In 2022, the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) convened Member States and key stakeholders from around the world to consider the priority theme of “Achieving gender...
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Nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation
Introduction The need to mitigate climate change, and the role that nature can play in doing so, are recognized under multilateral agreements, including the United Nations Framework Convention on...
Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality
Itzá Castañeda Camey, Laura Sabater, Cate Owren and A. Emmett Boyer Jamie Wen, editor Executive summary Around the world, it is estimated that one in three women and girls will experience...
Bangladesh + 1 more
The Greening of Cox’s Bazar - The Positive Impact of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) distribution among the Refugee and Host communities
Due to joint efforts by UNHCR, IUCN, the Government of Bangladesh and partners, the re-greening of the refugee hosting areas of Cox’s Bazar is becoming a reality. A widely reported environmental...
World + 3 more
Gender and environment statistics: unlocking information for action and measuring the SDGs
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,...
Adopting nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction in Latin America
Key messages: Nature-based solutions provide an opportunity to better integrate the agendas of climate action, disaster risk reduction and biodiversity conservation into a coherent and holistic...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Senegal
Summary Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Under the...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Burkina Faso
Summary Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Under the...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: Strengthening the evidence and informing policy research results from the governance for ecosystem-based adaptation: transforming evidence into change project, El Salvador
Hannah Reid, Marta Pérez de Madrid and Orsibal Ramírez Summary Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy - Research results from the Mountain EbA Project, Nepal
Hannah Reid and Anu Adhikari Summary Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy - Research results from the Supporting Counties in Kenya to Mainstream Climate Change in Development and Access Climate Finance project, Kenya
Hannah Reid and Victor Orindi Introduction The global climate is changing rapidly, and as nations and the international and bilateral organisations and processes that support them plan how best to...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy - Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Chile
Hannah Reid and Karen Podvin Summary Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects...
World + 6 more
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities: Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) is a global initiative implemented from 2012 to 2017 to promote the use of ecosystem-based approaches and protect...
World + 3 more
Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis
Author: Ann Moey, Head of Communications, IUCN Asia with contribution from Anushae Parakh, Programme Assistant for Mangroves for the Future Near the Sundarbans, home to the largest mangrove forest in...
Collaboration for Resilience: How Collaboration among Business, Government and NGOs could be the Key to Living with Turbulence and Change in the 21st Century
This publication discusses several cases of collaborations between various stakeholders to achieve resilience to disaster risk. In fact it explains how collaboration among business, government and...
Vulnerability and impacts assessment for adaptation planning in Panchase mountain ecological region, Nepal
This report presents tools and methods of a vulnerability and impacts assessment (VIA) of both climatic and non-climatic changes on ecosystem services and community livelihoods in the Panchase...
World + 11 more
Protected areas as tools for disaster risk reduction: a handbook for practitioners
Advice for disaster risk reduction specialists and protected area managers on how best to use protected area systems as effective buffers, to prevent natural hazards from developing into unnatural...
Tropical Cyclone Pam and the importance of healthy ecosystems
The South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, a state member of IUCN, confronted the utter devastation of category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam which tore through the islands a few weeks ago leaving behind...
Central African Republic: Natural Resources (as of 02 May 2014)
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Kenya + 2 more
Opportunities to promote integrated planning in the drylands of Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, February, 2013
Introduction Ill-advised, uncoordinated and badly planned development interventions have contributed to the continuing poverty and food insecurity in drylands. Imposed technology-based interventions...