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June 2020

The Pollination Services of Forests

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This publication highlights the importance, at the forest and landscape scales, to monitor pollinator diversity and abundance over time, to employ adaptive management practices and promote a mosaic of diverse habitats, with key components on which pollinators depend, and have a multi-sectoral approach, with the involvement of farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, local communities, forest managers, beekeepers and other land custodians and stakeholders.
October 2014

Assessing Habitat Risk from Human Activities to Inform Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning: A Demonstration in Belize

This study introduces an approach for assessing the combined risk to marine habitats from multiple human activities, and applies it to coral reefs, mangrove forests, and seagrass beds in Belize to inform the design of the country’s first Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Plan.
September 2015

Living Blue Planet Report: Species, Habitats and Human Well-being

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
Living Blue Planet Report: Species, Habitats and Human Well-being shows that populations have been reduced on average by half globally in the last four decades, with some fish declining by close to 75 percent. The latest findings spell trouble for all nations, especially people in the developing world.
21 January 2021

New Technologies, Data and Markets to Accelerate Improvements in Forest Carbon Credits

On 21 Jan 2021, at 19:00 -20:00 CET, GreenBiz is hosting an online event New Technologies, Data and Markets to Accelerate Improvements in Forest Carbon Credits.
October 2014

Ambiguous involvement: civil-society actors in forest carbon offsets: the case of the climate community and biodiversity standards (CCB)

Handbook of the Climate Change Movement (Routledge)

Long before the Kyoto Protocol was signed, a number of companies and NGOs started to invest voluntarily in forest carbon offsets thereby creating a voluntary carbon market.

21 March 2019
Online

CMCC-EFI Webinar - Forests: Solutions and perspectives to fight climate change

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), European Forest Institute (EFI)
On 21 March 2019 (3:00 PM CET), Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and European Forest Institute (EFI) are holding a webinar on "Forests: Solutions and perspectives to fight climate change."
November 2018

Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Forests play an important role in producing and regulating freshwater flows, and forested watersheds are essential for sustaining freshwater supply. Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services assesses the governance, design and funding sources of various payments for watershed services (PWS) schemes, and promotes the understanding of a wide range of values related to watershed services of forests and its co-benefits, such as carbon mitigation.
June 2020

Myanmar Country Forest Note

World Bank Group
This Country Forest Note (CFN) summarizes the status of Myanmar’s forests and the investments and policies relevant to the forest sector. It aims to inform a strategic, programmatic approach for the management of forests, built on an understanding of the cross-sectoral challenges that the sector faces.
11 May 2018
Research

Rethinking International Environmental Agreements

Edward B. Barbier
It is time to rethink the global approach to saving the world’s remaining biodiversity and habitats. Edward B. Barbier proposes creating a new Global Agreement on Biodiversity (GAB) modeled after the 2015 Paris Climate Change Accord.
6 February 2019
Online

Valuing Nature Webinar - Natural Capital Trade-offs in Afforested Peatlands

Valuing Nature
On 6 February 2019 (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CET) Valuing Nature is hosting a webinar on "Natural Capital Trade-offs in Afforested Peatlands"

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