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Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… Goals, especially those related to hunger (SDG #2), poverty reduction (SDG#1), and the ocean (SDG#14). 2. Changes … Goals, especially those related to hunger (SDG #2), poverty reduction (SDG#1), and sustainable use of the oceans, …
Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century
… and sanitation and lifting women and their families from poverty with microloans and jobs. They explain how networks … in all corners of the world, working for example on poverty reduction, river basin management, landscape …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… regard for those who are made more vulnerable due to poverty. Article 12 recognizes a right to food, and Article … Parties and that both economic and social development and poverty eradication constitute ‘first and overriding … interrelationships with important social problems such as poverty, poor health and nutrition, lack of food security, …
Accountability through Civic Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
… Development Agenda, A New global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable … is intended very broadly. While those who live in extreme poverty are integral to the purposes of this report, the term … cities, with statistics suggesting a resulting impact on poverty levels.99 In India, such outcomes have been stymied …
Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats
… activities and maritime piracy, particularly in Somalia. Poverty has created ideal conditions for local populations to … the local level, environmental crime is an alternative to poverty for disadvantaged populations. It can provide an … by criminal networks, suggesting a connection between poverty and environmental crime. At the national level, weak …
Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… has shown that unless explicit steps are taken to address poverty issues, payment schemes can increase the … holders can out-compete smaller farmers, causing deeper poverty. In Costa Rica, exclusion of the poor from payment … the social impacts of the scheme and its implications for poverty reduction. To further increase their effectiveness, …
Gender Action Plan of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BRS-GAP) for 2014-2015
… of waste. In this way, progress can be made in the area of poverty eradication, health, education, gender equality, … lead to a greater recognition of the links between gender, poverty and hazardous chemicals and wastes. 5. Objectives 10 …
Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, poverty eradication and environmental sustainability and … sustainable development of agriculture in the context of poverty alleviation and climate change and acknowledging the … conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, poverty eradication and environmental sustainability and …
The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices
… funding for (inter alia) many projects to help alleviate poverty, promote trade and support sustainable urban … these areas to the development of small island states and poverty alleviation by promoting sustainable food policies … coastline change, traditional knowledge and management, poverty reduction, and best practice in freshwater …
Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India
… oil and gas exploitation, maritime transport, etc. and poverty, and the lack of attention on poverty reduction through sound management of ecosystem … the ecosystem services. In examining the incidence of poverty among people who are dependent on coastal and marine …