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Oil for Development: Strengthening Data and Capacity for Environmental...
In many developing countries, the oil & gas sector plays an important role and has the potential to generate significant economic and social development opportunities.... -
Beyond "Business as Usual": Biodiversity Targets and Finance
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
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... -
Mapping Agricultural Suitability
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... -
MESA: Mapping Environmentally Sensitive Assets
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... -
Strengthening collaboration and coordination between biodiversity and...
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... -
Supporting the EU to Address Illegal Timber Trade
Illegal logging and associated trade is a global issue of major concern. It threatens forests and biodiversity, and undermines sustainable forest management and development. The... -
Building Capacity for National Ecosystem Assessment
At its third session, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Plenary adopted a number of capacity-building priorities, and... -
Elaboration of options for enhancing synergies among biodiversity-related conventions
Over the past decades, countries have negotiated and agreed to be bound by a number of biodiversity-related conventions and other multilateral environmental agreements. These... -
Supporting National Biodiversity Planning
Working with our project partners, UNEP-WCMC have developed a comprehensive, coordinated approach to supporting countries with their revision and implementation of NBSAPs as... -
NBSAP Forum
The NBSAP Forum is a global partnership aiming to support the revision and implementation of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs). The Secretariat of... -
Incorporating and utilising spatial data and mapping in NBSAPs
This guidance document has been prepared to support National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP) practitioners in producing updated NBSAPs that incorporate spatial... -
Effective use of knowledge in developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
An expert meeting was convened from 10-12 April 2018 in Cambridge, United Kingdom with the aim of supporting preparations for developing a post-2020 global biodiversity... -
Summary of the shared socio-economic pathways
The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) describe plausible futures for the society and economy of the world, using a combination of storylines and quantified elements (Riahi et... -
Review of future projections of biodiversity and ecosystem services
The purpose of this document is to review recent information from the scientific literature on the status, trends, and projections of global biodiversity and ecosystem services,... -
Safeguarding space for nature and securing our future: developing a...
Over the next two years, governments will be reviewing implementation of the current Strategic Plan and considering the elements of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework to... -
Space for Nature Symposium
As part of the process to develop a post-2020 strategy, this symposium brought together international scientists, conservation practitioners, policy-makers, business leaders,... -
UN-REDD Programme Country Resources Hub
UNEP-WCMC has worked with national and international partners, through the UN-REDD Programme and the REDD-PAC project, to support a range of countries in their REDD+ planning... -
Mapping to support REDD+ planning and secure multiple benefits: Toolbox and...
GIS training materials and tools have been developed for use in planning REDD+ activities that deliver multiple benefits. These resources are designed to assist technical staff... -
Approaches to mapping ecosystem services
This report provides an overview of the state-of-the art in mapping ecosystem services (hereafter referred to as ES), with the intention of building the understanding and...