Every Job is a Nature Job - Social Engagement
This brief sets out specific actions for professionals in social engagement on how to integrate nature into their decision-making.
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8 Apr 2026
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Enabling transformative change for biodiversity in Europe: From values to action
Enabling Transformative Change for Biodiversity in Europe: From Values to Action. This policy note synthesises findings from the Horizon Europe PLANET4B project to show how transformative change for biodiversity can be achieved through implementation. Drawing on eleven European case studies, it identifies five enabling conditions—justice and inclusion, learning and reflection, collaboration and coherence, adaptive governance, and agency and leadership. The publication offers practical options for governments, research funders and practitioners delivering the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, highlighting how inclusion, learning and fair governance turn policy commitments into lasting outcomes for people and nature.
Governance and capacityCase studyDOI
2 Mar 2026
The Centre Strategy 2026-2029
Our strategy for 2026-2029 focuses on catalyzing action to achieve the ambitions of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) and its 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityFramework
26 Feb 2026
Finance Plan for the Protected and Conserved Areas of Kazakhstan
The Finance Plan for the Protected and Conserved Areas of Kazakhstan for Protected and Conserved Areas provides a ten-year roadmap (2025–2035) to help close the country's biodiversity finance gap, based on detailed assessments of financial requirements, expenditure patterns, ecological risks and stakeholder priorities. It offers actionable financial solutions, proposed governance enhancements and partnership opportunities to support national and international biodiversity goals.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeProtected and conserved areasReportDOI
11 Feb 2026
Strengthening Coral Reef Restoration Regulatory Frameworks: Guidance for reviewing national regulatory frameworks
This guidance document provides a structured, three-step approach (Collate, Review, Adapt) to help governments assess and improve the regulatory framework governing coral reef restoration. It provides a practical roadmap for aligning national regulations with international commitments, including Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which calls for the restoration of at least 30 per cent of degraded ecosystems by 2030. This document also highlights how coherent regulatory systems can support long-term ecological, social and economic benefits.
Biodiversity policyMarine and coastsForests and restorationGuidanceReviewDOI
23 Jan 2026
Capacity Building Resource Guide for Monitoring Forest Restoration
This guide provides a list of capacity-building materials on key topics relevant to restoration monitoring with a particular focus on forest ecosystems. It brings together existing materials into a concise and user-friendly guide. It is designed to support the strengthening of institutional capacity and community capacity by making resources available that are tailored to the needs of those engaged in forest restoration.
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
19 Jan 2026
Forest Restoration Impact Monitoring Framework
This document sets out the Forest Restoration Impact Monitoring Framework. It provides a structured, practical approach to monitoring the impact of forest restoration activities for those responsible for managing restoration monitoring at national or site level. It is designed to complement and build on input-based measures, such as hectares restored or seedlings planted. The focus on impact ensures that forest restoration monitoring provides evidence of positive change.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataAgriculture and foodFrameworkDOI
18 Dec 2025
Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures - An introduction to Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) and the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT).
Introductory guidance for private sector audiences on other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), emphasizing the importance of OECMs for biodiversity and people, their relevance to nature-related impact disclosure frameworks and standards, and the value of data on OECMs in supporting informed decision-making.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataGuidanceDOI
4 Dec 2025
Private Finance for Biodiversity and Cognitive Biases: Theory of Change for Aligning Financial Actor Behaviour with Global Biodiversity Goals
Global biodiversity loss poses substantial risks to human wellbeing and economic stability and yet human activity has accelerated the decline in biodiversity to rates unprecedented in human history. Reducing the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss requires transforming the global economy. Financial institutions have a fundamental role to play in this transformation. This briefing document provides a Theory of Change outlining activities and outputs that policymakers can support to help generate outcomes that will align private financial flows with global biodiversity goals.
