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Atmospheric brown clouds Regional Assesment report with focus on Asia
… India), Hajime Akimoto (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan), Maximilian Auffhammer (University of … The build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the resulting global warming pose major environmental threats to Asia’s … primarily attributed in IPCC reports and other studies to global warming due to increases in greenhouse gases. The …
Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), Plant health and food security
… people to leave their homeland. Today, due to increasing global trade and a changing climate, plant pests and diseases … pose a greater threat to food security than ever before as global trade increases the change of these pests moving from … affecting potatoes. In China, the “potato as staple food strategy” was launched in 2015 and now potato production is …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… Informed Consent GIS Geographic Information Systems GPS Global Positioning Systems GR Genetic Resources ICCA … frameworks are important for dealing with modern global concerns such as biodiversity loss and climate change, … diversity". We wish to add our voices to ongoing global discussions regarding the protection of biological …
Additional Reading - CBD Programme of Work on technology transfer and technological and scientific cooperatioN
… of the current rate of bio- diversity loss at the global, regional and national level by 2010. Implementation … as set out, inter alia, in the national biodiversity strategy and action plan. PROGRAMME ELEMENT 1:TECHNOLOGY … if any, to improve accordingly national biodiversity strategy and action plans, national research and technology …
Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas
… and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard naturals resources at local, regional and global levels. W O R L D C O M M I S S I O N O N P R O T E C … occurs. If a park decides to use registration, a mixed strategy can work well, e.g., using guest registers in …
Defining Nature-based Solutions
… negotiations in 2009, was introduced in the 2013-2016 IUCN Global Programme and considered as a milestone for IUCN, representing a third of its Global Programme; NOTING that the concept of NbS builds on … and adaptation and their potential to contribute to the global climate change regulatory regime; 5.084 Promoting …
Large Marine Ecosystem Mechanisms
… Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Global Environment Facility - International waters 3. … science, law and economics in one single governance strategy. Unlike Regional Seas and RFBs, LME are identified … Large Marine Ecosystems website http://www.lme.noaa.gov 2. Global Environment Facility - International waters The Global …