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Biocredits to finance nature and people: emerging lessons
… Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or … and are preferred to biodiversity offsets, which can cause net damage to biodiversity. Demand for biocredits is growing among private …
Publication, 05 December 2022
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Resetting climate negotiations: LDC priorities for an ambitious COP26
… for COP26 from the perspective of LDCs. We explore the scientific and political context that will shape how the meeting takes place and … for adaptation and sufficient climate finance flows, and address the loss and damage already being experienced by the most vulnerable countries. But …
Publication, 18 October 2021
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Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
… human history. Direct drivers of the decline include changes in land and sea use, over-exploitation of organisms, climate change, pollution … and political factors. Such a rapid decline is causing significant damage to the global economy and human wellbeing and threatens to … a “Leaders Pledge for Nature”, committing to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030, and sending a united signal to step up global ambition for …
Publication, 27 August 2021
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Ensuring COP25 delivers increased ambition in 2020
… To that end, COP25 must finalise rules for the use of carbon markets and common timeframes for submission of Nationally Determined … review and strengthen the institutional mechanisms to address loss and damage. Adoption of these rules at COP25 will provide much-needed …
Publication, 01 November 2019
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Human–wildlife conflict and insurance. Can insurance reduce the costs of living with wildlife?
… conservation priority. This threat to coexistence between humans and animals is particularly serious in developing countries, where … include schemes to financially offset affected individuals for their loss. To succeed, these schemes need to ensure cost-effective verification, fair and timely payments, incentives for damage prevention and financial sustainability. This paper reviews how …
Publication, 01 March 2019
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Meeting the enhanced transparency framework: what next for the LDCs?
Publication, 01 October 2019
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Higher ambition for lower temperatures: what LDCs could achieve at COP24
Publication, 01 November 2018
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Strengthening capacity to diversify farmer business models for climate resilience
… from Viet Nam is the ninth of ten case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).  It describes the actions of the Viet Nam … floods; cold spells; and hailstorms. These events have increased crop damage, increased the incidence of disease, reduced yields as well as …
Publication, 08 December 2020
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Climate change responses in a context of uncertainty
Publication, 01 December 2016
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Dealing with unavoidable climate costs
Publication, 01 April 2013