Business and financeBriefingDOI
31 Oct 2025
Mobilising Private Finance for Biodiversity and Climate: Synergies between nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs)
The growing urgency of climate change and biodiversity loss is driving major international commitments to expand and align finance for both agendas, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) target to mobilize USD 200 billion per year for biodiversity by 2030 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) new goal to scale climate finance to USD 300 billion annually by 2035, leveraging up to USD 1.3 trillion. As countries update their national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs), private finance is increasingly recognized as essential for closing funding gaps and delivering integrated, nature-positive and climate-resilient outcomes. This scoping document highlights four key entry points for greater collaboration between governments and financial institutions: carbon markets and nature-based solutions, transition planning, public-private partnerships, and integrated risk management. The document also emphasizes the need for coordinated policy frameworks, such as joint sustainability taxonomies, to enhance efficiency and impact. The recommendations aim to support upcoming global negotiations, particularly the CBD resource mobilization strategy for 2025–2030 and discussions ahead of UNFCCC COP30.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeClimate and carbonReviewFrameworkDOI
30 Oct 2025
Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) Impact Assessment Framework Results
This report details the results of Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) Phase 2 (2022-2024). The assessment methodology is based on the project’s Impact Assessment Framework Methodology.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityFrameworkDOI
29 Oct 2025
Fashion forward: Policy pathways for a biodiversity-positive transformation of the EU fashion sector
This brief outlines how the European Union (EU) can drive a biodiversity-positive transformation of the fashion sector through coherent, fair and forward-looking policy action. Moving beyond carbon and waste reduction, the policy options identified in this brief offer solutions for embedding biodiversity goals in the EU textile and fashion agenda by reorienting production and consumption towards sufficiency, durability and well-being within planetary boundaries.
Climate and carbonGovernance and capacityBriefingDOI
29 Oct 2025
Supporting seed diversity for resilient EU agriculture: A policy perspective
Europe’s agricultural systems face intensifying risks from climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, threatening food security and resilience. Seed diversity is critical to maintaining biodiversity and enabling climate adaptation. Current EU seed regulations can be improved to better support the management and exchange of seeds for conservation purposes in the EU. This brief, developed under the Horizon Europe PLANET4B project, examines how EU and national policies can better support community seed banks, participatory breeding, and informal seed exchange networks that conserve genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
Business and financeClimate and carbonAccess and benefit sharingBriefingDOI
29 Oct 2025
Resilient Trade Beyond Traceability: Strengthening the EU–Brazil Partnership for Nature and People
This brief identifies policy options that can be taken to improve the resilience, equity, and positive biodiversity conservation outcomes of EU trade policy. The brief identifies actions that could improve alignment between EU trade policies and sustainability objectives, moving beyond compliance-based approaches toward partnerships that enhance well-being for people and nature. Key actions include embedding binding provisions on biodiversity, human rights, and equitable livelihoods within trade agreements; ensuring that implementation of the Deforestation-free Products Regulation (EUDR) upholds the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and smallholders; and using EU investment instruments to scale agroecological and socio-bioeconomy value chains that reward sustainable land use.
Business and financeForests and restorationTrade and supply chainsBriefingDOI
29 Oct 2025
Climate change mitigation in European seascapes: opportunities for assessment: a scoping review
This scoping report reviews the available evidence on climate change mitigation potential of European marine and coastal habitats, highlighting gaps in knowledge and the scope for assessment
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReviewDOI
21 Oct 2025
A Review of Global OECM Implementation: Legislation, finance mechanisms and site case studies
A technical report compiling examples of legislation and finance mechanisms being used for OECM implementation and complemented by a selection of OECM site case studies.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityCase studyReview
9 Oct 2025
Co-designing Approaches to Reduce Biodiversity Impacts of Biomass Trade: A CLEVER Innovation Action Pool
The CLEVER Innovation Action Pool documents and characterizes public policies and private sector governance arrangements that can exploit leverage points to improve the sustainability of non-food biomass value chains and trade. It focuses on soy, timber, wood pulp, and fishmeal, in the context of trade from Brazil and Central Africa towards the European Union.
Business and financeForests and restorationTrade and supply chainsReportDOI
28 Sept 2025
Horizon scan of interlinkages between the BBNJ Agreement and selected biodiversity-related conventions
This technical paper explores how the BBNJ Agreement can work in synergy with biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to promote coordinated, effective, and mutually reinforcing action in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Marine and coastsReportDOI
18 Sept 2025
OECMs: An introduction for businesses
Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures, or OECMs, are geographically defined areas where pre-existing management and governance is achieving significant, long-term outcomes for biodiversity, outside of the protected area network. This document introduces OECMs for a business audience, setting out their importance and providing recommendations for businesses to mitigate risks and engage with opportunities associated with OECMs.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityReportDOI
18 Sept 2025
Just and Effective Engagement in Landscape Restoration (Europe): Guidance and Case studies
Focusing on the European context, this guidance provides practical recommendations, illustrated with case studies to support restoration practitioners with fostering inclusive engagement and ensuring that local voices are heard.
