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Guidance Note: Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Linkages into National Development Planning
(2009)
Experience continues to show that better environmental management can contribute greatly to improving health, resilience to environmental risks, economic development and livelihood opportunities, especially for the poor. ...
Making the case for ecosystem-based adaptation: building resilience to climate change
(2012-03)
Healthy ecosystems provide valuable services such as food, clean water, protection from disease, and flood and erosion control, while at the same time building resilience against climate change impacts. This has been ...
Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone - Executive Summary
(2013)
This document provides up-to-date information and confirms the close relationship that exists between the state of transboundary natural resources, poverty, and recurring social conflicts.
Guidelines and Checklists to Review Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
(2010)
An environmental and social impact assessment report is a statement about the likely impacts of a proposal and how the identified negative impacts can be mitigated and managed and how the positive impacts can be enhanced. ...
The Role of Legal Instruments to Support Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development : A Guidebook on Assessing, Selecting and Implementing Legal Instruments
(2013)
The purpose of this Guidebook is to provide guidance to government decision makers and their advisers on best practices in designing or modifying legal frameworks and specific legal instruments aimed at effectively supporting ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment Resource Kit
(2005)
The NCSA Resource Kit was developed to provide countries with a “tool box” of capacity development approaches, techniques and tools, based on international best practices and NCSA experience to date. The purpose of the kit ...
Mainstreaming poverty, environment linkages into development planning: a handbook for practitioners
(, 2009)
This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. It draws on a substantial body ...
Project Proposal Document: Toward an Ecosystem Approach for Sustaining the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems
(United Nations Development Programme, 2003-10-31)
This Project is one of three, perhaps four individual Projects, involving each of the GEF Implementing Agencies, in the same geographic area with worked that is linked so that a programmatic approach is developed to conserve ...
World Ozone Day 2021 - Uzbekistan
(2021)
Uzbekistan's activities in commemoration of World Ozone Day, 16 September 2021
Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone
(2013-06)
This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of an 18 month long assessment of the border between the two countries that share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – Haiti, the poorest country in the ...