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… ..... 13 3.6 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol … Programme UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UPA …

… systems – a critical asset in an era of dramatic global change. Sacred natural sites are significant due to their … food, air and water, most essen- tial in stabilizing climate, most unique in cultural and natural heritage and … of pollution, natural disasters, and the effects of climate change and other socially derived threats, such as …

… contain biomass of high value for regulating the global climate and that they guarantee the food and medicinal … on maintaining the ecological processes that enable climate change pressure and natural resource demands to be resisted, …

… The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“UNFCCC”) was negotiated by a specially established … may sound logical, but as the negotiations surrounding climate change show, states can always invoke opinions of …

… on biodiversity being experienced? (e.g. land cover change, overharvesting, water abstraction, invasive alien … in the landscape, or considering how adaptation to climate change could be facilitated, amongst other factors. … evolve and change over time, for example, in response to climate change. Such ecosystem changes typically happen over …

… in preventing, buffering or mitigating impacts of global change on human livelihoods and the environment. 3. Areas of … economic production, environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation. The TWAP assessment covers 42 … used, where possible, for acquiring population statistics, climate data and climate projections, and geo-referenced data …

… in preventing, buffering or mitigating impacts of global change on human livelihoods and the environment. 3. Areas of … economic production, environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation. The TWAP assessment covers 42 … used, where possible, for acquiring population statistics, climate data and climate projections, and geo-referenced data …

… contributions to meeting global challenges of climate change, food security and economic and social development and … biodiversity conservation and enhance their resilience to climate change and other stressors, through increased efforts …

… at any cost. Rhetoric on sustainable development and climate change will prove empty if those defending their land and the … be protected. Especially given their global commitments on climate change.”30 FAILING TO RECOGNISE, FAILING TO PROTECT …

… have created. Other threats include population pressures, climate change, ethnic tensions, loss of cultural identity and a lack … scales and consequential impacts. Some threats such as climate change and international tourism have a global …