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UNEP & Climate Adaptation: What We Do
(2022-10)
Climate change is already impacting every country on earth. It now clear that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is no longer enough. We must also adapt to changing climate that is here and now. As emphasized by the UN ...
Climate Solution: Rewilding Europe to Invigorate Local Economies
(2019)
Collective purchase by local residents of an 8400-hectare estate where 800 hectares of woodland has now been restored. Previously, this area was used for sheep grazing, and as shooting areas, and although this use of the ...
Indicator Metrics for the 11 DSF Sustainability Criteria
(2019)
The objective of DSF in creating these reporting guidelines is to make reporting across all 11 high level indicators as simple and efficient as possible, while providing adequate resolution to demonstrate continuous ...
Strengthening Protection of Rivers and Lakes, Maintaining Healthiness in Rivers and Lakes
(2019)
The initiative proposes to prohibit the illegal occupation of river and lakes and strengthen the control of the shoreline for protection of river and lakes. Firstly, strengthen the spatial management of river and lakes. ...
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 ...
Environment Outlook and Pathways for Asia Pacific - First Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
The overall message is that the environmental consequences of traditional models of development are undermining development itself. The second section of this paper summarises critical environmental trends. The third section ...
Promoting Ecosystems for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
(2015)
The main focus of the paper is to examine potential areas of integration and synergy, highlighting how sustainable ecosystems management approaches help facilitate integration of CCA and DRR. A total of 38 (Eco-DRR, EBA ...
NBS Good Practice: River and Lake Chiefs
(2019)
The implementation of river (lake) long system has the following advantages: the management and protection of river and lakes will be strengthened; the storage capacity of river and lakes will be increased; the guarantee ...
Drawing a “Red Line” for Ecological Protection to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change
(2019)
The initiative will call for active implementation of national spatial planning measures, based on scientific research and data, put forward a set of methodologies and guidelines for land use
planning including the ...