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityCase studyGuidanceDOI
9 Sept 2025
Navigating the target setting landscape: Comparison of existing and emerging approaches
This Technical Brief provides an overview of how biodiversity is included in existing and emerging corporate target setting approaches. The four approaches reviewed are the No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact (several guidance documents available), Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), IUCN Measuring Nature-Positive (V1.0 consultation draft), and the guidance provided in the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) LEAP approach.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidanceBriefing
31 Aug 2025
Nature Impact Target Setting for Banks: Pilot PRB Guidance
Led by UNEP FI and the Centre, this discussion paper intends to solicit feedback from banks and relevant civil society bodies on a proposed approach for banks to set impact targets for nature. The approach is built to provide guidance for banks aiming to reduce negative nature-related impacts, thereby, contributing to the vision, ambition, goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (hereafter ‘the Global Biodiversity Framework’). By fostering feedback on: the proposed approach, challenges and limitations to the approach, and proposed solutions to the stated challenges and limitations, this paper aims to support the development of strategies for banks to improve the state of nature. The effort intends to lead to a workable approach that should enable banks to increase their ambition as it relates to their impacts on the state of nature. In addition, through discussion and feedback on the approach, UNEP FI hopes to build a repository of global examples of banks taking action to address their impact on the natural world.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityGuidanceFrameworkDOI
20 Aug 2025
EU Wildlife Trade 2023
This report provides a detailed analysis of the trade data submitted by EU Member States and candidate countries in their annual reports to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) for trade that occurred during 2023.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
19 Aug 2025
Every Job is a Nature Job - Guidance for Sustainability Professionals on Integrating Nature into Every Job
This guidance offers two case studies on the experiences of nature teams seeking to integrate nature considerations across their business. It also draws out recommendations on how to engage leadership and the C-Suite effectively on the topic of nature.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityCase studyGuidanceDOI
30 Jul 2025
Risk management in OECMs - Guidance on OECMs for asset managers and asset owners
This document sets out the unique characteristics of Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), as well as the rich variety of sites which align with the OECM definition. This guidance document details the role of OECMs in achieving global goals to safeguard biodiversity and provides investors with actionable recommendations of how to manage their biodiversity-related risks associated with OECMs.
Protected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
20 Jul 2025
World trade in crocodilian skins 2021-2023
the Centre has produced a series of reports as part of the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS) which provide an overview of global trade in crocodilian skins and other commodities, primarily based on data included in the CITES Trade Database. This report, the thirty-first produced by the Centre for the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS), examines the international trade in crocodilian skins, with a particular focus on the years 2021 to 2023, but also refers to trends since 2014.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
9 Jul 2025
Proyecto Piloto de Mapeo de Sensibilidad Ambiental frente a los Impactos de Hidrocarburos en el Caribe Colombiano
The Pilot Project for Mapping Environmental Sensitivity to Hydrocarbon Impacts in the Colombian Caribbean was launched as a strategic response to growing environmental risks from offshore hydrocarbon activities and maritime transport. Its main goal was to create a technical tool based on the best available scientific and technical data to support planning and response to potential hydrocarbon pollution incidents across coastal and deep-water areas. The project was jointly led by the Centre and Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, with support from the Norwegian Environment Agency, under the Oil for Development program funded by NORAD. To develop the sensitivity maps, the project applied the MESA (Mapping Environmentally Sensitive Assets) methodology—an approach that enables the visual identification of areas most vulnerable to hydrocarbon impacts, integrating ecological and socioeconomic factors. These maps are crucial for strategic planning, informed decision-making, and emergency response. Key Colombian institutions—such as the General Maritime Directorate (DIMAR), National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA), and INVEMAR—provided critical technical inputs that supported the collection, validation, and analysis of spatial data. In total, the project collated spatial data for 44 ecological units, including species, coastal and marine habitats (both shallow and deep), and fishing activity zones, all validated by experts. A series of expert workshops guided the integration of geospatial data and sensitivity criteria, enabling the creation of maps that reflect the relative environmental vulnerability of different zones. An advanced approach (MESA+) was also used to refine spatial integration and improve the accuracy of results. These maps build upon previous work by DIMAR and expand the analysis to deeper waters, incorporating an ecosystem-based perspective. For the first time, environmental sensitivity to hydrocarbon impacts has been mapped for key ecosystems and species that represent the region’s biological richness and support local economies such as fishing and tourism. The results identify highly sensitive areas—including coral reefs, mangroves, and marine protected areas—and highlight priority zones for conservation and risk management.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReportDOI
29 Jun 2025
Mobilizing Finance for Biodiversity: The Private Finance Sector and the Implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
This report examines the role of private finance sector in biodiversity and how governments can help mobilize resources, both to seize biodiversity-related opportunities and to align financial flows to halt biodiversity loss. It puts forward options for both governments and private financial institutions to strengthen private resource mobilization and deepen engagement, with the aim of channelling private finance in support of the Framework. Specifically, the report explores these options in the context of the update, revision, and implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) — the key policy instrument for countries to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Framework at the national level. It also considers the synergies between nature and climate, drawing on lessons from climate finance that are relevant to scaling up private finance for nature.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeClimate and carbonFrameworkDOI
22 Jun 2025
Impact Report 2023-2024
The latest Centre Impact Report celebrates the Centre’s recent achievements with partners in tackling the global nature crisis.
