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#1141322017-08-18
Biodiverseedy: Sewing Connections for Living Seeds
BiodiverSEEDy is a small international project that aims to reconnect seeds to the cultures that have passed them down through the generations. The work of thousands of years could be lost in just a few decades if the current trend towards monocultural cultivation, genetic modification and priva ...
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#1141332017-08-18
Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions
A new study by researchers from the National University of Singapore maps tropics where deforestation have the most and the least gains, and aims to guide policymakers to realise whether their deforestation strategies make economic sense.
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#1141342017-08-18
Measuring global biodiversity change
A new article shows how Essential Biodiversity Variables can be produced to measure biodiversity change at a global scale.
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#1141352017-08-18
TN deploying artificial reefs to save sinking islands
Sinking islands may become a reality with sea level rise and climate change in decades to come. Tamil Nadu has hit upon a novel idea to protect such islands on its coast – deployment of artificial reefs near vulnerable islands.
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#1141362017-08-18
We have to bury gigatons of carbon to slow climate change. We’re not even close to ready.
The world’s nations have agreed, almost unanimously, to try to limit the rise of global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius or less over preindustrial levels. Is that still possible? Climate campaigners, scientists, and politicians frequently insist it is. All we need, they say, is politic ...
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#1141372017-08-18
We saved the whale. The same vision can save the planet
Virtually all governments know that climate change is happening, and polls show most people do too – with those living in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa particularly worried. The question is not whether global warming is happening, but what we are going to do about it. There are, and need ...
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#1141382017-08-18
Kuwait's inferno: how will the world's hottest city survive climate change?
For years, Kuwait’s climate has been steadily heating up. In the summer months, the Gulf state now frequently touches 50C, and was last year awarded the grim prize of being the hottest place on earth, when temperatures reached a staggering high of 54C.
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#1141392017-08-18
Curbing climate change—why it's so hard to act in time
This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland's accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation and currently frozen state, Greenland has the potential to cause large and rapid increases to se ...
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#1141402017-08-18
Greenland: how rapid climate change on world’s largest island will affect us all
The largest wildfire ever recorded in Greenland was recently spotted close to the west coast town of Sisimiut, not far from Disko Island where I research retreating glaciers. The fire has captured public and scientific interest not just because its size and location came as a surprise, but also ...
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#1141412017-08-18
Elephants Need Protecting. Lifting The Ivory Ban Is No Solution
We’re told we are in the ‘anthropocene’ era, the era of human domination. One of the features of this era is the so-called ‘sixth extinction’. In plain language, many of the world’s species are disappearing as a result of human activities. The current rate of species extinction may be 1,000 tim ...
Meeting Document
#1141312017-08-17
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UNESCO-IOC—Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach Towards Ecosystem-Based Management
Meeting Document
#1141292017-08-17
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SOI Action Plan 2015-2020
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#1141302017-08-17
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MPA Agency Partnership—Marine Protected Areas Agencies: A Practical Guide
Meeting Document
#1141272017-08-17
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Sustainable Ocean Initiative brochure
Meeting Document
#1141282017-08-17
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Website for the Sustainable Ocean Initiative
Meeting Document
#1141252017-08-17
UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/10
Identifying Specific Elements for Integrating the Traditional, Scientific, Technical and Technological Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities, and Social and Cultural Criteria and Other Aspects for the Application of Scientific Criteria for Identification of Ecologically or Biologically S ...
Meeting Document
#1141262017-08-17
UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/INF/23
Marine Spatial Planning in Practice—Transitioning from Planning to Implementation
Meeting Document
#1141242017-08-17
UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/9
Training manual on the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) in the open- ocean waters and deep-sea habitats
Meeting Document
#1141222017-08-17
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UNEP-GPA--EBM-markers for assessing progress
Meeting Document
#1141232017-08-17
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FAO: Putting into practice the ecosystem approach to fisheries
Meeting Document
#1141212017-08-17
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Using Scientific Information Related to Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) to Implement Marine Spatial Planning and Ecosystem Based Management
Meeting Document
#1141192017-08-17
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One ocean, many worlds of life (CBD booklet for 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity - Marine Biodiversity)
Meeting Document
#1141202017-08-17
UNEP/CBD/SOI/WS/2016/2/MCBEM/2014/4/2
Report of the Expert Workshop to Provide Consolidated Practical Guidance and A Toolkit for Marine Spatial Planning
Meeting Document
#1141172017-08-17
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FAO: Guidelines on Marine Protected Areas and Fisherie
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#1141182017-08-17
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FAO: Geographic Information Systems to support the ecosystem approach to fisheries
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