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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… draft report. Interviewees were speaking in their personal capacity and their views may not be the official policy of … “offsets”? 68 6.5.1 Additionality 68 6.5.2 Conservation or capacity building? 69 6.5.3 Conservation or development? 71 7 How to …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… as one of the most vulnerable, due to its limited adaptive capacity. Yet, there remains hope for the application of … where and how these work, a suite of solutions and building blocks of successful approaches can be drawn out … both mitigation services through their sequestration capacity in soils and biomass, and adaptation services, …
International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review
… aim is to strengthen and build environmental negotiation capacity and governance worldwide. For the past thirteen … regards non-com- pliance as resulting primarily from capacity constraints on the part of states, whereas the … information assis- tance, expert advice and capacity-building) to induce compliant behavior, before recommending …
Energy law and sustainable development
… generating fees sufficient to pay for the investment in building and operating the energy systems, (b) providing a … in support of national efforts, including through capacity-building, [and] financial and technological … national energy laws. In the period after Stockholm, "capacity building" in legislation was focused on the …
Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
… Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA or the Treaty) is all about building bridges and connecting countries and people; it is … conserved these resources over the ages. By encouraging capacity-building, the Treaty offers a third example of a new … of multilateralism suited to an interdependent world. The capacity-building of stakeholders in the conservation and …
The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration
… river banks has lead to erosion and flooding and reduced capacity of the watersheds to absorb water. Along with the … in steep catchments and deforestation has reduced the capacity of the landscape to retain water. The resultant … development used to suffer from poor planning. Building of roads by municipalities to connect rural areas …
Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa
… …. At a time when human beings are becoming aware of their capacity to irreversibly destroy the nature that has … possible to conserve natural resources and biodiversity, building a dense network, representative of all ecosystems. … often closely linked to knowledge of the context, the capacity to accompany and facilitate the phase that prepares …
Accountability through Civic Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
… participation in global review processes — resources and capacity 14 Interaction between citizens and the State 15 … Accountability, voice, and Responsiveness; A UNDP Capacity Development Resource, Conference Paper #6, Working … deliberation requires meaningful discourse and capacity- building. Stakeholder input should not be merely included pro …
Establishing marine protected area networks
… recovering wildlife and ecosystem processes; and o work on building networks should start now if we are to accomplish … that it will guide the entities involved in building the capacity they needed to deliver such networks.Without … Adaptive management can be used to improve management capacity and effectiveness, particularly through professional …