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Author Q&A: A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
… Reid is a consultant with IIED's Climate Change research group and biodiversity team. Alongside Amanda Bourne, Halcyone Muller, Karen … lives and livelihoods. EbA involves the restoration and protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse … has many co-benefits such as carbon sequestration, poverty reduction, biodiversity conservation and disaster risk reduction. Despite its …
Article, 23 November 2020
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Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance
… edition of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) ‘ Local Biodiversity Outlook ’ notes that disregarding of the vital … and sustainable use contributed to the underachievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets . To avoid repeating this mistake, it is vital that … managing it themselves.  Funders’ tendency to prioritise ‘high-value’ ecosystems is another major barrier for most Indigenous Peoples. At the …
Insight, 13 July 2022
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities excluded from decision making on money to help them tackle nature loss
… more than US$2 billion to their communities to help them tackle the biodiversity crisis, according to new preliminary analysis from the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) and IIED.  The analysis looked at 16 funds which … nature is a key aspect of negotiations to agree a new global biodiversity framework which are taking place in Montreal at the moment, …
News, 13 December 2022
Combine harvesters in a wheat field
Is adaptation the missing ingredient from the new UN biodiversity action plan?
Insight, 24 February 2020
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Protecting and restoring critical water related ecosystems in mountains: the role of Indigenous Peoples and biocultural territories in mountain ecosystems
… mountain communities play a crucial role in protecting water-related ecosystems in mountains, through cultural and spiritual values and … laws for conservation and sustainable use. However, mountain ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP and LCs) … to risk, and reduced and erratic rainfall. At the same time, mountain ecosystems and communities face growing pressures from unsustainable …
Event, 24 March 2023
A family harvesting potatoes in front of a lake, with a landscape of mountains in the background.
Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
… Human life depends on biodiversity, but biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and the human … world leaders will gather to agree new post-2020 targets to address biodiversity loss in the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties … Biodiversity … Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss …
News, 23 September 2020
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Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis
Insight, 30 June 2020
A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency
… The United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. However, around that time, media outlets and other sources … of information revealed that most people do not fully understand what biodiversity is. Public understanding has hopefully improved since 2010. … sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this …
Insight, 25 July 2019
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Biocredits could break logjam over finance to conserve and restore nature
News, 05 December 2022
Indigenous women in Bangladesh's Lawachara National Park collecting wood for building (Photo: Fabian Lambeck, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Three ‘E’s to guide the post-2020 biodiversity roadmap
… The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference (Convention on Biological Diversity COP14) will mark a crucial stepping stone towards the landmark 2020 ’biodiversity moment’. The November meeting begins the two-year countdown … and spiritual relationships with ancestral territories and the ecosystems that support them. Case studies of collective action  show …
Insight, 06 November 2018