Biodiversity & Ecosystem services

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Air pollution and preservation - Bio trade - Bio-diversity monitoring - Bio-diversity policies - Biodiversity conservation accompanying measures - Conservation - Ecosystem services - Ecotourism - Hunting and poaching - Marine pollution control - Natural resource management - Sustainable Land management - Water resources conservation - Wildlife crisis - Wildlife trade & trafficking

Short guide to the use of Rio markers

Hanna Petri posted Information | 27 July 2016

During the 1992 Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit, three legally binding agreements ('Rio Conventions') were signed by developed and developing countries: (1) Convention on Biological Diversity; (2) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and (3)...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Managing marine protected areas: improving decisions through research

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude created a new event | 26 July 2016

26 Jul

From 26 July 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Commission DG-DEVCO and DG-JRC

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
invitation lunchtime conference 26 07 2016

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 26 July 2016

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 8 July 2016

Marisol Estrella, Programme Coordinator for UNEP’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, participated in a session at the European Development Days on 15 June 2016, entitled “Ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation”. The other high-level panellists were...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Marine Litter - Vital Graphics

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 8 July 2016

marinelitter.pdf 16.12 MB

Every year, the sum of humanity’s knowledge increases exponentially. And as we learn more, we also learn there is much we still don’t know. Plastic litter in our oceans is one area where we need to learn more, and we need to learn it quickly. That’s one of the main messages in Marine Litter Vital...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Report from FAO workshop on mainstreaming ecosystem services and biodiversity into NBSAPs - Nairobi, Kenya, 25-26 May 2016

Francesca Mancini uploaded a new Document | 7 July 2016

fao_esb_nairobi_meeting_may_2016.pdf 1.11 MB

The report describes the background, outcomes and findings of the two-day "Regional policy dialogue on ecosystem services from sustainable agriculture for biodiversity conservation" organized under project ACP/MEAs 2 and held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 25-26 May 2016. The event brought together 50...

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - Briefing note

Katharine Mill uploaded a new Document | 6 July 2016

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A short (5 page) Briefing Note explaining the TEEB initiative for the benefit of EU Delegations and other partners and stakeholders in EU development cooperation, prepared by the Biodiversity for Life Technical Assistance Facility.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - Synthesis note

Katharine Mill uploaded a new Document | 6 July 2016

teeb_synthesis_note_06-2016.pdf 1.03 MB

A document (37 pages) presenting the TEEB initiative for the benefit of EU Delegations and other partners and stakeholders in EU development cooperation, prepared by the Biodiversity for Life Technical Assistance Facility.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Go Circular – opinion piece by Karmenu Vella

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 4 July 2016

Karmena Vella, EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, was interviewed by UNEP for the May edition of the ‘Our Planet’ magazine. In his article, the Commissioner linked marine litter with the circular economy , stating that “at least one third of the world’s plastic waste...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on information | 22 June 2016

A batch of new projects approved by the Commission under the GPGC/Environment & Climate Change !

Out of the two calls for proposals that were launched near the end of 2015, 15 new projected have now recently started their operations. 4 small grants in the South-Atlantic Region: 3 small grants in the Indian Ocean region: 1 small grant in the Polar/Sub-Polar region: 4 medium grants in the...

Group: Biodiversity for Life

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