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The purpose of this knowledge base is to facilitate access to key CBD resources. This initial version has been created thanks to the support of Spain and is undergoing further development.
Meeting Document
#93928
2013-05-24

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Environmental and Ecosystem Accounting: Water Accounting

Meeting Document
#93926
2013-05-24

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Environmental and Ecosystem Accounting: Biomass/Carbon Accounting

Meeting Document
#93927
2013-05-24

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Ecosystem Capital Accounts: Principles and Framework

Meeting Document
#93925
2013-05-24

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Environmental and Ecosystem Accounting: Systems & Species Biodiversity Change Accounting

News Headlines
#93905
2013-05-24

White Tiger's Coat Linked To Pigment Gene Variant

The strikingly beautiful, milky coats of white tigers are caused by a single change in a known pigment gene, a new study finds.

News Headlines
#93899
2013-05-24

Namibia: Biodiversity in Action

Last week, Namibia was one of two countries that celebrated Biodiversity Action Day. This year, the celebrations which included tours in the Namib Desert, were held at the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre situated in the Namib Naukluft Park. The theme for this year's National Biodiversity Ac ...

News Headlines
#93900
2013-05-24

Dog Bacteria Bring Potentially Beneficial Biodiversity To Owners' Homes, Study Shows

Your loyal pooch may be bringing a whole world of bacteria into your home — but don't panic. Research suggests that exposure to a wide variety of microbes may be good for us.

News Headlines
#93901
2013-05-24

Soon small plots will be evergreen forests

The state Biodiversity Board’s initiative, Shanthi Sthal, involving creation of man-made forests in private lands, is catching up.

News Headlines
#93902
2013-05-24

Can banks make a profit by investing in the Great Barrier Reef?

Earlier this month, Australia’s Big Four banks copped a serve over their support of the coal and gas extraction industries, focusing attention on the ways large banks' investment decisions can put the future of the Great Barrier Reef at risk.

News Headlines
#93903
2013-05-24

Linking Environmental Agreements to National Development

Officials of the Department of the Environment are participating in a workshop in attempt to establish the linkages between international environmental agreements and Belize’s national development agenda.

News Headlines
#93904
2013-05-24

The ecosystem approach: what it is and why we need it

Late in 2011, a team of 14 scientists published a groundbreaking paper in the prestigious journal Science. The paper, entitled Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion – One-Third for the Birds provided convincing evidence that seabirds begin to suffer when the food available in the ocea ...

News Headlines
#93906
2013-05-24

Marine forecasting on the horizon for Indian Ocean Rim.

Nearly all of the member countries of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) will attend the week-long workshop to further cooperation and understanding on international ocean forecasting capabilities and needs in the Indian Ocean.

News Headlines
#93907
2013-05-24

Royal family squeeze out climate change in US media coverage

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, made one of his strongest speeches yet on the dangers of a warming planet when he warned this month that climate change is "the greatest risk we have ever faced". Action must be taken now, the Prince said, because the risk of doing nothing is "too great."

News Headlines
#93908
2013-05-24

Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come?

In early 2012 once-in-a-century floods submerged swaths of Great Britain and Ireland, causing some $1.52 billion in damages. Then in June record-high temperatures in Russia sparked wildfires that consumed 74 million acres of pristine Siberian taiga.

News Headlines
#93909
2013-05-24

Rwanda: Joint Efforts Needed to Mitigate Climate Change

Combating climate change effects should be integrated into every ministerial agenda and not left to the Ministry of Natural Resources (Minirena) alone, the Natural Resources minister has said.

News Headlines
#93910
2013-05-24

Media Fails to Report Big Oil Funding Ties to Climate Change Contrarians

Label this one under the category of the news that’s not too surprising, but somewhat depressing nonetheless. In an effort to provide “fair and balanced” coverage on climate change, the mainstream press and media “routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the ...

News Headlines
#93911
2013-05-24

Climate change in the Congo Basin will be different from the rest of Africa, forecasts show

New climate projections for the Congo Basin have renewed the call for informed and collaborative responses to climate change in Central Africa

News Headlines
#93912
2013-05-24

Disaster risk must be part of new development goals - global forum

GENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Work on reducing the risk of disasters cannot be separated from efforts to tackle climate change and to move towards more sustainable development, an international conference on disaster risk reduction agreed this week.

News Headlines
#93913
2013-05-24

Money for people or animals?

Does giving to animal causes take funds away from humans in desperate need?

News Headlines
#93914
2013-05-24

Determining How Nature’s Benefits Link To Human Well-being

What people take from nature – water, food, timber, inspiration, relaxation – are so abundant, it seems self-evident. Until you try to quantitatively understand how and to what extent they contribute to humans.

News Headlines
#93915
2013-05-24

Africa: State of Indigenous Peoples in SADC

Following his recent visit to Namibia, members of the African caucus to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) met with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Dr James Anaya, to brief him on the issues affecting the San, Khoi, Batwa and Babuti indigenous peo ...

News Headlines
#93916
2013-05-24

Save water today for future generation: Hamal

Rajouri/Jammu,May 23 (Scoop News) –Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University’s Centre for Biodiversity Studies (CBS) celebrated International Day for Biological Diversity which has been declared by the United Nations and celebrated all over the world for the promotion of biodiversity issues.

News Headlines
#93920
2013-05-24

Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected?

LONDON – Several leading authorities on climate change have given a guarded welcome to research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected.

News Headlines
#93922
2013-05-24

White tiger's coat down to one change in a gene

Chinese scientists have acquired new insights into how white tigers get their colouration.

News Headlines
#93923
2013-05-24

China reports rise in humans encountering wild Siberian tigers

Villagers in rural Hunchun have mixed feelings about initiative's initial success in boosting population of endangered big cat

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