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UN Environment COP22 Events
(2016)
This brochure highlights key UN Environment events during COP22.
Making the Connection: Economic Growth, Poverty and the Environment
(2007)
This briefing paper makes the case for mainstreaming environmental considerations into policy, planning and budgeting processes at the national and district level. It substantiates the linkages between economic growth,
poverty ...
Making EbA an Effective Part of Balanced Adaptation Strategies: Introducing the UNEP EbA Briefing Notes - Briefing Note 1
(2020)
This briefing note serves as an introduction to the series, with a focus on creating conceptual clarity on EbA and its relation to other related approaches, as well as how EbA is key to achieving a much needed paradigm ...
EbA in Different Ecosystems: Placing Measures in Context - Briefing Note 3
(2020)
This briefing note provides an overview of EbA measures commonly implemented in particular ecosystems (mountains, drylands, wetlands, coasts, and urban systems), reflecting interventions supported by UN Environment EbA ...
Selecting Complementary Adaptation Measures - Briefing Note 4
(2020)
To respond to climate change hazards and impacts, an overall adaptation strategy should be devised drawing on the full range of possible adaptation solutions.
This briefing note provides an overview of the range of ...
Integrating EbA into National Planning - Briefing Note 6
(2020)
To effectively address the negative impacts of climate change now and in the future, climate change adaptation strategies need to be integrated into wider national policies and planning processes – adaptation cannot stand ...
Navigating the Adaptation Challenge - Briefing Note 2
(2020)
This Briefing Note introduces how resilience thinking, which considers interactions within a coupled socialecological system, can help to navigate the adaptation challenge and explores the use of ecosystems as part of the ...
Developing the Economic Case for EbA - Briefing Note 5
(2020)
This briefing note highlights the range of information that should be incorporated in making an economic case for EbA, and the relevance of compiling it for all adaptation solutions to help ensure that EbA options are ...
UNEP and EbA - Briefing Note 7
(2020)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a strong history of supporting the
development and implementation of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA). Since the term EbA was
adopted by the Convention on Biological ...
Incorporating Blue Carbon in the Nationally Contributions (NDCs) of the Countries in Western Indian Ocean Region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2018)
The “carbon sink” service is one of the numerous important benefits blue carbon ecosystems provide to human well-being, along with food security, water quality improvement, raw materials and shoreline protection among ...