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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Mountain EbA Project, Nepal
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 July 2018
Woman bends over a seedbed.
IIED at the 2022 Nature-based Solutions Conference
… and to help ensure they support thriving human societies and ecosystems without compromising efforts to keep fossil fuels in the … Speakers Dilys Roe (co-chair), principal researcher and team leader (biodiversity), IIED  Helen Tugendhat (co-chair), programme coordinator, … adaptation Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss Money where it matters for people, nature and climate: …
Event, 05 July 2022
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Mountain EbA Project, Uganda
… 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 hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… 2013 there were few journalists in Zimbabwe who knew what the term 'biodiversity' really meant. Only a handful knew why policymakers should consider the effect on biodiversity of the decisions they made in the name of development. As a … briefed them on the different components of biodiversity including ecosystems, species and genetic diversity. The group travelled from …
Article, 21 March 2016
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… institutions, enterprises, or projects that link the conservation of biodiversity to human livelihood, through the principles of sustainable … The Nature and Culture Summit: Biological and Cultural Diversity for Biodiversity and Human Resilience Achieving the Sustainable Development … adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal ecosystems | Biocultural innovation: the key to global food security? | …
Event, 17 November 2018
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Mexico’s Payments for Ecosystem Services Programme
… Services Programme (PSAH) and the Programme of Payments for Carbon, Biodiversity and Agroforestry Services (PSA-CABSA). These programmes … cash compensation: payments for watershed services, and payments for biodiversity conservation (Aemi et al., 2013). ~Implementing this … This case study is one of several relating to the Toolkit: Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers. To access the …
Publication, 01 March 2018
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… As with many other environmental assets, like clean water, biodiversity is unpriced and its benefits (as well as the costs of its … of, climate change. For example, preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can help provide natural protection against flooding, while … if they are considered in isolation. The irreparable loss of biodiversity can increase the vulnerability of poor people to climate …
Article, 16 August 2013
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Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
… EbA at the watershed level  can drive changes at scale across diverse ecosystems and create links between a diversity of approaches across a … how can EbA support the Paris Agreement and the Global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework at the local, regional and national level? 2. … now, practitioners have been telling powerful stories of how healthy ecosystems are helping people cope better with extreme weather events. …
Insight, 12 July 2021
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Incentive-based Hilsa Conservation Programme, Bangladesh
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 June 2018
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Policy brief: The importance of ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation actions in the Nationally Determined Contributions
Publication, 29 July 2021