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The role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation
… assessment. POLICYMIX complements the TEEB study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity by developing an integrated impact assessment framework, … design was is also highly complementary with EU research on securing biodiversity conservation across different time and space scales in … Biodiversity …
Project, 22 June 2011
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Payments for coastal and marine ecosystem services: prospects and principles
… provide the world with a range of critical ‘ecosystem services’, from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet …
Publication, 01 June 2012
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019
Lilongwe's residents call it the "Garden City" because of its many green spaces (Photo: Gome Jenda )
Seeds of change: Lilongwe City Council recognises the value of urban nature
… Lilongwe City Council has been developing an action plan to integrate biodiversity into its planning decisions. Martha Kalemba, an … Department of Environmental Affairs, first became interested in biodiversity while studying at university. Inspired by stories of how … biodiversity report for Lilongwe that would assess the status of its ecosystems, including wetlands, parks and planted forests, as well as …
Article, 21 March 2016
Crops float on water
Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change
… sustainably using natural resources. These solutions support healthy ecosystems which can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change. … #resilience , adaptation, mitigation, but also in relation to the biodiversity crisis. And can be a vehicle to strengthen social justice … this year from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) highlights that …
Insight, 26 September 2019
Key role for biodiversity in the battle against poverty and climate change
… BirdLife International and Pavan Sukhdev — leader of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study. It warns that biodiversity loss is not only an environmental problem but also a … Biodiversity … Key role for biodiversity in the battle against poverty and climate change …
News, 15 October 2010
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Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do
… Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a target to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 ‘as a contribution to poverty alleviation’. In … (MA)offered compelling evidence of the positive links between biodiversity conservation and human well-being. In practice, however, biodiversity conservation and local people’s livelihoods often compete – …
Publication, 01 March 2007
Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems
… them are linked to the environment – protecting forests, water, and biodiversity – and some are about people, such as reducing poverty and … Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems …
Insight, 15 December 2015
An illustration of a mountain
Nature-based solutions for climate change: from global ambition to local action
… that protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges. They can provide a wide range … pledged more than GBP£100 million funding to stem accelerating biodiversity loss that will also contribute to climate change mitigation … Biodiversity …
Event, 22 May 2020
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Conservation versus food production in Africa: better managing trade-offs
… expansion is the greatest driver of the loss of nature and its biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. In Africa, this is … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 December 2019