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Montréal Declaration on Small-Scale Women Farmers for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
… believe are critical for the success of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Targets, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, … Montréal Declaration on Small-Scale Women Farmers for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use …
Publication, 09 December 2022
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica
Project, 13 December 2018
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of … are we doing in Nepal? The Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mountain Ecosystems (Mountain EbA) Project  was implemented from 2011 to 2016 by … Mountain Institute (TMI) in partnership with IUCN. March The Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM) featured evidence from the Mountain EbA …
Project, 26 June 2018
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of … to climate change, with emphasis on ecosystem-based adaptation and biodiversity conservation. The workshop highlighted the important … benefits that can be generated from sustainably managed fisheries ecosystems, including fish habitats and biodiversity, and instilled …
Project, 12 June 2018
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Supporting Counties in Kenya to Mainstream Climate Change in Development and Access Climate Finance project, Kenya
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 June 2018
A crocodile and three ducks
Q&A: Fulufhelo Mukhadi on mainstreaming biodiversity in South Africa
… Q: Tell us a bit about SANBI's work on biodiversity-development mainstreaming FM: We've been working since 2004 to mainstream biodiversity issues into development initiatives. Whenever we've made … revealed among other things that wetlands were our most threatened ecosystems, and that river tributaries were in a better state than the …
Article, 18 November 2014
A scientist studies mangroves in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Mangrove ecosystems support fisheries, prevent coastal erosion and store large amounts of carbon (Photo: Kate Evans/CIFOR)
Call for feedback: inventory of tools to support ecosystem-based adaptation
News, 19 December 2016
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Local conditions and policy design determine whether ecological compensation can achieve No Net Loss goals
… impacts of development projects and achieve No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, failures are widely reported. … potential net impacts of alternative compensation policies on biodiversity (indicated by native vegetation) and two ecosystem services … Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Mozambique). No policy achieves NNL of biodiversity in any case study. Two factors limit their potential …
Publication, 13 April 2020
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… What do some of the leading development NGOs and biodiversity have in common? Well, it may surprise you to learn that one (biodiversity) is a recurring feature in the programmes of the other … largely been absent from discussions on the post-2020 international biodiversity policy framework. The framework, to be agreed in October, …
Insight, 29 January 2020
Old woman walks in the forest holding a stick.
How the Amazon bioeconomy can catalyse an inclusive green economy
… planet as a whole. It is essential in balancing the climate, and its biodiversity is immense – including more than two thousand fish species, … – changes in rainfall, prolonged dry seasons, impoverished forest ecosystems. In 2021, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research  (in … productive chains based on the management and cultivation of native biodiversity. It includes the value chain of biocosmetics, …
Insight, 27 June 2022