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

NEW GUIDELINES Integrating the environment and climate change into EU international cooperation and development

Hanna Petri uploaded a new Document | 13 May 2016

mainstreaming_guidelines.pdf 5.65 MB

These guidelines provide a framework for strengthening the contribution of European Union (EU) international cooperation and development policy to sustainable development by integrating, or mainstreaming, environmental and climate change considerations into the different phases of the EU programme...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Adaptation Gap Report 2016

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 10 May 2016

agr2016.pdf 4.51 MB

UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report series focuses on Finance, Technology and Knowledge gaps in climate change adaptation. The latest report builds on a 2014 assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which laid out the concept of ‘adaptation gaps’ and outlined three such gaps:...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
New Task Force Set to Stop Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 10 May 2016

See more on UNEP's group in Capacity4Dev: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/unep/blog/new-task-force-set-stop-illegal-killing-taking-and-trade-migratory-birds

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Wildlife Conservation for Development

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 10 May 2016

Africa’s wildlife is disappearing at an alarming rate, encroached on by a human population set to double by 2050. The latest European Commission report on conserving the continent’s biodiversity is entitled ‘Larger than Elephants’, reflecting that the species and landscapes at risk go far beyond...

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Wildlife Conservation for Development

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 10 May 2016

Still wondering if and how conserving wildlife can/should/does matter for development ? Read this interesting post on the Capacity4Dev Coordination Group, with interviews of Conrad Aveling (key expert of the B4Life Facility), Philippe Mayaux (Head of Sector Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at DG...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
New Task Force Set to Stop Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 9 May 2016

On World Migratory Bird Day a new intergovernmental coalition aims to end the illegal killing, taking and trade of millions of migratory birds, starting in the Mediterranean 9 May 2016 –The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) announced today the creation of the Intergovernmental Task Force on...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Looking ahead: preparing for UNEA-2

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 3 May 2016

WATCH LIVE Opening Plenary (English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r02AsFZBcUo French Plenary (French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCjhFwHH-s The forthcoming second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) will take place at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, from 23...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity into Agricultural Production and Management to Minimize the Use of Agrochemicals. Technical Guidance Document

Francesca Mancini uploaded a new Document | 3 May 2016

mainstreamingecosystemservicesand_agriculture-east_africa-technical_guidance_document.pdf 4.88 MB

Agriculture is central to human well-being and sustainable development. However, essentially every statement on the future of agriculture acknowledges that a transformation is needed in the way the sector is conducted. Agriculture has to achieve the dual and interrelated goals of food and...

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
UNEP Launches its 2015 Annual Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 29 April 2016

Nairobi, 29 April 2016 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched its 2015 Annual Report website and print, highlighting many achievements in support of sustainable development, including the redirection of hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital to a better future...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UNEP 2015 Annual Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 29 April 2016

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Annual Report of UNEP on its work in 2015. The report highlights many achievements in support of sustainable development, including the redirection of hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital to a better future for all humanity.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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