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 #ForNature

Alexa Froger updated the event | 4 May 2020

05 Jun

From 5 June 2020
Organised by UNEP

This World Environment Day, learn how all living things on Earth are connected in the web of life and how we can act #ForNature World Environment Day , celebrated on 5 June , is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Since it began in 1974...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
FINAL REPORT - DEVCO Environment and Climate Week

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2020

20200401_devco_env_week_final_report.pdf 1.47 MB

DEVCO Environment and Climate Week 2020, took place in Brussels from 17–21 February 2020, bringing together colleagues from European Union delegations and headquarters to exchange views on the policy priorities of the new Commission — in particular, the latest environmental and climate policy...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
UNEP, the Ocean Agency and Adobe launch the Save the Oceans Creative Challenge

Alexa Froger updated the Idea | 29 April 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , many across the world are figuring out how to move forward with day-to-day activities. But nature, now more than ever, needs us to pay attention to its warning signals and to take care of it so it can take care of us. With this in mind, creative minds at home—teachers...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
“Earth School” launches to keep students connected to nature in the time of COVID-19

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 22 April 2020

TED-Ed, UNEP, and 30 other collaborators launch a free educational platform for environmental adventures available to teachers, parents, students, and curious global citizens (22 April - 5 June 2020) In response to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented coalition has come together to launch “ Earth...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Cities4Forest launches photo #ForestChallenge - an invitation to reconnect with nature #ForNature

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 22 April 2020

Reconnect with nature and post images with friends, family and colleagues around trees and forests. Cities4Forests commits to planting 1 tree for each of the first 2,000 images posted on Facebook and Instagram: use the hashtag #ForestChallenge and tag @Cities4Forests . Together with Reforest’Action...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
International Mother Earth Day 2020

Justine Marchal updated the Photo album | 21 April 2020

International Mother Earth Day 2020

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Group: GCCA+ Community
A New Global Campaign that Addresses the Source: Exploitation of the Wild

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 21 April 2020

When so many around the world are looking at responding to the pandemic, few actually look at preventive measures. To gain a better understanding of the root causes behind the current situation, it is essential to consider how the world handles biodiversity and wildlife crime. The END PANDEMICS...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Emerging zoonotic diseases and links to ecosystem health – UNEP Frontiers 2016 chapter

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 14 April 2020

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In 2016 the UN Environment Programme identified the issue of zoonotic diseases as a key emerging issue of global concern in its Frontiers publication series . The chapter on zoonoses – diseases that can be passed on from animals to humans – illustrates how the emergence and re-emergence of zoonotic...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Angola 2016-2020

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 14 April 2020

angolaeba.pdf 3.61 MB

A GEF-funded project in Angola is seeking to help climate-vulnerable coastal communities by using ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) – a type of ‘ nature-based solution ’ that uses ecosystem services to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The main approaches of the project are:...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Open Consultation for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030

Alexa Froger updated the event | 2 April 2020

02 Apr

From 2 April 2020 to 30 April 2020
Organised by United Nations

On March 1, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly, through it Resolution A/RES/73/284 , proclaimed 2021 – 2030 the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration . The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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