This list contains 32 entry(ies).
Mangroves are among the most important ecosystems on the planet. They provide nursery grounds for a wide variety of marine and landbased species, sustain livelihoods of coastal populations, and protection from ocean swell and extreme weather events.
Author(s):
- Flint, Raphaëlle
- Herr, Dorothée
- Vorhies, Francis
- Smith, James Roland
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.
Author(s):
- Nowacek, Douglas P.
- Southall, Brandon Lee
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
This new publication is a valuable tool to help increase the capacity of policy and decision makers to develop gender-responsive climate change policies and strategies that ensure women are engaged at all levels of the decision-making process.
Author(s):
- Aguilar Revelo, Lorena
- Granat, Margaux
- Owren, Cate
Organization(s):
- Global Gender and Climate Alliance
- IUCN Global Gender Office
This policy brief examines the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined Contributions (NDCs) with regard to the inclusion of specific efforts addressing blue carbon ecosystems, namely mangroves, tidal saltmarshes and seagrasses, as climate mit
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- Nature Conservancy, US
This resource material is designed as a generic guide for planning, implementing and reporting an integrated vulnerability assessment (IVA) that targets atoll communities in the Pacific Islands region.
Organization(s):
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), FJ
- Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), Secretariat
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
The value and role of mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrasses for climate change mitigation was established back in 2009 by reports by IUCN and UNEP to focus attention on addressing a critical gap in national carbon accounting and management.
Author(s):
- Herr, Dorothée
- Himes-Cornell, Amber H.
- Laffoley, D.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- GRID-Arendal
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
- UNEP
Author(s):
- Irfanullah, Haseed Md.
- Ullah, Mohammad Rahmat
- Wahed, Md. Ahsanul
The ocean is a major player in the regulation of the world’s climate system. The purpose of the report is to provide information to underpin the outcomes of COP21 and in particular to demonstrate the importance of the role of MPAs in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Author(s):
- Baxter, J. M.
- Laffoley, D.
- Simard, François
Organization(s):
- France, Agence des aires marines protégées
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- Scottish Natural Heritage, UK
This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.
Author(s):
- Nowacek, Douglas P.
- Southall, Brandon Lee
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
This new publication is a valuable tool to help increase the capacity of policy and decision makers to develop gender-responsive climate change policies and strategies that ensure women are engaged at all levels of the decision-making process.
Author(s):
- Aguilar Revelo, Lorena
- Granat, Margaux
- Owren, Cate
Organization(s):
- Global Gender and Climate Alliance
- IUCN Global Gender Office
Author(s):
- Chowdhury, Sayedur Rahman
- Hossain, M. Shahadat
- Sarker, Subrata
- Sharifuzzaman, S.M.
This paper summarizes the business case for private sector applications of net positive impact (NPI). It outlines the opportunities available for businesses that implement best practice biodiversity management by applying NPI in their operations.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
- Nature Conservancy, US
- Rio Tinto, UK
This briefing paper summarizes the main arguments, from a conservation perspective, for operationalizing the concept of net positive impace on biodiversity.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
- Nature Conservancy, US
- Rio Tinto, UK
This new publication is a valuable tool to help increase the capacity of policy and decision makers to develop gender-responsive climate change policies and strategies that ensure women are engaged at all levels of the decision-making process.
Author(s):
- Aguilar Revelo, Lorena
- Granat, Margaux
- Owren, Cate
Organization(s):
- Global Gender and Climate Alliance
- IUCN Global Gender Office
This report was produced by the IUCN Secretariat in response to a direct and specific request from the IUCN Thailand National Committee. It is intended to provide an independent scientific assessment of possible impacts of the proposed Mae Wong Dam and associated mitigation measures.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
This study entailed extensive literature review of linkages between adaptation and mitigation at the global policy level, through analysis of relevant policies and protocols in the context of climate change in general and forest landscape restoration (FLR) in particular.
Author(s):
- Baig, Saima
- Barrow, Edmund G. C.
- Kumar, Chetan
- Rizvi, Ali Raza
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
Leading companies in the primary natural resource sectors are setting more targeted and measureable enviornmental goals, which in regards to biodiversity-related risks, are increasingly framed as "No Net Loss" (NNL) or "Net Positive Impact" (NPI) goals.
Author(s):
- Aiama, Deviah
- Bennun, Leon A.
- Bos, Gerard
- Edwards, Stephen N.
- Krueger, Linda
- Savy, Conrad
- Semroc, Bambi
- Sneary, Martin
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Leading companies in the primary natural resource sectors are setting more targeted and measureable enviornmental goals, which in regards to biodiversity-related risks, are increasingly framed as "No Net Loss" (NNL) or "Net Positive Impact" (NPI) goals.
Author(s):
- Aiama, Deviah
- Bennun, Leon A.
- Bos, Gerard
- Edwards, Stephen N.
- Krueger, Linda
- Savy, Conrad
- Semroc, Bambi
- Sneary, Martin
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
This is the third part of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — Climate Change 2013/2014 — and was prepared by its Working Group III.
Author(s):
- Edenhofer, Ottmar
- Pichs-Madruga, Ramón
- Sokona, Youba
Organization(s):
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
Developed through a literature review and individual consultations with experts and validated through an experts' workshop, this white paper considers the most recent work on the intersection of gender and energy.
Wetlands have been the focus of conservation and restoration efforts for over a century, and governments, international actors (NGOs and academia) and local communities around the world are now increasingly engaging in wetland restoration or avoiding wetland degration activities for climate chang
Author(s):
- Herr, Dorothée
- Howard, Jennifer
- Pidgeon, Emily
- Silvius, Marcel J.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Conservation International
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- UNEP
- Wetlands International
Author(s):
- Kate, Kerry ten
- Pilgrim, John D.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group
Governments, companies, banks and civil society are placing more emphasis on the rigorous application of the mitigation hierarchy to avoid, minimize and compensate for projects' impacts on biodiversity.
Author(s):
- Crowe, Michael
- ten Kate, Karry
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Forest Trends, US
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
The goal of biodiversity offsets -- measurable conservation outcomes resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development after other appropriate prevention and mitigation measures have been taken -- is to achieve no
Author(s):
- Ekstrom, Jonathan M.M.
- Pilgrim, John D.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- The Biodiversity Consultancy
Organization(s):
- IUCN Sri Lanka
- Mangroves for the Future
This document was written to facilitate the preparation of the guidelines that FAO is preparing to assist forest managers to understand, assess and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
This study compares compensation approaches taken with respect to impacts on biological diversity in selected countries from four different continents: Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.
Author(s):
- Darbi, Marianne
- Herberg, Alfred
- Ohlenburg, Holger
- Wende, Wolfgang
Organization(s):
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), DE
Organization(s):
- Holcim
- IUCN, Oficina Regional para Mesoamérica y la Iniciativa Caribe
This document provides background information on the interrelationship between climate change and food security, and ways to deal with the new threat.
Organization(s):
- FAO, Interdepartmental Working Group on Climate Change
