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

African Wildlife Conservation Strategy

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 27 April 2017

An EU response to the African Wildlife Crisis DG INTPA has developed a holistic strategy to plan its activities in support of African wildlife conservation. " Larger than Elephants: inputs for an EU strategic approach to wildlife conservation in Africa" (synthesis and regional analysis publications...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Biodiversity for Life (B4Life)

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 27 April 2017

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
Sustainable Development Goal 14 explained in a nutshell

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 21 April 2017

Sustainable Development Goal 14 aims at conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Ocean covers approximately 70% of the earth's surface and are a vital resource for humanity yet they are under threat from overfishing, marine pollution, ocean...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
FAO in Zambia: Conservation agriculture mechanization

Capacity4dev Team uploaded a new Document | 20 April 2017

zambia_conservation_agriculture_mechanization_fact_sheet.pdf 560.52 KB

Conventional methods of land preparation and cropping practices can contribute to the degradation of soils and have limited efforts to raise agricultural production beyond subsistence levels in Zambia. Zambia is at high risk of being affected by soaring agricultural commodity and inputs prices...

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Project: FISRI Zambia
Marine Litter MOOC

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 12 April 2017

Course Summary: Marine litter is a global problem that affects every ocean of the world. Litter is an environmental, human health and socio-economic problem that is a symptom of a highly disposable society. With worldwide growth in the amount of solid litter thrown away every day and slow rates of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
"Green Talents 2017" Announcement in Russian

Stephanie Franke updated the Document | 12 April 2017

Green Talents_Award2017_ApplyNow_Russian_2.pdf 156.87 KB

Russian version of the press release related to the "Green Talents 2017" competion. Background: 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...

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Group: Environment in the EU's Eastern neighbours
Fiche d'action - Ecofaune+

Sarah Klonski uploaded a new Document | 11 April 2017

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Fiche d'action - Ecofaune+

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Support services

Patricia Rodriguez Fortun updated the WIKI page | 29 March 2017

The Environment and Climate Change Facilities support DEVCO units C2 and C6 in their missions to promote and implement the environmental dimension of the new sustainable development agenda, across the 17 SDGs. The Facilities are composed of technical experts that provide thematic guidance,...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Strategic approaches for wildlife conservation in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the marine environment

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 23 March 2017

The EU is in the process of developing continent-wide strategic approaches for wildlife conservation. The strategic approach for Africa, Larger than Elephants, was published in 2015/16. It comprises two publications: a synthesis and a full regional analysis to serve as a basis for planning and...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Resource Efficiency - Potential and Economic Implications

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 22 March 2017

resource_efficiency_report_march_2017_web_res.pdf 22.43 MB

The report "Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications" issued by UN Environment International Resource Panel, was commissioned in 2015 by the Group of Seven (G7) countries and released in Berlin at a workshop on resource efficiency for the Group of Twenty (G20) countries on March...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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