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

Green Development News #11

Katharine Mill updated the Information | 16 May 2019

The new edition of our quarterly newsletter is now out, in English and French, and with a focus in this edition on climate change and sustainable energy policy and programmes. The newsletter is produced by DG International Cooperation and Development's units for Sustainable Energy & Climate...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
10 May is EU Overshoot Day - How to reduce the EU’s Ecological Footprint? - report on a meeting on 7 May in Brussels

Alexa Froger updated the Debate | 10 May 2019

10 May is EU Overshoot Day! The Global Footprint Network and WWF have calculated that if all the people in the world had the same ecological footprint as an average EU citizen, 10 May would be the date after which humanity will have used up as much from nature than our planet can renew in this year...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Veronika Hunt Šafránková, Head of the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office

Alexa Froger updated the WIKI page | 3 May 2019

Veronika is Head of the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office since April 2019. As Head of the Brussels Office she is responsible for promoting and facilitating partnership-building between UNEP and EU institutions as well as key EU stakeholders in Brussels. This includes taking the lead on...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
ENROLL TODAY! Online course on Marine Litter starting on 29 April

Alexa Froger updated the Information | 26 April 2019

How can we collectively take action to address the marine litter crisis? UN Environment, in cooperation with the Open University of the Netherlands, has launched the 3 rd free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Marine Litter . The MOOC has been created in order to stimulate leadership and offers...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Planet Earth needs you – Green Talents competion 2019 – apply now!

Stephanie Franke updated the Information | 25 April 2019

Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious ” Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development ” to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas. The award, under the patronage of Minister Anja...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
Video: Training rats and social entrepreneurship

Stefania Serviddio updated the Information | 23 April 2019

Training rats can save lives? In 1997, Belgian engineer Bart Weetjens founded APOPO, an NGO that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. APOPO is a social enterprise that, according to his founder, has several advantages over traditional and institution-driven...

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Group: Private Sector and Trade
Gorillas pose for the cameras, in Virunga

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 23 April 2019

You might have recently seen caretakers Mathieu and Patrick’s amazing #selfie with female orphaned gorillas Ndakazi and Ndeze inside the Senkwekwe center here at Virunga. Is it real? Yes! Are these gorilla gals always this cheeky? Yes! #gorillaselfie pic.twitter.com/jINBr8HXx7 — Virunga...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Alexa Froger commented on a debate | 18 April 2019

Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Committee of the Whole of the United Nations Environment Assembly at its fourth session on 11 - 15 March 2019

Merci pour votre message. Oui, les resolutions sont disponibles en francais sous les liens derriere 'francais' (en surbrillance bleue) apres chaque titre de resolution. Il manque pour le moment seulement la version francaise de la Declaration ministerielle. Nous activerons le lien quand nous l'...

Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Yadira Molina commented on an article | 16 April 2019

EU-Honduras Timber Negotiations Strengthen Fight against Illegal Logging

Since 2013, the MaderaVerde Foundation (FMV) leads the Governance Platforms (PG) in Atlántida and Colón, in its participation in the AVA-FLEGT process, promoting collaborative initiatives to face the challenges experienced in the forestry sector, especially by community-based organizations that...
Veronika Hunt Šafránková, Head of the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office

Alexa Froger updated the WIKI page | 15 April 2019

Veronika is Head of the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office since April 2019. As Head of the Brussels Office she is responsible for promoting and facilitating partnership-building between UNEP and EU institutions as well as key EU stakeholders in Brussels. This includes taking the lead on...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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