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Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats

… Assembly UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNOCC United Nations Operations and Crisis Centre … of challenges which derive from environmental issues:  Climate Change  Disasters and Conflicts  Ecosystem …
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The human right to water and sanitation

… in order to promote biological diversity and resilience to climate change, maintaining safe water supplies relies on the health … resource and that in light of global challenges, such as climate change, growing population, increased consumption, …
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The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

… www.iucn.org IUCN Policy and Global Change Group IUCN Publications Services Unit 219c Huntingdon … of biological resources, spread of invasive alien species, climate change, and continued loss of biodiversity. However, … or contexts, in a wide range of fields including climate change, marine fisheries, food standards, transport …
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Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… In effect, with the entry into force of the CBD, a change of paradigm was put in place as the conservation … process under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), international multilateralism could still … conservation, and the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, Recognizing the special nature of …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with regard to issues such as: the vulnerability of … and the possible role of wetlands in combating climate change by functioning as natural carbon sinks. 24. …
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Protected areas and other areas important for biodiversity in relation to environmentally damaging industrial activities and infrastructure development

… goals; FURTHER RECOGNISING the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the essential part played by protected areas and … effective area-based conservation measures to achieve climate change adaptation and mitigation; ACKNOWLEDGING the …
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Capacity Development Needs and Priorities for Nature Conservation in South-Eastern Europe

… deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges in climate, food and development. IUCN supports scientific … what can be done within the scope of projects to influence change. South Eastern Europe is undergoing profound changes … informal grouping of like-minded energy, environment and climate Ministers from across 13 EU member states5 (including …
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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… leads to further attacks against defenders, resulting in a climate of impunity (see A/58/380, para. 73, and A/65/223, … and respond to many challenges facing our planet, from climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution to …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… communities; pollution is altering biogeochemical and climate cycles; and fishing, hunting and trade are decimating … general level, we need extensive societal and cultural change to focus on the root causes of biodiversity loss (Wood … (Dobson et al. 1997a), as will responses to anthropogenic climate change (Lovejoy and Hannah 2005). The CBD overview of …
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 5.2.2 Change ways of thinking: build involvement and awareness . . … control and storm protection, nutrient retention and micro-climate stabilisation, and the production and consumption … and supplies, carbon sequestration, nutrient retention, climate regulation, etc. Option values Premium placed on …
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