Impact report
16 Jun 2025
Restoration Project Developers’ Playbook on Private Finance (Europe)
The Playbook aims to help restoration project developers understand existing private finance options and assess whether these can be suitable to meet their needs.
Business and financeForests and restorationReportDOI
7 May 2025
Submarine cables and marine biodiversity
Submarine fibre-optic telecommunication cables form the backbone of digital communication infrastructure that provides a foundation for society, connectivity, and commerce. In 2009, the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) and the Centre report “Submarine Cables and the Oceans: Connecting the World” evaluated the impact of submarine cables on the coastal and marine environment. Since the report’s publication, approximately 700,000 additional km of submarine cables (a ~65% increase from 2009) have been installed. The footprint of blue economy sectors such as ports and harbors is also increasing (Carter et al. 2009). In this context, it is important to revisit the question: What impact do cables have on coastal and marine biodiversity and what are the best ways to minimize and mitigate any negative impacts?
Marine and coastsReportDOI
10 Apr 2025
NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Democratic Republic of the Congo
This outlook explores key opportunities that the process of revising and/or updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and their subsequent implementation when relevant, might open for private finance institutions within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also provides an overview of the DR Congo’s wider national policy landscape that could contribute to the global biodiversity agenda.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityOutlookDOI
25 Mar 2025
NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Indonesia
This outlook explores key opportunities that the process of revising and/or updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and their subsequent implementation when relevant, might open for private finance institutions within Indonesia. It also provides an overview of Indonesia’s wider national policy landscape that could contribute to the global biodiversity agenda.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityOutlook
25 Mar 2025
Integration of societal data in spatial analysis to support environmental decision-making
People and nature are deeply interconnected. Effective conservation requires thoughtful planning that integrates geographical, social, and ecological data. This report highlights the importance of socio-economic information in decision-making and explores how to integrate societal and environmental information for spatial analysis.
Spatial planning and dataReportDOI
10 Mar 2025
Every Job is a Nature Job - Business Development
This brief sets out specific actions for business development professionals on how to integrate nature into their decision-making.
Business and financeBriefingDOI
10 Mar 2025
NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Brazil
This outlook explores key opportunities that the process of revising and/or updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and their subsequent implementation when relevant, might open for private finance institutions within Brazil. It also provides an overview of the Brazil’s wider national policy landscape that could contribute to the global biodiversity agenda. The resource is available in both English (EN) and Portuguese (PT) from the drop down list to the right.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityOutlookDOI
21 Feb 2025
NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: United Kingdom
This outlook explores key opportunities that the process of revising and/or updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and their subsequent implementation when relevant, might open for private finance institutions within the United Kingdom (UK). It also provides an overview of the UK’s wider national policy landscape that could contribute to the global biodiversity agenda.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityOutlookDOI
20 Feb 2025
NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Mexico
This outlook explores key opportunities that the process of revising and/or updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), and their subsequent implementation when relevant, might open for private finance institutions within Mexico. It also provides an overview of Mexico’s wider national policy landscape that could contribute to the global biodiversity agenda. The document is available to download in both English (EN) and Spanish (ES) from the dropdown menu to the right.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityOutlookDOI
20 Feb 2025
Renova Pasto: IFACC Case Study
Case study on the success and impact of Renova Pasto, a financial instrument developed under the IFACC initiative.
Business and financeCase studyDOI
13 Feb 2025
Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Sub-Saharan Africa: Overcoming barriers and enhancing collaboration
This report examines the key barriers to sharing biodiversity data within and between public institutions and explores actionable strategies to enhance data flows and improve accessibility. This report is based on feedback from partners under the Norwegian Agency Knowledge Programmes.
