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

Facing our global environmental challenges requires efficient international cooperation

Alexa Froger updated the Idea | 5 July 2019

The following article is an extract from an opinion article by Erik Lundberg published on 4 July 2019 on UN Environment website The changes we need are huge—time is short By Erik Lundberg, Finland's Ambassador to Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Seychelles and Permanent Representative to the UN Environment...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
ECO-DRR: Ending the Vulnerability of the Poor to Natural Disasters

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 27 June 2019

Photo: Video screenshot of the EU-financed, UNEP-led, ECO-DRR demonstration project in Afghanistan The poorest people in the poorest countries are the most vulnerable to disasters. This is because they lack the capacity for prevention and resources for resiliency. This is true for sudden natural...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
European Development Days 2019 - lab debate on oceans

Alexa Froger updated the event | 17 June 2019

18 Jun

From 18 June 2019
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Investment Bank; Agence Francaise de Developpement; KfW; UN Environment; UNOPS

UN Environment is pleased to to invite you to following lab debate at the European Development Days 2019 in Brussels. You will also find UN Environment staff in the UN Stand in the Village on 18 and 19 June. Let oceans breathe and people live a better life The nexus between cleaning up the oceans...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
European Development Days 2019 - lab debate on oceans

Alexa Froger updated the event | 17 June 2019

18 Jun

From 18 June 2019
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Investment Bank; Agence Francaise de Developpement; KfW; UN Environment; UNOPS

UN Environment is pleased to to invite you to following lab debate at the European Development Days 2019 in Brussels. You will also find UN Environment staff in the UN Stand in the Village on 18 and 19 June. Let oceans breathe and people live a better life The nexus between cleaning up the oceans...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Global Resources Outlook - 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 13 June 2019

gro-layout-final-cn_web.pdf 4.71 MB

Much is at stake as global society approaches the final decade before the Sustainable Development Goals are fixed to be realized in 2030. The international community has set high ambitions for global prosperity, the protection of our biological diversity and land resources, and limiting global...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
European Development Days 2019 - lab debate on oceans

Alexa Froger updated the event | 13 June 2019

18 Jun

From 18 June 2019
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Investment Bank; Agence Francaise de Developpement; KfW; UN Environment; UNOPS

UN Environment is pleased to to invite you to following lab debate at the European Development Days 2019 in Brussels. You will also find UN Environment staff in the UN Stand in the Village on 18 and 19 June. Let oceans breathe and people live a better life The nexus between cleaning up the oceans...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Global Environment Outlook 6 and GEO6 Summary for Policymakers

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 13 June 2019

geo6spm_en.pdf 32.13 MB

Published in time for the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Air pollution is responsible for up to one in five premature deaths in 19 Western Balkan cities

Alexa Froger posted Information | 5 June 2019

Air pollution causes nearly 5,000 premature deaths in group of cities. On average, people living in the Western Balkan cities studied lose up to 1.3 years of life to air pollution. The main sources of particulate matter emissions are thermal power plants that use lignite coal and household heating...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Newsletter

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the WIKI page | 17 May 2019

The Green Development News is a quarterly publication produced and promoted by members of our capacity4dev group with the aim to raise awareness and enhance cooperation on environmental themes (environmental mainstreaming, biodiversity, green economy, forestry, climate change). If you are...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Green Development News #11

Katharine Mill updated the Information | 16 May 2019

The new edition of our quarterly newsletter is now out, in English and French, and with a focus in this edition on climate change and sustainable energy policy and programmes. The newsletter is produced by DG International Cooperation and Development's units for Sustainable Energy & Climate...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life

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