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The UNCCD: Laying the groundwork for future security (2014-2015)
… the same time reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Ecosystem-based climate change adaptation at a landscape … -- but it is not yet easily accessible. Using Land and Ecosystem Valuation to Promote SLM Investments The integrated economic valuation of land and ecosystem services was identified at the 2nd UNCCD Scientific …
Energy law and sustainable development
… some of these implications. One principal analytic tool of ecosystem management is measuring the flow of energy through … unite the two sectors of biology and energy. If global ecosystem management has any meaning, it needs to be in the … from agriculture to oceans to biodiversity represented by ecosystem and human and other animal survivability – all this …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore … www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/pa-text-en.pdf Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund: www.cepf.net Global Amphibian … Partnership Fund, and formed the basis for their Cycle 4 Ecosystem Profiles. Further support to the work of the …
Protection of primary forests, including intact forest landscapes
… landscapes, play in maintaining biodiversity, providing ecosystem goods and services on which human society depends, … irreplaceable in terms of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services including clean water; FURTHER NOTING that … (UNFCCC COP21) recognised the importance of ensuring ecosystem integrity and the role of forests in sequestering …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement (and Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) MENA Middle East and North Africa (IUCN … the essential synergy between people’s interests and ecosystem resilience. Rights-based approaches Exploring … and the environment, legal frameworks for payments for ecosystem services and water resources governance. He has …
Brochure - Sustainable Ocean Initiative
… managed and harvested sustainably, legally and applying ecosystem based approaches, so that overfishing is avoid- ed, … areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and … order to safeguard marine and coastal biodiversity, marine ecosystem services, and sustainable livelihoods; and to adapt …
Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General
… protection and restoration of the integrity of the Earth’s ecosystem. This entails an obligation to cooperate in good … of living systems. It comprises genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. Its usage in international environmental … Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (2010); Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: …