Climate change impacts will affect social and ecological systems in complex and broad-ranging ways as technological, economic, social and ecological changes take place across regions, groups and sectors. Many of these impacts, such as impacts on ecological systems, have cascading effects on social, economic and health outcomes. In order to respond to climate change, more vigorous actions are required to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and to adapt to unavoidable consequences that are increasing vulnerability around the world.
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Our current economic models are unlikely to allow us to achieve the multiple
goals the international community has set, including Agenda 21 at the Rio Earth
Summit and the Millennium Development Goals set out at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development. Nearly twenty years after Rio, we have come to realize
that a more sophisticated economic lens and a more evolved economic model
are needed if we are collectively to thrive over the coming years and decades.
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Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal. The consequences of our recklessness are already apparent in human suffering, towering economic losses and the accelerating erosion of life on Earth.
This report represents a scientific blueprint for howclimate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report is a synthesis based on evidence from global environmental assessments.
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-807-3837-7
Ecosystems, from forests and freshwater to coral reefs and soils, deliver essential services
to humankind estimated to be worth over USD 72 trillion a year comparable to World
Gross National Income. Yet in 2010, nearly two-thirds of the globes ecosystems are considered
degraded as a result of damage, mismanagement and a failure to invest and reinvest
in their productivity, health and sustainability.
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-82-7701-083-0
Migratory birds are part of the lives of many people around the world: little children who are shown their first swallows' nest by their grandfather city dwellers, who hear the calling of geese overhead, herdsmen, whose animals are followed by wagtails and harriers that feed on flushed insects; fishermen on every sea, whose boats are accompanied by albatrosses, shearwaters or boobies.
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-937429-98-4
Physical Description: 63p. : ill. (col.), tables, diagrams ;
Wildlife watching activities play a significant and growing part in the tourism industry, and create direct and indirect economic benefits for many countries and communities - especially amongst developing countries. This form of tourism can certainly make important contributions to conservation by raising awareness of the animals observed and their habitats, by creating revenues for conservation and by creating jobs for local communities.
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ISBN/ISSN: 3-93-74-29-07-7
As climate change, disrupts local economies, ecosystems and biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean, implementing effective solutions is paramount. Over the last decade, UNDP has worked with countries to deploy Nature-based solutions (NbS) as an approach to meeting these multiple interconnected challenges while enhancing jobs and livelihoods and providing other socio-economic and ecosystem service benefits.
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Physical Description: 72 p.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) through its Pacific sub-regional office are joining forces to provide support to Pacific delegates to the international UN Oceans Conference.
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Physical Description: 2p. : ill. (col.) ; 29cm.
A report on the convention on migratory species for the conservation of cetaceans and their habitats in the Pacific Islands region
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Physical Description: 24 p.
Invasive alien species represent an insidious and pervasive threat to the environmental, economic and human well-being of the Pacific islands. Pacific island ecosystems make up one of the worlds important biodiversity hotspots, with high numbers of endemic species that are particularly vulnerable to extinction due to their limited habitat and isolation.|This book is intended to serve as a practical guide, calling attention to the need to link emergencies, disasters and development, not only in policy statements, but in practical ways.
In terms of both population and land area. Niue is one of the smallest self-governing nations in the world. It is unique by its formation as an uplifted coral atoll.
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0971-2,978-982-04-0972-9
Physical Description: 184 p. 29 cm
The rational for this Policy Brief is to make clear the vital benefits of integrating
biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management by taking the Ecosystemsbased
Adaptation approach along with the Green Economy Initiative to achieve
equitable multiple win-win objectives to ensure the continued well-being of human
society in the future.
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Physical Description: 20 p.
Seagrasses are an important of many coastal ecosystems worldwide. They are flowering plants, or angiosperms and grow as meadows in subtidal and intertidal zone in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas.
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Physical Description: 28 p.
The world is facing severe challenges. Billions of people around the world are suffering the consequences of the climate emergency, food and water insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecosystems are an indispensable ally as we meet these challenges. Protecting them and managing their resources in a sustainable manner is essential. But just increasing the protection and sustainable management of our remaining natural landscapes and oceans will not be enough, the planet's degraded ecosystems and the huge benefits that they provide must also be restored.
Since 1974, the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans (RSCAPs) Programme has evolved to consist of eighteen unique instruments for enhancing marine environmental cooperation tailored to regional specificites that are strategically placed to respond to the urgent call for securing planetary health.
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Physical Description: 40 p.
This report was compiled by contributors from regional seas conventions and action plans, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-807-3927-5
Physical Description: 153 p.
Coral reefs face threats from climate change and local pressures, but many initiatives designed to deliver conservation outcomes for them and the social-economic system they support are limited by sustainable finance and the availability of funds over the long term.
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Physical Description: 19 p.
Integrated management of coral reef foods, as a highly diverse set of blue foods, can contribute to addressing the dual challenge of malnutrition and biodiversity loss.
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Physical Description: 16 p.
The key highlights of this month issue include:
- Outcome of the Geneva biodiversity conference
- Blue Deal for economic recovery and sustainable growth
- Roles of indigenous communities in biodiversity protection
- Rise in online wildlife trade
- Financing chemicals and waste management
- Plastic taxes as new environmental policies
- Regionalizing UNEA 5.2 plastic resolution in East Africa
- Promoting the Science-Policy-Society Interface of synthetic biology
- Launching ACP MEAs 3 Youth Engagement and Training Initiative in Europe
This report provides a review of the current state of knowledge of cetacean diversity, habitat and threats in the Pacific Islands Region.