| dc.description | This Month's Highlight
• Historic UN agreement on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters.
• Women, Climate and Nature: Regenerative Seascapes project in coastal region of the West Indian
Ocean to mitigate the impact of climate change
• Nature-based solutions in cities to become more resilient to climate change
• Roundtables event hosted by UK government on increasing private finance for the
implementation of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
• One Forest Summit in Gabon for the preservation and sustainable management of rainforests
• GEF report on biodiversity-positive carbon credits and nature certificates
• IISD Policy Brief for a strong framework for sound chemicals management
• Gabon, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka launch a USD 14 million joint UNEP-GEF project to eliminate
mercury from skin lightening products
• Organization of Cook Islands Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures workshop
• Launch of mobile tool Kobo Toolbox for field collection of environment data in Samoa
• Abidjan Convention’s activities to operationalize Marine Protected Areas in Benin
• Cartagena Convention’s activities for MARPOL implementation in the Dominican Republic
• Approval of St. Lucia’s Marine Litter Management Action Plan (ML-MAP), developed with support
from ACP MEAs 3 and UNEP | en_US |
