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

Worldwide Event of World Soil Day Conference: "Arable Land Protection Mechanism and Innovative Approaches in the Framework of Eco Civilization" 世界土壤日全球活动研讨会：“生态文明背景下的耕地保护战略与路径创新”

Xiaoying LIU created a new event | 30 November 2019

30 Nov

From 30 November 2019
in Beijing 北京 (China)

Organised by China Agricultural University, Editorial Department of China Land Science | 中国农业大学，《中国土地科学》编辑部

Arable land protection affects global and regional policies, including food security, climate change, social-economic livability and poverty problems. Under current circumstances of global and regional sustainable governance, climate environmental crisis and Eco Civilization systems, China's Prime...

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Group: Knowledge@Terra Classrooms
'Embrace positive change for the environment and avoid polarization around the need for action’ UNEP official at Friends of Europe Energy Summit 2019

Alexa Froger posted Information | 28 November 2019

“We should be careful about unnecessarily demonizing opponents of climate change actions and avoid placing an undue burden on the people and the sectors that have played a huge part in our economic and social development as we undergo the necessary energy transition,” Mark Radka , Chief of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2019 progress report

Alexa Froger uploaded a new Document | 31 October 2019

global-commitment-2019-progress-report.pdf 10.69 MB

Launched in October 2018 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme, the Global Commitment unites businesses, governments, and other organizations from around the world behind a common vision of a circular economy for plastics, in which plastics never...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Transboundary conservation in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia: the Pilcomayo River

Katharine Mill posted Information | 28 October 2019

EuropeAid vloggers Nelly and Muriel recently visited one of the projects supported through the B4Life ZICOSUR programme .

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Transboundary conservation in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia: the Pilcomayo River

Katharine Mill posted Information | 28 October 2019

EuropeAid vloggers Nelly and Muriel recently visited one of the projects supported through the B4Life ZICOSUR programm e.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Knowledge@Terra Classrooms -- Testing on Climate, Land, Soil and Water 测试关于气候、土地、土壤和水的地域知识环境课堂

Xiaoying LIU updated the Information | 25 October 2019

As a Worldwide Event of World Soil Day 2018, Testing of Knowledge@Terra Classrooms inaugurated in Shanghai, China in subsequent months (04.12.2018 - 30.09.2019), in order to understand and disseminate integrated policy-practice and territorial solutions over land, soil water and climate aspects...

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Finding solutions to soil related problems using an interregional approach- Knowledge@Terra

Lakshmi G updated the Information | 24 October 2019

[Case Study Collection: Sustainable Land-Soil Management, Eco Farming and Food Security] 【研究案例集：可持续土地土壤管理、生态农业和粮食安全】 Paddy fields with palm trees in Kerala. Wikipedia Creative Commons, by McKay Savage from London, UK The old Ernakulam Market for vegetables and fruits in Kochi City, Kerala, India...

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Group: Knowledge@Terra Classrooms
Finding solutions to soil related problems using an interregional approach- Knowledge@Terra

Lakshmi G updated the Information | 24 October 2019

[Case Study Collection: Sustainable Land-Soil Management, Eco Farming and Food Security] 【研究案例集：可持续土地土壤管理、生态农业和粮食安全】 Paddy fields with palm trees in Kerala. Wikipedia Creative Commons, by McKay Savage from London, UK The old Ernakulam Market for vegetables and fruits in Kochi City, Kerala, India...

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Group: Knowledge@Terra Classrooms
amelia brown commented on information | 24 October 2019

Young environmental prize winner for Europe makes virtual forest restoration in Russia a reality

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
amelia brown commented on information | 24 October 2019

Young environmental prize winner for Europe makes virtual forest restoration in Russia a reality

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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