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Site discussions to integrate biodiversity into mine planning and operations (Photo: SANBI)
Mining for common ground: putting biodiversity on South African mining companies' agendas
… to help mining companies understand the status of and risks to biodiversity, and the opportunities for using a biodiverse environment … interest groups has laid the foundation for change.  South Africa: biodiversity and mining South Africa is the third most biodiverse … Stephen Holness, a consultant working with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) , helped to facilitate the guidelines. He …
Article, 21 March 2016
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Biodiversity and Development Co-operation
… how development cooperation is addressing the twin objectives of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use on the one hand, and … It outlines how development co-operation can: Support mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into development Manage for results, … and synergies Incorporate monitoring and evaluating approaches into biodiversity-related development co-operation activities, and Better …
Publication, 18 May 2015
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Making ecosystem-based adaptation effective: a framework for defining qualification criteria and quality standards
Publication, 01 May 2017
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Costa Rica’s Payments for Ecosystem Services programme
… the provision of four main ecosystem services: carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, water regulation and landscape beauty. It makes … This case study is one of several relating to the Toolkit: Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers. To access the …
Publication, 01 March 2018
Forest with abundant vegetation
World leaders urged to back innovative nature financing at One Forest Summit in Gabon
… Supporting and scaling up innovative nature finance, including biodiversity-positive carbon credits, and nature certificates or … significant gap in funding for the safeguarding and restoration of biodiversity and benefit Indigenous People and local communities, … right way, they could help to preserve precious plants, animals, and ecosystems, while channelling finance to local communities and …
News, 01 March 2023
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… extinction. This is faster than at any other period in human history. Ecosystems – the vital systems on which all life depends – are being degraded across the globe. This crisis of biodiversity loss is finally getting some attention. But its connection … cultures – is rarely mentioned. From animals to insects and plants, biodiversity loss cannot be effectively addressed without tackling the …
Insight, 18 February 2020
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Participatory Plant Breeding and Community Supported Agriculture project, China
Publication, 01 June 2018
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Potato Park and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, Peru
… 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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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Climate Resilient Livestock Production on Communal Lands project, South Africa
Publication, 01 June 2018
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The contribution of cities to local and planetary health - equity, ecosystem services and nature
… Biodiversity …
Publication, 27 April 2022