Multilateral Environmental Agreements
- Promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, and climate change
- This report recognises the potential of, and stresses the need for, synergy in the implementation of activities that link biodiversity conservation, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, and land degradation. It assesses the potential consequences for biodiversity of particular adaptation activities under the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides methodological considerations when implementing these activities, and highlights research and knowledge gaps
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What are developing countries doing to regulate biosafety?
- ( K. Garforth;S. Manga;C. Frison / Centre for International Sustainable Development Law , 2008)
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This scoping study examines the current context for biosafety and how this has been applied in the development of new national biosafety regulatory regimes. The field of biosafety, which arose...
How can the "bushmeat crisis" be resolved?
- ( R. Nasi;D. Brown;D. Wilkie / Convention on Biological Diversity , 2008)
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This paper addresses the hunting of tropical forest wildlife for food (known as “bushmeat”, “wildmeat” and/or “gamemeat”). It argues that this is an issue of con...
- Assessing the potential of carbon sequestration services
- ( W. Brinkman / European Tropical Forest Research Network , 2002)
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This newletter contains four short articles discussing the potential for financing carbon sequestration services. The articles particularly focus on this issue in the context of the Kyoto...
- Assessing the goods and services of England’s major terrestrial ecosystems
- ( R. Haines-Young;M. Potschin / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK , 2007)
- This paper reviews the key aspects of the Ecosystem Approach, and in particular, it explores how the approach can be used to identify and assess the goods and services associated with England’s ...
- An overview of current CDM project developments in six Asian countries
- ( Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan , 2008)
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These fact sheets provide information about Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project developments in six Asian countries: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. The sheets in...
- What is Asia’s role in climate change mitigation?
- ( C. Loh;S. Tay;A. Stevenson / Singapore Institute of International Affairs , 2007)
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The global community’s attitudes to climate change have shifted in 2007, with political will to take action on the issue gathering in many countries. Given that many countries in Asia are sti...
- A handbook for negotiating environmental agreements
- ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , 2007)
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More and more, officials from governments all over the world participate in international environmental negotiations, whether in a bilateral, trilateral or multilateral context. This handbook offer...
- How can developing countries be engaged in emissions reductions commitments?
- ( J. Parikh / Integrated Research and Action for Development , 2007)
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New ideas are desperately needed for going beyond the carbon emissions reduction commitment period ending in 2012. But what is the strategy to get the developing countries on board? This 3-page sum...
- On the road to Bali: operationalising the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund
- ( E. Sopoaga;E. Massawa;J. Miguez;D. Lesolle / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2007)
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The Adaptation Fund (AF) was created under the Kyoto Protocol to support adaptation measures on the ground, particularly in very vulnerable countries. It is unique both in the way it is financed an...
- How can community conservation contribute to global targets on environment and development?
- ( L. F. Fosse;P. J. Schei / Nordic Council of Ministers , 2007)
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This is a report from a workshop on the role of local communities and indigenous peoples in the follow-up of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in environment and in development policy and practic...
