Unofficial reports

Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panels (ISTAPs) have been established to help address a range of controversial conservation and development issues that have emerged with growing frequency and complexity at national and global levels.

The objective of this publication is to assess how well existing interventions in China that incorporate the use and management of ecosystems and ecosystem services align with best practice norms of Nature-based  Solutions (NbS). This is explored through ten case studies of established interventions and retroactively assessing how well they align with the Nature-based Solutions Global Standard.

This report first reviews the available methods, tools and approaches that have been designed to assess and document the social impacts of conservation interventions, and second, offers guidance for practitioners on good practice for designing studies and facilitating processes for such assessments. The focus of this report is on tools that can be used for assessing ex post impacts – i.e.

Ecosystem restoration has been recognized as an effective means of mitigating climate change, reversing biodiversity and soil loss at the same time. The Restoration Barometer, originally created to allow countries to report their progress under the Bonn Challenge, provides a tool that adapts to the availability of information and diverse restoration approaches implemented around the world. This report presents Costa Rica’s progress in this area.

La restauración de ecosistemas ha sido reconocida como un medio efectivo para mitigar al cambio climático, revertir la perdida de  biodiversidad y de suelo al mismo tiempo. El barómetro de la restauración, originalmente creado para permitir a los países reportar sus avances en el marco del Desafío de Bonn, provee una herramienta que se adapta a la disponibilidad de información y diversos enfoques  de restauración implementado a lo largo y ancho del mundo.