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The Pan-European Ecological Network and protected areas : a major instrument for implementing the CBD in Europe

The Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN) provides the governments of the countries of the Pan-European Region with a political framework for action at all levels – local, regional, national and international – enabling them to provide sustainable socio-economic development in their respective ...

Understanding the Relationship Between PAs and Poverty: New Evidence on the Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods

A number of different agencies are currently involved in assessments of the benefits and costs of Protected Areas to communities living in and around these areas using a range of newly developed methodologies. This effort addresses the concern that evidence of the positive and negative impacts o ...

Tourism and protected areas

Presentation of Case studies from tourism and sustainable financing in World Heritage sites in Europe and Latin America

Contributing to the implementation the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas at the sub-national level: the experience of the Lazio Region

Presentation of the activities carried out by the Regional Agency for Parks of the Lazio Region (Italy) to support the establishment of a comprehensive system of Protected Areas, including the identification of under-represented ecosystems and irreplaceable areas, the establishment of a monitori ...

Issue-Based Module on Protected Areas TEMATEA: An update on the Issue-Based Modules and introduction of the new module on protected areas - making commitments for Parties from biodiversity-related Conventions easily accessible

Introduction to TEMATEA, the UNEP/IUCN project on issue-based modules on the coherent implementation of biodiversity relevant Conventions and information about related capacity building activities. Presentation of the new module on protected areas.

La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring)

Monitoring vegetation in Italian protected areas: this is the aim of the project La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring), supported by and with the patronage of the Italian Ministry for Environment and Safeguarding of Territory and Sea, and carried out by Federparchi, Legambiente and Coldiretti ...

LAUNCHING OF THE BOOK ON " BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTH

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity Book Launch

The Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate, and while some of the ramifications of this loss have been explored in other works, Sustaining Life is the first to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. At this side event, j ...

ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A REPORT CARD

Presentation of the results of a trial run of a report card developed by WWF’s Protected Areas for a Living Planet programme. The card aims to give a rapid assessment of national implementation of the programme of work on protected areas. The results will be presented to participating countries ...

Financing Protected Areas

This side event will illustrate the trends in financing for protected areas including current needs and gaps. It will also explore opportunities and barriers to securing a diversified set of funding, including financial mechanisms based on extraction of natural resources (royalties, severance fe ...