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Community members at Mgahinga National Park, Uganda discuss the Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas methodology (Photo: Rob Small)
Enhancing the equity and effectiveness of protected area conservation
… biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing, and within the current Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) strategic plan, Aichi Target 11 calls for “equitable …
Project, 12 November 2018
Farmers sit in a field sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, Peru.
Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
… of the outcomes of the original Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. It was hailed at the time as a major step in promoting the …
Insight, 04 July 2012
Mainstreaming biodiversity, poverty reduction and development
… The 11 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took place in Hyderabad in October 2012. IIED, the  UN …
Article, 09 October 2012
Pastoralists discuss strengths and challenges of governance at a conservancy in Kenya. (Photo: Francesca Booker/IIED)
Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
… at the IUCN World Parks Congress in 2003, and subsequently in the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Programme of Work on Protected Areas that was …
Project, 23 April 2018
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An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning: A handbook of participatory tools used to prepare India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
… and Action Planning (NBSAP) process under the requirements of the Convention on Biological Diversity - with the extra challenge of integrating opinions over a vast …
Publication, 01 January 2005
A fisher waits with a large net attached to his small boat
New rules for governing high seas must be fair for everyone
… to develop its text. After agreeing the agenda for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) , and making sure …
Insight, 20 August 2019
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Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do
… In 2002 the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a target to significantly reduce biodiversity …
Publication, 01 March 2007
Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.
CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation
… set to be adopted at the next Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) and discussions at the UN climate summit (COP26) …
Insight, 21 August 2020
Policymakers at a UN meeting in New York discuss how to end the legal 'no man's land' on 50 per cent of the Earth's surface (Photo by IISD/Francis Dejon)
Governing the ungoverned 50% of the planet
… to better address the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction."  UN member states have … in 1982 that territorial waters were codified in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), providing a 12 nautical mile …
Insight, 11 April 2016
Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity
… well-being - even our existence - depends on ecological systems and biological diversity. Ecologists and economists alike recognise that loss of …
Publication, 01 January 1994