Browsing Discussion Papers, Concepts and Proposals by Title
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Conservation Opportunities Under Climate Change Considerations: the Experience from the Amazon Biome
(2019)The creation of new protected areas or the expansion of existing ones, especially in zones where conservation and resilience potentials are high, their inclusion in landscape approaches and the implementation of strategies ... -
Conservation through Land Titling of Indigenous Peoples Lands and Sustainable Management of their Natural Resources
In many parts of Central America you see a great overlap between the intact forests and the indigenous peoples territories, as the indigenous peoples have been living in these areas for generations and have fought to ... -
Constructing a Culture of Resilience Against Climate Change for Rural Families in Bolivia
(2019)Capacity-building for community adaptation: This component will strengthen community capacities through increased awareness about climate change issues and the development of adaptive capacity. This will be done through ... -
Constructing Green Small Hydropower of Ecofriendly Environment, Social Harmony, Standardized Management and Economic Rationality
(2019)The proposal is to vigorously develop small green hydropower stations by scientific planning and design, standardization of construction management, optimization of operation scheduling, governance and restoration of ... -
The Contribution of Central African Forests to the Global Fight Against Climate Change
Central African countries engage to increase their climate ambition, maintain/stabilize their forest cover and thus continue to stock the equivalent of approximately 70 GT of C. The Central African rainforest will thus ... -
Contribution to the Nature-based Solutions Proposition for the Climate Action Summit 2019
(2019)Under the International Platform for Insetting (IPI), sustainability leaders who are pioneering the concept of insetting collaborate in order to further enhance and develop this emerging and promising approach. They work ... -
Contributions of the UN Environment Assembly to the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
(2019)Ensuring the health of the environment is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, taking urgent action to curb global average temperature rise to well below 2C will prove critical ... -
Coral Reef Rescue - Building Climate Change Resilient Reefs and Communities
(2019)This is an ambitious initiative focused on coral reefs (and linked systems) that seeks to create mechanisms and mobilize resources to conserve low vulnerability reefs that have potential to re-seed to other regions once ... -
Creating Synergies Across Global Assessments: The Possibility of Harmonized Glossaries [Draft]
(2021-12)Many UN-led global assessments are produced each year. With the launch of each of these publications, they are typically supported with a glossary to enhance the exchange of information and facilitate communication with ... -
Criteria for the Listing of Species In the Annexes of the SPAW Protocol
Article 21 of the SPAW Protocol calls for the Contracting Parties to evaluate and adopt common guidelines and criteria formulated by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), dealing, inter alia with the ... -
Data Management, Governance: Foundations for Achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework - Supporting Environmental Policy and Governance:
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-10)The paper is divided into two sections, the first providing an overview of key issues and processes to be considered while working on data and information governance and the second a set of principles and standards to be ... -
Delivering for People and the Planet: Fifth Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo V): Proposal for the Work by the United Nations Environment Programme in the Area of Environmental Law for a Specific Period beginning in 2020
Draft agreed during the meeting of the group of friends of the co-chairs for the Montevideo Programme IV -
Delivering for People and the Planet: Fifth Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo V): Proposal for the Work by the United Nations Environment Programme in the Area of Environmental Law for a Specific Period beginning in 2020: First Draft
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Description of GEO-7 Proposed Support Services
(2022-11)Member States in Resolution 5/3 decided that the “Global Environment Outlook process should identify intergovernmentally defined needs and terms for the provision of support for capacity-building, knowledge generation and ... -
Desk Review on Nutrient Pollution as a Regional and Transboundary Challenge in the East Asian Seas Region
(2021-02)The objective of this desk review is to compile information on: • Sources, sinks, fate and transport, and impacts of pollution, focusing mainly on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P); • National and regional nutrient reduction ... -
Develop, promote and scale-up Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
The Principality of Monaco was one of the first countries in the world to develop this type of technology. Monaco installed its first OTEC heat pump in 1963 and now has over 80. The Principality plans to develop, in the ... -
Developing a Scalable Business Model to Support Large-scale Global Coral Reef Restoration
(2019)Coral Vita’s land-based farms integrate breakthrough methods to accelerate coral growth up to 50x (microfragmenting) while enhancing their resiliency to warming and acidifying oceans (assisted evolution). And our model ... -
Developing Innovative Solutions that Reduce Vulnerability and Build Resilience to Ocean Risk
The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) brings together organisations from the public and private sectors and civil society focused on developing risk management strategies using the experience and expertise ...