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Tree branch stuck in the sea.
Listen to young people: cultural practices can provide answers to the climate problem
Insight, 26 September 2021
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Green China: Chinese insights on environment and development
… by heavy metals. Scarce arable land and water resources and important biodiversity are being lost. China’s carbon and nitrous oxide emissions … jobs and additional poverty reduction without further undermining ecosystems and the natural resource base. This means rethinking links …
Publication, 01 March 2012
A man points to a wild chimpanzee up a tree
Markets and payments for environmental services
… are paid to manage their resources to protect watersheds, conserve biodiversity or capture carbon dioxide (carbon sequestration) through, … used on land, it is only just gaining momentum in coastal and marine ecosystems. PES is an increasingly popular conservation and resource … Biodiversity …
Project, 03 October 2008
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Putting pastoralists on the policy agenda: Land alienation in southern Ethiopia
Publication, 01 July 2010
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
A sustainable ocean by 2030
Insight, 14 September 2015
Cover for 17034FIIED.pdf
Biodiversité, changement climatique et pauvreté
… Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 February 2008
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Biodiversité, changement climatique et pauvreté
… Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 February 2008
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… Colombia .  This ecosystem unique to the Andes is home to significant biodiversity and a key source of fresh water (to find out more about it, …
Insight, 21 December 2020
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… exploitation mean that this lawlessness now poses threats to the rich biodiversity and habitats of the open oceans. We do have the United … key issues facing the high seas: overfishing; large-scale habitat and biodiversity loss; poor management and enforcement; and inadequate …
Insight, 14 February 2013
Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)
Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?
… Bangladesh In the coastal fisheries of Bangladesh, some important biodiversity areas are off-limits but fishers set their nets where they …
Insight, 27 November 2014