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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… water security and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The 2011 launch of the Bonn Challenge was a key … approaches to improving food security and climate change mitigation and adaptation, including climate-smart … crops 5. Forests for watershed management 6. Forests for wetland, lake and river protection 7. Silvopastoral New large …
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Securing the future for global peatlands

… is located in a designated protected area or is subject to wetland preservation laws; The World Conservation Congress, … Charter, by the Ramsar Convention in its classification of wetland type, and by IUCN; 2. REQUESTS the World Commission … strategic actions of the FAO 'guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable …
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IUCN response to the Paris Climate Change Agreement

… the role of nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation and their potential to contribute … protected areas into climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies (all adopted in Jeju, 2012); … Union to advance nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation; RECOGNISING the role of Council's …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… http://leo.informea.org/terms/wetland http://leo.informea.org/terms/fishery …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… is to protect water resources such as a watershed or a wetland, from the risk of contamination (Water Act, 2011). In … requires a share of available water to maintain river and wetland health. The entitlements also support the river …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… be able to provide opportunities for both adaptation and mitigation activities. For example, the use of solar energy … The challenge will be in balancing adaptation and mitigation activities with land tenure and pastoral rights … basin. • Some dam reservoirs provide productive fringing wetland ecosystems with fish and waterfowl habitat …
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Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… pollution 5. Wastewater pollution • Nutrient pollution 6. Wetland disconnectivity 7. Ecosystem impacts from dams 8. … Lakes • Lake influence Deltas • Relative sea level rise • Wetland ecological threat • Population pressure • Delta … impacts human livelihoods and health in the long term. The Wetland Disconnectivity, Ecosystem Impacts from Dams, and …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… from water from the high Andes. Their river basins include wetland systems with high biodiversity, that deliver water to … from water from the high Andes. Their river basins include wetland systems with high biodiversity, that deliver water to …
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Economic valuation of ecological functions and services of natural ecosystems

… various biological, chemical and physical elements of a wetland such as the nutrients cycling, biological … similar good or service to value the non market use of the wetland. Natural resources: goods and services that are … wetlands or their regulating services. For example: floods mitigation. Existence value: non use value that is simply …
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The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements’ Conference of the Parties and its validity

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