This booklet is part of a series of compilations assembling PANORAMA solution case studies on a defined topic. “Solutions in Focus” zooms in on a topic of interest covered by PANORAMA, allowing to explore common elements and shared learnings across success stories.
Organization(s):
Blue Solutions
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
PANORAMA is a partnership initiative to facilitate learning from success in conservation. It promotes examples of inspiring solutions that showcase how nature conservation can benefit society.
Organization(s):
Blue Solutions
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
PANORAMA is a partnership initiative to facilitate learning from success in conservation. It promotes examples of inspiring solutions that showcase how nature conservation can benefit society.
Organization(s):
Blue Solutions
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Cette publication est un résultat du troisième Forum régional pour les océans, les côtes et le bien-être humain en Afrique de Blue Solutions qui s’est tenu au printemps 2016. Elle compile 32 solutions bleues de l’Afrique dont la plupart ont été présentées pendant l’événement.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
This publication is a result of Blue Solutions’ second Regional Forum on Solutions for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-being in Latin America and the Wider Caribbean Region. This four-day workshop was held in Cancún, Mexico in April 2015.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
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.
Our oceans and coasts are the origin of life on earth, an important food source, and crucial for the global ecological equilibrium, yet despite their global significance, marine and coastal ecosystems face a wide array of threats.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
This publication is a result of the Blue Solutions’ third Regional Forum for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-Being in Africa held in spring 2016. It compiles 32 blue solutions from Africa, most of which were presented during the event.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
Our oceans and coasts are the origin of life on earth, an important food source, and crucial for the global ecological equilibrium, yet despite their global significance, marine and coastal ecosystems face a wide array of threats.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
Our oceans and coasts are the origin of life on earth, an important food source, and crucial for the global ecological equilibrium, yet despite their global significance, marine and coastal ecosystems face a wide array of threats.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
This report is a contribution to the UN's International Year of Biodiversity and is a complement to the UNEP-hosted Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) which is bringing visibility to the wealth of the world's natural capital.
The African elephant, the largest remaining land mammal on the planet, is facing the greatest crisis in decades. Reports of mass elephant killings in the media vividly illustrate the situation across many African elephant range states.
Author(s):
Blanc, Julian J.
De Meulenaer, T.
Formo, Rannveig K.
Milliken, Tom
Nellemann, C. (Christian)
Skinner, Diane
Organization(s):
IUCN
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), African Elephant Specialist Group
Over the last few years, two key environmental issues, closely related, have been on the top of the environmental agenda: climate change and deforestation. Forest is a subject for these two concerns.
Out of all the biological carbon (or green carbon) captured in the world, over half is captured by marine living organisms --- hence it is called "blue carbon".
Author(s):
Nellemann, C. (Christian)
Corcoran, Emily
Duarte, Carlos M.
Valdes, Luis
DeYoung, Cassandra
Fonseca, Luciano
Grimsditch, Gabriel D.
Organization(s):
UNEP
FAO
UNESCO
IUCN
Spain, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
