540 datasets found

The directory of Indicators of Positive Environmental & Social Impacts from Sustainable Land-use Financing is designed to help support decision-makers within financial...

The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) is a global initiative that has operated since 2007. Mandated by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it promotes and...

Protected Planet Reports are biennial landmark publications that assess the state of protected and conserved areas around the world. The 2020 edition provides the final report...

Proteus was initiated in 2003 as a unique collaboration to provide companies with the biodiversity information needed for better informed decisions, and to support the...

Since 2011, global marine biodiversity datasets hosted on the Ocean Data Viewer have been used by more than 3,200 organisations in 219 countries and territories across six...

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and UNEP-WCMC have been working together to strengthen the evidence base for underscoring...

To incorporate natural capital into national green growth planning, it is critical for decision-makers to have access to information that reflects the quality, quantity and...

The RESOLVE Ecoregions dataset, updated in 2017, offers a depiction of the 846 terrestrial ecoregions that represent our living planet. View the stylized map at...

2021, and the decade ahead, will be critical for tackling the global nature crisis and securing a better, healthier and more resilient future for people and planet. Building...

As a society we are increasingly dependent on pollinators. The proportion of global agricultural production that depends on pollinators has increased fourfold since 1961. Much...

The 2014 United Nations List of Protected Areas is a compilation of all designated protected areas in the world. This is the fourteenth edition since the publication of the...

This assessment, based on a series of independent studies, shows that the disastrous situation in Indonesia’s forests is driven mainly by international markets and well-...

​UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre has launched an initial step-by-step approach to enable specialist agencies, research institutes and other organizations to...

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...

In many developing countries, the oil & gas sector plays an important role and has the potential to generate significant economic and social development opportunities....

Biodiversity underpins all economic activities through the provision of a range of ecosystem services, and it is experiencing dangerous and unprecedented declines due to the...

The Development Corridors Partnership uses a capacity-building approach to analyse proposed development corridors in Kenya and Tanzania and consider how they can be designed to...

Over the coming decades, society will have to balance competing needs for land to feed a growing population, to provide resources and energy to satisfy the changing patterns of...

Environmental sensitivity atlases are tools that display relative sensitivity of areas to any given pressure. There have been a range of approaches developed for different...

There is a great urgency to address biodiversity loss and chemicals and waste pollution. These global challenges are intertwined in many ways. Pollution is identified as one of...