Consultants' reports

This report presents a study and account of the adoption of the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Opportunity Assessment for Rwanda (the ‘ROAM’ assessment) recommendations by the Government of Rwanda (GoR) in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). It has been prepared for IUCN on behalf of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) KNOWFOR programme using an episode study approach.

Este documento de discusión intenta descifrar por qué el Patrimonio Mundial juega un papel relativamente marginal en el actual debate sobre la conservación de la naturaleza en América Latina y el Caribe y qué se puede hacer para promocionar un papel más significativo. La suposición subyacente es la convicción compartarget_ida por muchos colegas en la región, de que un gran parte del potencial del Patrimonio Mundial natural está aún por realizarse.

This discussion paper attempts to find out why World Heritage plays a relatively marginal role only in the current nature conservation debate in Latin America and the Caribbean and what can be done to promote a more meaningful role. The underlying assumption is the conviction shared by many colleagues in the region that much of the potential of natural World Heritage remains to be realized.

This short independent study focuses on the relationship between the extractive industries and natural World Heritage properties. It was commissioned through IUCN in conjunction with the World Heritage Centre, as well as the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and Shell; the latter two funded the exercise.

KEITI estimates total GHG emissions generated for the duration of the IUCN COngress was 6,847 tons CO2 eq. Emissions from flights by delegates were 4,811 tons CO2eq which accounted for 70.3% of the total emissions associated with the event.