, funded by Defra, and in collaboration with the CBD...

This best practice document provides a summary of the above guidance “Incorporating indicators into NBSAPs – Guidance for practitioners” produced by the UNEP World Conservation...