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The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions cooperate to protect human health and the environment from the negative effects of hazardous pollutants. This Environment and Gender Information (EGI) platform analysis explores how women are represented as delegates to the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), members and observers of Conventions’ Subsidiary Bodies, and national focal points.

For the past two decades, governments have established new international mandates ensuring that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to environmental decision-making and sustainable development. However, the lack of a mechanism to monitor and measure government progress has contributed to little or no implementation of these mandates. The EGI provides the first quantitative data on governments’ performance translating the gender and environment mandates in the three Rio Conventions and CEDAW into national policy and planning.

El documento ofrece un resumen sobre el marco legal e institucional para el desarrollo de mecanismos de distribución de beneficios REDD+. Asimismo presenta lecciones aprendidas, retos y recomendaciones para el diseño de estos mecanismos en el contexto peruano. Las lecciones, retos y recomendaciones fueron recopilados durante el diálogo multi-actores sobre Distribución de Beneficios REDD+ que realizó El Diálogo Forestal (TFD por sus siglas en inglés) y la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN) en Perú en marzo de 2014.

The document presents a summary of the legal and institutional framework necessary for the development of REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms. Furthermore, it introduces lessons learned, challenges, and recommendations for the design of such mechanisms in a Peruvian context. These lessons, challenges and recommendations were compiled during the multi-stakeholder REDD+ Benefit Sharing Dialogue, coordinated by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in Peru in March 2014.

The report on the environment of Andalusia is the most consolidated annual environmental information resource in our Autonomous Community, constituting as well an important reference within Spain and the European countries. This report summary presents the main elements of the original document, adapting them to a fast and easy reading, in order to favour the access and distribution of the environmental information generated in Andalusia.