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

World Environment Day 2020 - Interview with FAO and UNEP Directors in Brussels

Alexa Froger posted Information | 5 June 2020

1. On June 5, we celebrate World Environment Day, while the world is going through an unprecedented crisis. Biodiversity and the environment are threatened. Could you give us in two sentences what your respective organizations are doing about it? Rodrigo de Lapuerta , Director of the Food and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
“It’s Time for Nature” - GENeva World Environment Day Online Roundtable

Alexa Froger updated the event | 4 June 2020

05 Jun

From 5 June 2020
Organised by Geneva Environment Network

To celebrate World Environment Day and as part of the Geneva Environment Network’s online sessions called GENeva Environment Dialogue, a roundtable with the theme “ It’s Time for Nature ” will be take place on 5 June 2020 . The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is “Biodiversity” with the slogan...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Time for nature as World Environment Day puts biodiversity in focus

Alexa Froger posted Information | 3 June 2020

Media advisory Time for nature as World Environment Day puts biodiversity in focus 5 June 2020 Where: Global Date: 5 June 2020 More information: https://www.worldenvironmentday.global What: Celebrated every year on June 5, World Environment Day is the United Nations’ biggest annual event advocating...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Act #ForNature Virtual Preparatory Forum for UNEA-5

Alexa Froger updated the event | 1 June 2020

07 Jun

From 7 June 2020 to 10 June 2020
Organised by UNEP

From 7-10 June, 2020 , the Act #ForNature Global Online Forum will bring together citizens, government and non-governmental organizations, businesses and scientific institutions from around the globe to engage in a series of open and inclusive discussions across a diverse range of topics from...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
World Environment Day: online screening of 'Sharkwater Extinction' followed by panel discussion

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 29 May 2020

To mark World Environment Day, Ciné-ONU Brussels, Vienna and Geneva invite you to a screening of Rob Stewart's award-winning film, Sharkwater Extinction, followed by a timely panel discussion. Sharkwater Extinction - winner of over 50 international awards You can participate in the event in two...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The State of the World’s Forests: Forests, Biodiversity and People

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 29 May 2020

fao_unep_forests.pdf 14.6 MB

The State of the World’s Forests 2020: Forests, Biodiversity and People (SOFO 2020), jointly prepared by FAO and UNEP. As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Working With the Environment to Protect People: UNEP’s COVID-19 Response

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 12 May 2020

unep_covid-19_response.pdf 4.06 MB

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with the billions of people suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate priority is to protect them. But UNEP also has a duty to help nations build back better after the pandemic to increase resilience to future crises. UNEP is stepping...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Diane KELECOM commented on an meeting | 8 May 2020

Pandemics and what we've learned so far from COVID-19

Register for the online debate today via https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__4GHvA9XTVuevuApzk8Agw

Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
World Environment Day 2020 Toolkit - A Practical Guide for participation in the run up to 5 June 2020

Alexa Froger updated the Idea | 6 May 2020

This World Environment Day, It’s Time #ForNature . The theme this World Environment Day, 5 June 2020 is biodiversity - a call to take action to combat the accelerating species loss and degradation of the natural world. “Biodiversity – the essential variety of life forms on Earth – continues to...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Pandemics and what we've learned so far from COVID-19

Diane KELECOM created a new meeting | 5 May 2020

05 May

From 5 May 2020 to 8 May 2020
Organised by Cine-ONU Geneva, Brussels and Vienna

Did you ever try to attend a Cine ONU but saw the e-mail too late to register? It often happens, as these events are always a great success! In this special edition, Cine ONU presents one of the most challenging issues - the 'unseen enemy' - from controlled outbreaks to worldwide pandemics. Unseen...

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Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response

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