Discussion Papers, Concepts and Proposals: Recent submissions
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Biodiversity and Climate Change
(2019)Biodiversity is as important as climate change and both must be treated with equal importance. Climate change is a major factor in the erosion of biodiversity. Changes in atmospheric temperature and precipitation, ocean ... -
The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART): Attracting New Investment to Protect and Restore Forests
(2019)ART will provide a credible, independent program overseen by a global Board, and run by a Secretariat. It includes a rigorous Standard to quantify emissions reductions from REDD+ activities at a jurisdictional and national ... -
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 ... -
Integrating Green and Gray Infrastructure Planning for Water
(2019)This contribution includes: (i) A methodological component, that supports the valuation of the benefits delivered by NbSW; and the innovative business cases that incentivize private, public, and development sector investment ... -
Andes Action: Restoration of One Million Hectares of High Andean Forest Ecosystems
(2019)Andes Action is a new Latin American-led large-scale restoration initiative, aiming to restore one million hectares of high Andean ecosystems (mostly Polylepis forests) in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and ... -
Heritage Colombia (HECO): Resilient Landscapes that Maximizes Contribution to Colombia´s Mitigation and Adaptation Goals
(2019)Heritage Colombia (HECO) is a paradigm changing program, that through a resilient landscapes approach and a long term financial scheme, will strengthen the adaptation and mitigation to climate change of rural Colombia ... -
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 ... -
Protected Areas and Resilient Landscapes: Project Finance for Permanence in Colombia, Perú and Bhutan
(2019)Protected areas and other conserved areas, such as indigenous and community conserved lands and sacred natural areas, have played a critical role in biodiversity conservation for the past century. Beyond providing a haven ... -
Food and Land Use System Transformation
(2019)Governments, including ministries of finance and planning, will work together on the transformation agenda for food, land and water systems by: Developing aspirational, long-term targets and pathways that set clear direction ... -
Food System Transformation: A Sustainable and Healthy Nature-based Solution
(2019)The organizations behind this contribution commit to taking action within national and subnational jurisdictions as well as in business strategies and practices to address two key drivers of climate change and malnutrition ... -
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. ... -
Global Blue Carbon 10-Year Initiative
(2019)To achieve comprehensive protection and effective management of the global blue carbon ecosystems, reverse the degradation trend, maintain marine biodiversity, and improve carbon sequestration capacity; Large-scale restoration ... -
Persisting in Water Conservation and Strengthening Water Resources Management
(2019)The proposed initiatives take water conservation as a prerequisite for water resources development and utilization. To increase water conservation efforts, to strengthen water resources development and utilization management ... -
Global Network for Planting and Breeding Combination and Recycling
(2019)It mainly includes: a. The role and significance of planting and breeding combination and recycling; b. The main mode and content of the planting and breeding combination and recycling (planting and breeding combination ... -
Urban and Rural Water Supply “the Same Source, the Same Quality, the Same Pipe Network, the Same Service”
(2019)It is proposed to increase the scale of water supply projects in rural areas by extending the urban water supply pipe network, building large-scale water supply projects, connecting small water supply projects to the grid, ... -
Initiative of the International Big Science Research Plan: Three Poles Environment and Climate Change
(2019)The Initiative of the International Big Science Research Plan: Three Poles Environment and Climate Change aims to promote scientific and technological innovation and cooperation among various sectors of the international ... -
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 ... -
Global Action on Desert Vegetation Restoration for Carbon Sinking to Tackle and Mitigate Climate Change
(2019)Base on the Kubuqi Model, we advocate a sustainable industry-driven desert management action plan by utilizing the curable desert land worldwide, aiming at the increase of desert vegetation coverage, improvement of regional ... -
4 Million Trees in 4 years Initiative (4MT4Y)
(2019)In the fight against climate change and protecting our environment and rich biodiversity, the Fijian Government is embarking on the ‘4 million trees in 4 years initiative’(4MT4Y) as it recognizes the important service that ... -
Science & Technology Actions on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change
(2019)The objective of the initiative, Science &Technology Actions on Nature-Based Solutions is to call on the governments, international organizations, NGOs, etc. to jointly strengthen science and technology innovation and ...
