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

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 27 February 2016

Wildlife crisis

Voilà ! Commission launches Action Plan to crack down on wildlife trafficking everything to be found here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-387_en.htm Allez... à l'action maintenant !

Group: Biodiversity for Life
UN World Wildlife Day 2016

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

The UN World Wildlife Day (WWD) celebrated every year on 3 March, is the international celebration of the many beautiful and varied forms of this planet’s wild fauna and flora, as well as an occasion to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people. The theme of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Strengthened Integration Needed for Effective Action on Air Pollution, Sustainable Consumption, Green Economy

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

Gearing up for the 2nd UN Environment Assembly, countries define an integrated approach to implementing environmental dimension of Sustainable Development Goals. Nairobi, 24 February 2016 - Governments and regional organizations met at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UNEP leads first ever nationwide diagnosis of contaminated soil in Republic of Serbia

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 25 February 2016

Belgrade, Republic of Serbia – 25 February 2016: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched the first ever nationwide efforts to identify and map contaminated soil sites for remediation in the Republic of Serbia. The project takes place thanks to the support of the Italian...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
An Integrated Environmental Approach to the SDGs

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 25 February 2016

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted unanimously by UN member states in September 2015, have given the international community and national governments a number of targets and principles – chief among them, to advance an “integrated approach”. But what does this mean in terms of projects,...

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Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 24 February 2016

Wildlife crisis

D-2 for the release of the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking ! The EU is a big market for legal and illegal wildlife products: our airports are used as transit points for ivory and rhino horns going from Africa to Asia; endangered eels are smuggled at huge prices from Europe to Asia; and...

Group: Biodiversity for Life
An Unavoidable Crossroads - Opening Remarks by UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw at the 4th Plenary Session of the IPBES

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 23 February 2016

UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw made the opening remarks at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The full speech : "Prime Minister, Professor Zakri, Braulio Dias, ladies and gentlemen, dear IPBES...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Countries Agree on Actions to Protect Sharks

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 22 February 2016

San José, Costa Rica, 19 February 2016 - Close to 40 governments agreed this week to enhance protection for additional migratory shark and ray species and to a set of new conservation priorities. At the Second Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Governments Set Stage for Action on Environmental Aspects of Humanitarian Crises and Risks to Human Health

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 19 February 2016

Nairobi, 19 February 2016 - Governments and other key actors today set the stage for key decisions on the implementation of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including addressing the environmental aspects of global humanitarian crises and human health risks...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Plastic-Busters: working towards a Mediterranean free of litter

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 19 February 2016

Plastic-Busters, a project of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), aims to effectively tackle the issue of marine litter in the Mediterranean. With a total budget of 8,810 M Euros over a 4-year period (from 2016 – 2020), the project will assess the amount, sources, pathways, distribution...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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