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Elephants in the Dust: the African Elephant Crisis. A Rapid Response Assessment
(2013)
This rapid response assessment report brings together critical up-to-date information from the CITES-recognized systems that monitor the status of elephants, the illegal killing of elephants, and the legal and illegal trade ...
Promoting Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Development
(2013)
This highly interactive and problem-based module provides students with theoretical concepts and practical tools in understanding environment and disaster linkages and applications of ecosystem-based disaster risk management. ...
Ecosystem based Adaptation
(2014-02)
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
(2019)
This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It proposes 18 gender-environment indicators for inclusion in the wider set of gender indicators, across the focal areas of ...
Ecosystem Restoration as a Nature-based Solution for Climate Action
(2019)
More than two billion hectares of the world's degraded landscapes and seascapes offer potential for
restoration. An initial target is the restoration of 500 000 ha of degraded ecosystems by 2030.
Protected Planet Report 2012: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2012)
For over a century the establishment of protected areas has been a fundamental strategy to conserve biodiversity. Today we know that well-managed protected areas support not only healthy ecosystems and threatened species, ...
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer
(2018)
This primer is designed to raise awareness of the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions. solutions most useful to water resources managers (section 3); and adopts the view that: • the first point of resilience to ...
Protected Planet Report 2018: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2018)
Based on the world’s most up to date records in the World Database on Protected Areas, managed jointly by UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, the report confirms that almost 15% of the earth’s land surface and inland waters, and just above ...
Protected Planet Report 2016: How Protected Areas Contribute to Achieving Global Targets for Biodiversity
(2016)
The report underscores the importance of protected areas in sustaining the functions and values of natural ecosystems as well as the needs of human society. It highlights the nature-based solutions that protected areas ...
The Restoration Initiative Year in Review 2019
(2020)
The first annual Year in Review of the Restoration Initiative presents highlights and stories from the first year of implementation of The Restoration Initiative (TRI) – a path-breaking Global Environment Facility (GEF) ...