Environment & green economy

A healthy environment and equitable access to ecosystem goods and services are crucial for sustainable development, but they are increasingly threatened. To improve lives around the globe for the long term, we must change our relationship with the environment: growth and sustainability can go hand in hand if this imperative is met at all levels. An inclusive green economy offers a possible pathway.

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Decoupling 2: Technologies, Opportunities, and Policy Options

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 7 June 2014

irp_decoupling_2_report.pdf 8.12 MB

Publication Date: 2014 Rapidly rising prices—metal up by 176 per cent, rubber by 350 per cent, and energy by 260 per cent since 2000—signal a potentially crippling trend of increasing costs as current consumption patterns rapidly deplete the world’s non-renewable resources. Decoupling 2:...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Green Economy

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 6 June 2014

Biodiversity and ecosystem services are at the core of the transition towards a green economy. A green economy requires a sustainable management of ecosystems, providing a range of goods and services which are all contributing to human wellbeing and which are fundamental for economic activities and...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Biodiversity for Life (B4Life)

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 6 June 2014

The EU Biodiversity for Life (B4Life) flagship initiative was launched in 2015 to help the poorest countries protect ecosystems, combat wildlife crime and develop green economies. It takes the approach of emphasising the economic benefits of protecting biodiversity and ecosystems in the interest of...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Green Economy

Susanna von Sydow created a new WIKI page | 5 June 2014

Biodiversity and ecosystem services are at the core of the transition towards a green economy. A green economy requires a sustainable management of ecosystems, providing a range of goods and services which are all contributing to human wellbeing and which are fundamental for economic activities and...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Beijing + 20 newsletter - Women and the environment

Laurence Gillois posted Information | 5 June 2014

Check out the Beijing + 20 newsletter , on women and the environment, released on the occasion of World Environment Day 2014. Each month, the newsletter focuses on one of the 12 critical areas of concern outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action ( subscribe ) and is part of UN Women's campaign...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Beijing + 20 - Newsletter - June 2014 - Women and the environment

Laurence Gillois posted Information | 5 June 2014

On 22 May 2014, UN Women launched a year-long Beijing+20 campaign Empowering Women - Empowering Humanity: picture it! On 5 June, World Environment day, check out the first edition of the monthly Beijing + 20 newsletter . Every month, the newsletter will focus on one of the 12 critical areas of...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Beijing + 20 - Newsletter - June 2014 - Women and the environment

Laurence Gillois posted Information | 5 June 2014

On 22 May 2014, UN Women launched a year-long Beijing+20 campaign Empowering Women - Empowering Humanity: picture it! On 5 June, World Environment day, check out the first edition of the monthly Beijing + 20 newsletter . Every month, the newsletter will focus on one of the 12 critical areas of...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Biodiversity for Life (B4Life)

Susanna von Sydow created a new WIKI page | 5 June 2014

The EU Biodiversity for Life (B4Life) flagship initiative was launched in 2015 to help the poorest countries protect ecosystems, combat wildlife crime and develop green economies. It takes the approach of emphasising the economic benefits of protecting biodiversity and ecosystems in the interest of...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Alternative indicators of well-being for Melanesia: changing the way progress is measured in the South Pacific

Alessia Virone posted Information | 22 May 2014

The UK-based New Economics Foundation first published “The Happy Planet Index: an index of human well-being and environmental impact” in 2006, in which countries were ranked in relation to three indicators of well-being: life satisfaction, life expectancy, and ecological footprint. The report...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy

Kyriaki POULIADOU uploaded a new Document | 22 May 2014

irpbuildingnaturalcapitalthroughreddmarch2014finallowres_en.pdf 8.42 MB

The report outlines how integrating REDD+ programmes into a Green Economy approach can conserve and even boost the economic and social benefits forests provide to human society. An investment of US $30 billion per year - under 7 per cent of the US $480 billion paid in annual global fossil fuel...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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