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Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas
… deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges in climate, food and development. IUCN supports scientific … a time of rapid biophysical, institutional, and cultural change. CBO employs an actionable science model that informs … include water, carbon, nature-based tourism and hazard mitigation (version 2) and timber, fuelwood, grazing/fodder, …
UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… agendas that address issues like health, development and climate change. They feature even less prominently in financial … responsive legal systems, multisectoral actions for mitigation and health system readiness for early detection …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… Development 1.3 Groundwater Management: Need for Change Chapter 2. Groundwater Systems 2.1 Groundwater … reduces resilience of communities and economies to climate change. Sustainable groundwater management supports … The national arsenic map identified priority areas for mitigation, patient identification and treatment, awareness …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… 76 vi Chapter 5 The dynamics of change … Ozone Layer, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. 28 This Convention, … ecosystems that could be affected;• A description of the mitigation measures used for minimising negative effects on …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… conservation. It also helps combat the impacts of climate change and applies an ecosystem-based approach in the adaptation to climate change. The Dinaric Arc represents an important …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… 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 … is an important new area of investigation. One area of mitigation might be to develop lists of vulnerable species …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… in response to environmental concerns, particularly climate change and local pollution. In some cases, governments … case studies to offer a large potential for greenhouse-gas mitigation. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 per year …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world … seriously and consider how they can contribute to its mitigation. These events are called Sense and Sustainability, …