Discussion Document for Session 4: Environment and Health Linkages in Asia Pacific, First Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific

Since the 1980s, shrimp farming has emerged in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and South America. The construction of shrimp ponds has resulted in significant loss of coastal wetlands such as mangroves, seagrass ...

purpose of the strategy is threefold: firstly to catalyse a new approach to national development, with ecosystem restoration being central to development planning and investment; secondly to promote broad and representative ...

We, comprising of Major Groups and Stakeholders from the African region, gathered virtually to discuss how Africa can enhance environmental action for effective post-COVID recovery and our contribution to the Africa ...

The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 (the “UN Decade”) is designed to inspire a global movement in support of preventing, halting and reversing the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. This document ...

The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was established in 1985 and promotes regional cooperation between African Governments and stakeholders in addressing emerging environmental challenges. AMCEN ...

This document describes the Action Plan that Latin America and the Caribbean wishes to undertake for the next ten years to promote, improve, accelerate and scale-up ecosystem restoration in the region. It is a regional-level ...

Human well-being ultimately depends on the health of the ecosystems which envelope and sustain us. We exploit ecosystems for the food, water, and timber we need for everyday living. We depend on ecosystem processes to ...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the success of Rio+20 through demonstrating the key role that Ecosystem Management has in underpinning the Green Economy and illustrating the advantages of this approach. In ...

The document has been prepared in response to the decision of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans made at the 18th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans so as to provide guiding elements ...