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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
… adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to … degraded over total land area Target 15 By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon …
A Review of Migratory Bird Flyways and Priorities for Management - TS No. 27
… current threats, stakeholders may be able to improve the resilience of some species to cope with and adapt to climate … this question, we should also seek to maximise the resilience of such networks in the face of global climate … in the U.S. is described as a testament to the amazing resilience of bird populations where the health of their …
Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… rates, and urgent action is needed to ensure the resilience of nature and to avoid catastrophic tipping … with others to explore options for increasing the resilience of corals, at least in local situations, in order … • Submitted a proposal (accepted) for an event on “resilience of antelopes” at the 2012 IUCN World Conservation …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… events. This project, funded by UNDP, seeks to increase resilience to climate change water-related risks in the most … participation, and information - and so delivering climate resilience, strengthening civic society, alleviating poverty, … adapt to the effects of climate change by building their resilience to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… lowering breeding potential, and generally eroding the resilience of agricultural systems. Trends in … MEA puts it: “Such declines in genetic diversity lower the resilience and adaptability of domesticated species. Some of … to external forces, while environmental changes put the resilience of time-tested cultures under pressure (Sarmiento …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… 28 See Greenland, D.J., and I. Szabolcs, Eds., 1994, Soil Resilience and Sustainable Land Use, CBA International, … that all soils have ecological limits in that their resilience to their degradation and loss of soil biodiversity … have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural or managed ecosystems …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… densities sufficient to conserve ecosystem integrity and resilience in the long term; To contribute in particular to … to maintain the components, functions, processes and resilience of aquatic ecosystems which provide goods and … Buying Time: A user’s guide to building resistance and resilience to climate change in natural systems, pp. 217–233. …