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Research Insights on Climate and Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014This book presents seven research papers and a note drawing on the final technical reports of eight projects which support knowledge generation and dissemination on the rivers of the greater Himalayas. These are preceded by a synthesis of the key findings of the research papers.OrganisationEnvironment Support Group (ESG)
Environment Support Group works with a variety of environmental and social justice initiatives across India and the world.OrganisationSouthern African Resource Watch (SARW)
Advocacy and research organisation, aiming to monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and beneficiation of natural resources in Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what exDocumentPakistan’s annual report to the commission on sustainable development national implementation of Agenda 21
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993Pakistan had formulated its own "Agenda 21" well before the Rio Conference. Pakistan's Agenda 21 is the National Conservation Strategy (NCS), which was approved by the Government of Pakistan (GOP) on March 1, 1992. All reports regarding strategies, policies and programmes for sustainable development are to be drawn up on the basis of the NCS.DocumentA programme for the implementation of the obligations of the convention on biological diversity
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1993In June 1992, Pakistan joined other countries in signing the Convention On Biological Diversity during the Rio Summit. The Convention places responsibility on the signatories by providing a framework aimed at conserving and sustaining global biodiversity. This paper summarises the framework of the convention under the following broad categories:DocumentManaging for resilience: framing an integrated landscape approach for overcoming chronic food insecurity
2014This paper presents an integrated landscape and resilience management framework to tackle chronic food insecurity and vulnerable livelihoods.DocumentThe value of forest ecosystem services to developing economies
Center for Global Development, USA, 2014This paper assesses potential co-benefits for residents of developing countries of protecting forest ecosystems in order to mitigate climate change.DocumentImplementation of convention on biological diversity in Pakistan
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998Pakistan, covering a land area of 803,940 sq. km, is rich in biodiversity. It has been divided into 10 major ecological zones and contains up to 5,700 species of plants, 188 of mammals, 666 of birds, 174 of reptiles, 125 of freshwater and 400 of marine fish, and insects/invertebrates of 20,000.DocumentHigh level segment of the 6th session of the commission on sustainable development
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was set up following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. The CSD meets annually in New York. The Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) in the United Nations Headquarters in New York serves as the secretariat for the CSD. The CDocumentREDD+ in India: managing carbon storage and biodiversity safeguarding in national forest politics?
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014The report analyses India's approach towards the mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhance-ment of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), with particular attention to India's handling of both carbon and biodiversity matters.Pages