Report
12 Feb 2025
Offshore wind energy and migratory species
This technical brief provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the impacts of offshore wind on marine migratory species and suggests future directions to help offshore wind developers better manage these impacts.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeBriefing
20 Nov 2024
Analysis of the European Union and candidate countries’ annual reports to CITES 2022
This report provides a detailed analysis of the trade data submitted by EU Member States and candidate countries in their annual reports to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) for trade that occurred during 2022.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
8 Nov 2024
Risk management in protected areas - Guidance for asset managers and asset owners
This document provides actionable guidance for asset managers and asset owners to take to manage physical and transition risks arising from protected areas. It also provides an introduction to protected areas, to guide investors as to their importance, and their role in global conservation goals.
Protected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityGuidance
9 Oct 2024
Overview of international trade in United States turtle species 2000-2023
Produced for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), this pilot trade status report examines international trade in 63 turtle species native to the United States of America over the past two decades. The report provides an overview of the 52 species with relevant trade data, in order to provide information on the volume of trade, trade routes, and the main terms and sources in trade for each species.
Marine and coastsTrade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
9 Oct 2024
Inclusive Food Systems: Business Approaches to Human Rights and Social Responsibility in Supply Chains
This brief examines the need to effectively address social impacts of agrifood supply chains, recognizing the interconnectedness with environmental concerns, and to adopt a more ambitious human rights-based approach. It underscores the importance of addressing systemic issues beyond immediate supply chain concerns and suggests that opportunities lie in adopting a landscape approach and forging partnerships to effect meaningful change in regions. This draws on the extensive research carried out by the TRADE Hub project and provides information in an action-oriented and solution-focused format for the business audience.
Business and financeTrade and supply chainsAgriculture and foodBriefing
10 Sept 2024
Agri-food Supply Chains and the Business Case for Landscape-level Approaches
The document emphasizes the importance of landscape-level approaches (LLAs) for businesses to achieve sustainable supply chains. LLAs involve multi-stakeholder collaboration within a landscape to achieve environmental and social goals. It presents a strong business case for engaging in LLAs, including supply chain risk mitigation and meeting sustainability expectations. • Building partnerships with diverse stakeholders like companies, NGOs, and communities is key. • Improving local livelihoods, especially for farmers and women, reduces pressure on agricultural frontiers. • Strategies like fair prices, sustainable intensification, and production diversification improve incomes. • Effectively communicating landscape contributions aligns with corporate sustainability targets. • Claims should be backed by commitments, actions, and data, with landscape monitoring enhancing credibility. • Real-life examples across geographies and supply chains illustrate LLAs' adaptability and scalable impact potential.
Business and financeClimate and carbonTrade and supply chainsReport
28 Aug 2024
World trade in crocodilian skins 2020-2022
the Centre has produced a series of reports as part of the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS) which provide an overview of global trade in crocodilian skins and other commodities, primarily based on data included in the CITES Trade Database. This report, the thirtieth produced by the Centre for the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS), examines the international trade in crocodilian skins, with a particular focus on the years 2020 to 2022, but also refers to trends since 2013.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
21 Jul 2024
Remote sensing and how it can be used to fill data gaps in marine and coastal environments. A review with a Mozambique case study
This technical report aims to provide guidance to partner countries of the Norwegian Knowledge Programmes on understanding the principles of the Remote Sensing techniques and how it can be used to fill data gaps in marine and coastal environments. It provides an overview of the technology including available sensors and processing techniques as well specific examples for OfD countries and more specifically for Mozambique. In addition, it summarises relevant global, open source, marine and coastal datasets as well data portal to help identify potential knowledge and data gaps.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityCase studyGuidance
7 Jun 2024
Sharing biodiversity data: why the public sector should share biodiversity information and the challenges that it faces
This document highlights why biodiversity information is important for effective decision making, conservation efforts, and achieving Sustainable Development Goals. It emphasizes adopting the FAIR and CARE principles as a means to accelerate action by different actors. Stakeholders rely on biodiversity data for decision making, monitoring, understanding biological resources, and producing science. So, sharing biodiversity data openly and freely can reduce the cost associated with collecting, managing, and storing data. And it also can increase availability and contribute to adopting international best practices. In this document, four main clusters of barriers to biodiversity information sharing are identified: technical gaps, funding gaps, lack of data availability, quality, and usability, and governance instability. Potential solutions are suggested while acknowledging the challenges that exist in finding and tailoring them.
