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A GEF-funded project in Angola is seeking to help climate-vulnerable coastal communities by using ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) – a type of ‘ nature-based solution’ that uses ecosystem services to reduce the negative impacts of...
The UN Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General on 23 September 2019, brought great political attention to the power of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for climate and sustainable development, and underlined the...
Agenda EU Green Week Session 3.2 Fostering investments of the EU's Circular Economy Package
This report presents the first in-depth inter national comparative assessment of the envir onmental and resource impacts of different energy technologies, modelled over the whole life cycle of each technology, from cradle to grave...
Every year, the sum of humanity’s knowledge increases exponentially. And as we learn more, we also learn there is much we still don’t know. Plastic litter in our oceans is one area where we need to learn more, and we need to learn...
The report identifies opportunities and challenges in implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in Africa and looks ahead to actions which need to be taken by national governments and other decision makers to...
This short document provides illustrative examples of how biodiversity can play an essential role in efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The report provides insights into the economic potential of the ocean, the rising demand for marine ecosystem goods and services, and the environmental changes that are underway. The report also highlights opportunities to avoid...
In 2013-2016, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC) supported a pilot demonstration project on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...