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UNDP, UNEP, World Bank and World Resources Institute, 2008-07-01 - World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the Poor
UNDP, UNEP, World Bank and World Resources Institute, 277 pages
Expanding nature-based enterprises can increase income for the world's rural poor. This approach, as outlined in the latest World Resources Report 2008, can also develop the rural poor's resilience to social and environmental threats such as climate change.
World Resources Report 2008 continues the ...
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Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Harvard Medical School, 2008-04-24 - Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Oxford University Press, 527 pages
The Earth's biodiversity—the rich variety of life on our planet—is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, this OUP publication is the first to examine ...
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Leida Mercado, 2007-11-02 - Identification of Practical Issues Linked to the Development of Markets for Environmental Services: Experiences and lessons learned from Latin America
UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean, 15 pages
The initiative on the “identification of practical issues linked to the development of payment for environmental services: lessons from the Latin American region” seeks to strengthen UNDP’s knowledge base, as well as to promote and facilitate South-South cooperation by sharing lessons learnt from field ...
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UNDP-GEF, 2007-07 - INFORMATION KIT FOR COUNTRIES: Supporting Country Action on the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
UNDP-GEF, 84 pages
Provides information for eligible countries on the application process to receive funding from the GEF to help carry out implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on protected areas. The kit also includes the eligibility criteria, information on evaluation and monitoring, together with templates for ...
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Heather Gibb, The North-South Institute, 2007-04-31 - Gender Dimensions of Intellectual Property and Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative, UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo, 44 pages
Strong patent protection under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) has particular implications for protection and widespread use of traditional medicinal knowledge, which remains one of the most common, affordable forms of healthcare in developing countries in ...
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Darshani de Silva, 2007-02 - Wetlands! Lost goods and services... can we bring them back?
UNDP Sri Lanka, 19 pages
This short publication on how to reduce the pressures on wetlands in Sri Lanka looks at the situation in the country, UNDP's contributions and what more needs to be done.
Sri Lanka’s rich wetland diversity includes riparian wetlands and flood plains, tanks, inland and coastal marshland, salterns, ...
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Frank Pinto, 2006-03-20 - UNDP’s Statement to the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
UNDP, 2 pages
Delivered by Frank Pinto, UNDP GEF Executive Coordinator, and Deputy Leader, Energy and Environment Practice, UNDP
Honorable President of the COP, Minister of Environment of Brazil, Marina Silva,
Honorable Governor of Parana, Roberto Requiao,
Honorable Mayor of Curitiba, Carlos Alberto Richa,
Honorable ...
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GEF Small Grants Programme and UNDP Equator Initiative, 2006-03 - Community Action to Conserve Biodiversity: Linking Biodiversity Conservation with Poverty Reduction
GEF Small Grants Programme and UNDP Equator Initiative, 76 pages
In this report, launched in March 2006 at the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) in Brazil, the SGP and the Equator Initiative collaboratively present thirty case studies from their portfolio to document and draw preliminary lessons from ...
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| Posted: 2006-07-18 |
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Paul R. Epstein and Evan Mills, Eds., 2005-11-01 - Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
The Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School. With support from: UNDP and Swiss Re, 139 pages
In 2003, UNDP joined forces with the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and Swiss Re to engage in a multi-stakeholder scenario building exercise: Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions. This international, multidisciplinary project was ...
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| Posted: 2005-11-25 |
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Tzen Wong, Terence Hay-Edie, Tehmina Akhtar and Charles McNeill, 2005-10 - PRACTICE NOTE: Traditional Knowledge, Access to Genetic Resources, and Benefit-Sharing (TK&ABS)
UNDP BDP Environment and Energy Group, 43 pages
UNDP derives its mandate to work on issues relating to the preservation of traditional knowledge and the sustainable livelihoods of knowledge holders from the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Given its critical role in environment and energy ...
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