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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The definition is … seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services through scientific assessments, the … reasons any protected area is important, such as providing ecosystem services, protecting species and supporting the …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… 4 1.3 Ecosystem protection and management … 189 10.4.2 Embracing the ecosystem approach … in the Pacific to the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem. While each case study presents its own unique … as well as natural processes like climate change. An ecosystem approach that considers the totality of impacts, …
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Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 ARTICLE 25: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 ARTICLE 26: ECOSYSTEM APPROACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution MA The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment MARPOL International Convention on the …
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Net Positive Impact for biodiversity. The business case

… addressing biodiversity issues Many businesses rely on ecosystem goods (e.g. timber, fisheries and natural … global assessment found that almost two-thirds of the ecosystem services examined are being degraded or used unsustainably (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005a). If current trends continue, …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… areas also provide a wide range of other essential ecosystem services (Figgis et al. 2015, MA 2005). For … vitally important as they provide greater biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits than smaller and more disturbed … 1999). Larger areas are also important to maximize ecosystem services, for example to protect globally …
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IUCN response to the Paris Climate Change Agreement

… global climate change regulatory regime, 5.084 Promoting ecosystem-based adaptation, 5.085 Climate change justice and … nature-based solutions that build upon conservation and ecosystem-based mitigation and adaptation, and for IUCN to … biodiversity offsets and primary forests; b. advance ecosystem-based mitigation programmatic work including on …
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CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”

… Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment and the UN convention on climate change … Fund IPBES Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPHA International Professional Hunters … (proposed) Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) could focus on the making of …
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

… In 2000 the CBD also adopted twelve principles of an ecosystem approach, which set biodiversity conservation in … needs and stress the importance of maintaining ecosystem functions, achieving sustainable economic benefits, … idea of paying local communities and individuals for the ecosystem services – including biodiversity conservation – …
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Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas

… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values” (Dudley 2008, p. 8), … play an important role in providing a variety of ecosystem services (MEA 2005a, b; de Groot & Ramakrishnan … biodiversity (UNESCO 2012) and the safeguarding of the ecosystem services they provide. As the advisory body to the …
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Regional Fisheries Instruments and Bodies

… Living Resources Objectives and scope Geographical scope Ecosystem approach Conservation measures Institutional … but only CCAMLR and the IBSFC take a more holistic, ecosystem-oriented approach. Some RFBs are in the process or … for some time, there has been some modest progress towards ecosystem-based management. For example, Parties whose …
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