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Nature-based solutions to address climate change

… Climate change combines with other stressors that impact biodiversity, such as degradation and fragmentation of … adaptation to climate change: Mitigation Terrestrial and marine ecosystems play an important role in the global carbon … health and proper functioning, in land, coastal or marine environments. Thus, healthy, resilient, functional and …
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Interactions between aquaculture and the environment

… 15 Guide A: Domestication 21 Guide B: Introduced Marine Species 27 Guide C: Capture of Wild Stocks for … guidelines to ensure its sustainable development. The Marine Programme of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) has … collaboration should be supported to address transboundary biodiversity impacts of introduced species as stated in UNEP/ …
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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action

… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living … Photo: Cover – At the heart of Urok’s Community Marine Protected Area, Bijagós archipelago, Guinea Bissau. © …
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A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species

… to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. IUCN has approximately 1000 staff, … 17 2.2.2.1 Introductions to Marine and Coastal Ecosystems … and tourism (Corn, 1999). The growth in international marine, air and land transportation provides diverse pathways …
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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… processes. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi Biodiversity Targets call for a decrease in pollution and … the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, … “the prevention and significant reduction of all kinds of marine pollution, in particular from land-based activities, …
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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… Citation UNEP (2016) Enhancing cooperation among the seven biodiversity related agreements and conventions at the … and least developed countries of the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of … Goal 14 (conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development) and Goal 15 …
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Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives

… 2. Biodiversity … in the compilation: (a) Air pollution and air quality; (b) Biodiversity; (c) Chemicals and wastes; Compilation of … necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment resulting from the use of technologies … of species, alien or new, to a particular part of the marine environment, which may cause significant and harmful …
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Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration

… 14), “conserve and sus- tainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”, which will be … Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 14.1 By 2025, … ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in …
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Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK

… how well Category V does as against Category IV in meeting biodiversity targets). A Report and Recommendations on the … LNR Local Nature Reserve LWS Local Wildlife Site MCZ Marine Conservation Zone MPA Marine Protected Area NCUK(IUCN) National Committee for the …
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National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar

… focused on harnessing the values associated with coastal marine carbon and ecosystem services to achieve improved … of national development, climate change, forestry, and biodiversity, as well as marine resource management. The report also undertakes a …
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