Browsing Knowledge Repository by Topic "Nature Action and biodiversity"
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Elements for the Development of a Marine Mammal Action Plan for the Wider Caribbean: A Review of Marine Mammal Distribution
(2001)At the Inter-governmental Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Convention in Kingston, Jamaica (February 2000), the Parties adopted the Scientific Committees’ recommendation for the timely development of a Marine Mammal ... -
Enhancing Sustainable Tourism Innovation for Community Empowerment in Kenya (SUS-TOUR) - SWITCH Africa Green
(2021)This impact sheet on Enhancing Sustainable Tourism Innovation for Community Empowerment in Kenya (SUS-TOUR) provides a snapshot of results and achievements of the project under the Green Business Development Component of ... -
Faith for Earth Updates - April, 2021
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For People and Planet: The United Nations Environment Programme strategy for tackling climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste from 2022—2025
In its decision 4/1, the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) requested the Executive Director of UNEP to submit for consideration and approval by the Environment Assembly ... -
Gaps and Opportunities for Synergies in International Environmental Law on Climate and Biodiversity to Promote the Sustainable Development Goals - International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2019 Chapter 3
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2020)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a new mode of governance through shared goals instead of legally binding international agreements. Nevertheless, global action is required as the sustainability challenges ... -
GEO-6 for Youth
(2021)GEO-6 states that unless we radically and urgently change our economies and our societies, we will not be able to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.One of the greatest challenges facing young ... -
Getting Climate-smart with the Mountain Gorilla in the Greater Virunga Landscape: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
(2020)The brief examines how climate change has multiple, and often interacting, impacts on the mountain gorilla – be it on its physiology, on the ecosystems on which it depends, or on the behaviour of humans living in its ... -
Getting Climate-smart with the Royal Bengal Tiger in Bhutan: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
This brief is one of three in a series that also includes the mountain gorilla and the snow leopard, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting ... -
Getting Climate-smart with the Snow Leopard in Central Asia: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
This brief is one in a series that also includes the mountain gorilla and the royal Bengal tiger, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting ... -
Governing Coastal Resources: Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy
(2021)Coastal resources - including fish, minerals and energy - are critical to people, nature and the economy, and are a focus for the emerging sustainable blue economy agenda. Whilst there is no globally agreed definition of ... -
Green Approaches to COVID-19 Recovery: Policy Note for Parliamentarians
(2020)“Green approaches to COVID-19 recovery: Policy note for parliamentarians,” is a joint publication of UNEP and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The note guides states in developing environmentally-conscious legal responses ... -
Green Manufacturing in Africa: Focus on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) - SWITCH Africa Green
(2020)This report presents an analysis of the implementation and results of the SWITCH Africa Green programme in the manufacturing sector focusing on the participating countries Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa ... -
Guia Rápido: UN Biodiversity Lab - UNBL para Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores
(2021)Considerando o papel das Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (EFS) na promoção da boa governança e transparência na implementação de políticas públicas, elas podem desempenhar um papel crítico na conservação da biodiversidade ... -
Human Rights and Biodiversity: Key Messages
(2021)This document highlights the key human rights obligations and responsibilities with respect to biodiversity-related agreements, policies, strategies and actions. -
Integrated Waste Management in Africa: Focus on Circularity - SWITCH Africa Green
(2020)This report presents an analysis of the implementation and results of the SWITCH Africa Green programme in the integrated waste management (IWM) sector focusing on the participating countries: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, ... -
Interlinkages between the Chemicals and Waste Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Biodiversity: Key Insights
(2021)The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is part of a cluster of biodiversity-related MEAs that includes, among others, its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and ... -
Islam and Food Systems - Position Paper May 2021
(2021)Food plays cultural and spiritual roles for Muslims. The Qur’an makes special references to pure and lawful food and to the principles of balance, justice and health. However, our current extractive approach to food and ... -
Key Messages - Making Peace With Nature: A Scientific Blueprint to Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution Emergencies
(2021)• Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution add up to three self-inflicted planetary crises that are closely interconnected and put the well-being of current and future generations at unacceptable risk. • Ambitious ... -
Landscape-scale Planning to Support Conservation, Nomadic Livelihoods and Sustainable Development in Mongolia - Case Study
(2021)Infrastructure’s environmental, social, and economic sustainability should be assessed as early as possible in the planning and preparation cycle, covering both financial and non-financial factors across interdependent ...