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10 November 2020

#GGKPwebinar - SDGs Erosion: How terrestrial natural capital will save the 2030 Agenda

Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP), Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
In this #GGKPwebinar, experts discuss how can we measure national knowledge and capacity gaps around the sustainable management of terrestrial resources — soil, forests, and freshwater — that underpin economies.
June 2019

Sand and Sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance 2019 of global sand resources

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report aims to be the starting point from which a productive global conversation on sand extraction can begin.
22 September 2017

Managing Natural Resources for the Benefit of All

Ashok Khosla

To achieve a sustainable future, the world clearly has two priorities that must come before all others. The first is to ensure that all citizens have access to the means of satisfying their basic needs.

January 2019

Global Resources Outlook 2019

International Resource Panel (IRP), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
This paper Global Resources Outlook 2019 presents the story of natural resources as they move through our economies and societies. It is a story of relentless demand and of unsustainable patterns of industrialization and development.
March 2017

Wastewater: The Untapped Resource

United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Most human activities that use water produce wastewater. As the overall demand for water grows, the quantity of wastewater produced and its overall pollution load are continuously increasing worldwide.

Planning Management for Ecosystem Services: An Operations Manual

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC), Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

This Operations Manual Planning Management for Ecosystem Services provides a practical method for including ecosystem management in sustainable development planning and implementation at the site and landscape levels and present’s six steps for planning management for ecosystem services.

January 2016

Pilot Ecosystem Account for Southern Palawan

Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES), World Bank Group, Southern Palawan Technical Working Group
This technical report, Pilot Ecosystem Account for Southern Palawan, explores the specific challenges confronting natural resource management in Southern Palawan and presents the key findings of the ecosystem accounts, which were developed at different scales (depending on data availability), including the Pulot watershed and the municipalty of Sofroñio Española.
January 2015

Understanding and Valuing Marine Ecosystem Services in the Northern Mozambique Channel

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Global Canopy
This case study compiles and synthesises data on marine ecosystem services to help identify the key ecosystem values of the Northern Mozambique Channel (NMC) region, one of the world’s outstanding terrestrial and marine biodiversity areas and a biological reservoir for the entire coastal area of East Africa.

Bahamas National Policy for the Adaptation to Climate Change

Organisation: 
Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission
Country: 
Bahamas
Recognizing the alarming risks of climate change the Government of the Bahamas drew up the National Policy for the Adaptation to Climate Change to asses the degree of country's vulnerability to the projected impacts of climate change by sectors and the country's ability to adapt to the changing climate.
May 2016

Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications

International Resource Panel (IRP), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
This report Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications has been produced by the UNEP’s International Resource Panel in response to a request by leaders of the G7 nations in the context of efforts to promote resource efficiency as a core element of sustainable development.

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