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Restoring Forests and Lands as a Crucial Response to Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Bonn Challenge +) - Proposed Contribution from IUCN for the NBS Proposition of the UNSG's Climate Action Summit 2019
(2019)
The initiative will send a message of hope by showcasing credible and measurable progress in pledges and in implementation on the ground (drawing on information from the BC Barometer of Progress). It will also contribute ...
Achieving Multiple Global Objectives in a Synergistic and Pragmatic Manner through Scaling up Public-Private Partnerships for Managing Protected Areas
(2019)
How the contribution leverages living natural systems as a solution to avert climate change? Ensuring nature-based climate solutions are about conserving and restoring wild places and planting indigenous species, so that ...
Sustainable Growth, livelihoods and Eco-system Restoration Initiative
(2019)
The initiative will develop, support and implement projects and programmes on: Promoting biodiversity and mitigating land degradation; Protecting the marine environment from land-based activities; Protecting the ecological ...
The Annual Kofi Annan Faith Briefings: Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality: The Role of UN and Multi-Faith Collaboration
(2019)
The purpose of the Kofi Annan Faith Briefings is: i) To provide a dedicated and ‘regular’ space, during a key intergovernmental moment capitalizing on the unique constellation of geopolitical and socio-cultural human ...
Belt and Road Initiative Green Development Coalition
(2019)
BRIGC is an open, inclusive and voluntary international network which aims to incorporate green development into the Belt and Road Initiative, promote international consensus and collective actions on the development of ...
Synthesis of Voluntary Submissions by Functional Commissions of the Economic and Social Council and other Intergovernmental Bodies and Forums - Note by the Secretariat
(10/05/2019)
The present document provides a synthesis of the voluntary submissions prepared by functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council and other intergovernmental bodies and forums. It synthesizes the 62 voluntary ...
NBS Good Practices from Chinese Government: Abandoned Shrimp Pond Reforestation and Sustainable Development
(2019)
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 ...
Regional Sector Report: Integrated Waste Management Focus on Green Business Development - Switch Africa Green
(2019)
Overall objective of the SAG programme is to support the 6 countries to achieve sustainable development as a transition towards an inclusive green economy, based on sustainable consumption and production patterns, while ...
Sustainable Tourism Regional Meeting - SWITCH Africa Green
(2019)
Responsible Tourism Requirements SANS 1162:2011 Sustainable Tourism is defined as a tourism management strategy in which the tourism sector and tourists take responsibility to protect and conserve the natural environment, ...