Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Subject "BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY"
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African Ocean Governance Strategy: Scoping Study and Gap Analysis
(2020)The purpose of this paper is to carry out a scoping study and gap analysis that examines existing ocean governance mechanism; and to provide recommendations that may provide elements of a concise African Strategy on ocean ... -
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate - Key Messages
(2021)1. Countries need to deliver on their existing commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land and make similar commitments for marine and coastal areas. 2. Unfortunately, we are still going in the wrong direction. ... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild Better - Key Messages
(2020)Governments around the world have invested about $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could contribute to progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global climate ... -
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment: Synthesis for Policy Makers
(2011)UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment aims to provide a better understanding of the underlying challenges facing the DRC and to help identify and develop promising opportunities to support sustainable economic ... -
El Peso de las Ciudades en América Latina y el Caribe: Requerimientos Futuros de Recursos y Potenciales Rutas de Actuación - Resumen para Tomadores de Decisiones
(2021)El presente resumen muestra las principales conclusiones de dicho informe , en el que se abordan las siguientes cuestiones: • Cuál es el peso actual de las ciudades (uso directo de recursos en el ámbito urbano) y el estimado ... -
Freshwater Strategic Priorities 2022–2025 to Implement UNEP’s Medium-Term Strategy
(2022-03)Water and water-related ecosystems play a fundamental role in the health of the environment, providing services to people and communities and combating the impacts of climate change and all economic activities. Working on ... -
Getting Climate-smart with the Mountain Gorilla in the Greater Virunga Landscape: A Species and Climate Change Brief for the Vanishing Treasures Programme
(2020)The brief examines how climate change has multiple, and often interacting, impacts on the mountain gorilla – be it on its physiology, on the ecosystems on which it depends, or on the behaviour of humans living in its ... -
Global Biodiversity Loss: Safeguarding Biodiversity from an Unprecedented Range of Threats - SDG Policy Brief No. 003
(2018-05)Biodiversity loss is caused by a range of different pressures, from habitat loss due to agricultural expansion, pollution or desertification to invasive alien species and climate change. Impacts of biodiversity loss are ... -
Human Rights and Biodiversity: Key Messages
(2021)This document highlights the key human rights obligations and responsibilities with respect to biodiversity-related agreements, policies, strategies and actions. -
Information Note on Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources - Prepared by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the Resumed eighteenth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) (12-16 September 2022, Dakar, Senegal
In recent years, DNA sequencing technologies have become faster, cheaper and more accurate. Digital sequence information, or DSI, on genetic resources is used in a range of activities commercial and non-commercial such as ... -
Information Note on the Development of the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework - prepared by the Co-Chairs of the Open-ended Working Group on Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for the Resumed eighteenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) (12-16 September 2022, Dakar, Senegal)
This note provides an update on the negotiations towards the adoption of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The Conference of the Parties, at its fourteenth meeting, adopted the preparatory process for the ... -
Innovative Solutions for the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - SDG Policy Brief No. 007 May 2019
(2019)The global environmental governance framework is not keeping pace with the rate of change that is driving environmental degradation and climate change. Innovative solutions are required to accelerate the transition towards ... -
Key Messages - Making Peace With Nature: A Scientific Blueprint to Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution Emergencies
(2021)• Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution add up to three self-inflicted planetary crises that are closely interconnected and put the well-being of current and future generations at unacceptable risk. • Ambitious ... -
La Dimensión ambiental en la planificación del desarrollo sostenible en Costa Rica: La aplicación de un enfoque integrado para la implementación de los ODS
(2018)Esta nota presenta información práctica respecto a las brechas, retos y áreas de oportunidad de Costa Rica para avanzar en una planificación de largo plazo que integre la dimensión ambiental y logre el desarrollo sostenible ... -
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Challenges - Foresight Brief No. 023 March 2021
(2021-03)Climate change was recently added to the wide range of agelong social challenges stemming from urbanisation. These challenges are becoming increasingly urgent to address. This is because cities are developing at the fastest ... -
A New Deal for Nature
(2019)In 2020, world leaders will meet in China to agree on a new set of commitments to conserve nature. They will also review progress towards targets set in 2010; but the news is not all good. Only a quarter of land on Earth ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Account for the True Value of Nature
(2019)Decisions that affect biodiversity have a key economic dimension. Global capital markets – responding to consumers – will determine in large part whether the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved by 2030. However, ... -
Quarterly Report to the 151st Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Ninth Issue - April to June 2020
(2020)COVID-19 response and impact remained a critical factor during this period. There were opportunities for innovation and there was a greater appreciation of the importance of nature-based solutions and the link between ...