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

2016 Oxford Adaptation Academy

Lesley Downing created a new event | 15 March 2016

14 Aug

From 14 August 2016 to 26 August 2016
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by Jointly run by Global Climate Adaptation Partnership and Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, Oxford University

‘The course is structured to prepare future leaders capable to deal with a complex and wicked problem like climate change and adapting to climate change. It marries an understanding of the complexity of climate science and climate data with the skills that are needed to be a change agent and leader...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Legacy of waste from Great East Japan earthquake underscores need for urgent action on marine litter

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 15 March 2016

Five years ago, a 30 foot wall of cold, black water crashed into the east coast of Japan. The tsunami's raging waters, which were triggered by a 9.0 earthquake, killed nearly 16,000 people, wiped out entire towns and villages and caused one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The power of the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Stikine 229

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIN Total Basin Name Area_km 2 Stikine 229 51128 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km 2 Percentage 50122 98 Canada 1006 2 United States of America Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 48.589100 14.576730 870 0.001479 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Roia 202

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIN Total Basin Name Area_km 2 Roia 202 626 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km 2 Percentage 421 67 France 205 33 Italy Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 0.000000 0.000000 20,500 0.034850 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution Country Water...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Red/Song Hong 196

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Red/Song Hong 196 156718 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 84109 54 China 1181 1 Laos, People's Democratic Republic of 71428 46 Vietnam Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 84.298700 25.289610 29,811,500 50...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Po 186

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Po 186 87213 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 329 0 France 82515 95 Italy 4369 5 Switzerland Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 37.105944 11.131783 18,055,480 30.694316 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Negro 158

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Negro 158 5735 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 614 11 Honduras 5121 89 Nicaragua Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 3.255560 0.976668 278,200 0.472940 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Loffa 135

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2016

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Loffa 135 11352 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 1311 12 Guinea 10041 88 Liberia Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 18.991900 1.899190 293,900 0.293900 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Flurry 75

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 14 March 2016

Basin name Total Basin Area_km Area_km Flurry 75 60 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km percentage 29 48 Ireland 31 52 United Kingdom Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 0.000000 0.000000 8,100 0.013770 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution Country...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Shared Lessons from Sepsis & Sustainable Development - Keynote Address by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 11 March 2016

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner delivered a keynote address at “Sepsis: the Challenges of Science, Politics and Society” – a joint symposium by the Jena University Hospital and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina – on 10 March 2016. In his speech he addressed the issue of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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