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

Transboundary Waters Assessment Vol 2 - Transboundary Lakes and Reservoirs

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 31 August 2017

twap_vol_2_-_transboundary_lakes_and_reservoirs.pdf 9.16 MB

The lakes component of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Program (TWAP) was undertaken to compare the relative threats to transboundary lakes (and implicitly all “lentic waters”). Because of the greater complexity characterizing transboundary lake basins and their ecosystem services, compared to...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Transboundary Waters Assessment Vol 4 - Large Marine Ecosystems

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 31 August 2017

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TWAP Volume 4 presents the results of the first global indicator-based, comparative assessment of large marine ecosystems.The five water-category specific assessments cover 199 transboundary aquifers and groundwater systems in 43 small-island developing states, 206 transboundary lakes and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Transboundary Waters Assessment Vol 1 - Transboundary Aquifers and Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 31 August 2017

twap_vol_1_-_groundwater.pdf 15.54 MB

The Groundwater Component of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) deals with Transboundary Aquifers (TBAs) and with Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It was executed by the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and represents the first...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UN Environment Assembly

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the event | 31 August 2017

04 Dec

From 4 December 2017 to 6 December 2017
in Nairobi (Kenya)

Organised by UN Environment

Third session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) under the overarching theme pollution. Link to the website here . Link to the Background Information Sheet here . About UNEA III The Environment Assembly aims to deliver a number tangible commitments to end the pollution of our air, land,...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UN Environment Assembly 2017: Towards a Pollution-Free Planet

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 31 August 2017

On 4-6 Dece mber 2017 , the third UN Environment Assembly will take place in Nairobi, under the overarching theme " Towards a Pollution-Free Planet ". The Assembly provides a groundbreaking platform for leadership on global environmental policy to drive transformative action for curbing pollution...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
A Landscape Approach for DRR in 7 steps

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 10 August 2017

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Registration is now open for the conference Upscaling ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (eco-DRR) investments to reduce disaster risks

Lea Appulo updated the event | 8 August 2017

13 Oct

From 13 October 2017
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by Wetlands International, UNISDR, DG DEVCO, DG ECHO, DG ENVI, DG CLIMATE ACTION, UNESCO

On the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, UNISDR, European Commission, UNESCO and Wetlands International will join the International campaign “Home Safe Home” – Reducing exposure, reducing displacement” by holding an event to show evidence on the efficacy and cost-...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Changes needed to Liberia’s legal framework governing community forestry

David Young uploaded a new Document | 8 August 2017

gw2017_changesneededliberiacommunityforestrylaws.pdf 310.2 KB

It is too easy for community forests to be co-opted by logging companies and local elites for narrowly commercial and unsustainable ends. After decades of industrial logging and forest mismanagement, the Liberian government has pledged that it will now only issue forest licenses to the communities...

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Group: Sustainable Forests for the Future
THE EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN «WORLD AQUARIUMS AGAINST MARINE LITTER» WAS LAUNCHED AT THE MONACO OCEANOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 31 July 2017

One of the first aquariums to join the movement, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and its Director, Robert Calcagno, welcomed this Thursday 27 July HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs And Fisheries, Erik Solheim, Head of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Join the GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE!!!

Lea Appulo posted Information | 31 July 2017

The GLOBAL MANGROVE ALLIANCE was launched on 26 July, International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. The Mangrove Alliance brings together Conservation International, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, WWF and Wetlands International. Our aim: to expand the global extent of mangroves...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA

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