Governance and capacityReport
7 Jun 2024
Closing the Gap: Investing in natural capital to meet the SDGs.
This report describes the results of a 40 country study looking at the costs and benefits of closing the gap between the current state of natural capital assets and the state that the same assets need to be in to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Biodiversity policyReport
4 Jun 2024
Risk and Resilience: Quantifying the UK Investment Portfolio's Dependence on Nature
There are material dependencies upon nature found throughout the UK’s financial investment portfolio. The ecosystem services that natural capital assets provide have, so far, not been costed into balance sheets, and this means they are often overlooked. However, we find that at least 10% of the UK’s portfolio of bonds, equities and loans is directly Very Highly or Highly dependent on nature and its services. Additionally, £2.5 trillion or 44% of upstream financial exposures are associated with NACE Divisions with a High or Very High dependency on nature and areas of the world with a fast rate of natural capital depletion – exposing this 44% to considerable potential nature-related risk. This should be a wake-up call for financial institutions and policy makers to take steps to more fully understand the UK economy’s dependencies on the natural world and the risks arising from these.
Business and financeReport
23 Apr 2024
Investor guide to environmental and social opportunities and risks: Indonesia
This factsheet provides essential information for financial institutions seeking to generate measurable positive social or environmental impact in conjunction with financial returns. The factsheet focuses on investments in sustainable land use in Indonesia – such as sustainable agriculture, agroforestry and ecosystem restoration. This forms part of a series of factsheets focusing on environmental and social risks and impacts at a country level, which are hosted on the Land Use Finance Impact Hub.
Business and financeForests and restorationAgriculture and foodGuidanceDOI
28 Mar 2024
Every Job is a Nature Job - Procurement
This brief sets out specific actions for procurement professionals on how to integrate nature into their decision-making.
Briefing
29 Feb 2024
Measuring ecosystem condition- a primer for business
This guidance note is an overview of measuring ecosystem condition, produced by the Align project as a supplement to the recommendations.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
22 Jan 2024
Biodiversity across supply chains- implementing the Align project recommendations for measurement and valuation
Supplementary guidance to support implementation of the Align project recommendations, focusing on supply chains.
Trade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
22 Jan 2024
Biodiversity at site level- implementing the Align project recommendations for corporate measurement and valuation
Supplementary guidance to the Align recommendations, focusing at site level
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
22 Jan 2024
D6.1 Review, analysis and crosswalk of the data requirements of key policies
Monitoring marine and coastal environments is crucial to successfully implement and track the effectiveness of marine biodiversity policy in the European Union (EU). However, critical gaps exist in the availability of the data needed for monitoring. These gaps can impact the effectiveness of biodiversity policy and hinder the conservation efforts for marine ecosystems. The OBAMA-NEXT project aims to address data gaps through the development of novel information products. Developing this toolbox requires a thorough understanding of the data needs that flow from marine biodiversity policy and knowledge of where the major gaps are. This report aims to improve this understanding by identifying key policy instruments and providing a review, analysis and crosswalk of the data needs that Member States are required to report on for eight major European marine biodiversity policy instruments.
Marine and coastsReviewDOI
11 Dec 2023
Value and vulnerability of the peatlands of the central Congo Basin / Importance et vulnérabilité des tourbières du bassin central du Congo
In 2017, a Congolese-UK team of scientists discovered and mapped the world's largest tropical peatland complex, in the central Congo Basin, covering an area greater than the size of England and Wales combined. These forested peatlands stretch across the Republic of Congo (RoC) and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and store in their soils carbon equivalent to three years' worth of global greenhouse gas emissions. The ecosystem is a refuge for threatened species, including the world's densest population of western lowland gorillas. Around 5.5 million people live within or around the Congo Basin peatland complex, many of whom depend on peatland resources for their livelihoods. Here, we share our major findings and their relevance to the conservation of this fragile ecosystem.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
1 Dec 2023
Proteus Technical Brief: Business and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Technical Brief, development under the Proteus Partnership, exploring the potential contributions of business to delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityBriefingFramework
1 Dec 2023
Review, analysis and crosswalk of the data requirements of key policies
Report submitted as part of OBAMA NEXT a Horizon Europe project
Review
30 Nov 2023
A Monitoring Framework for Destructive Fishing
This document explores how “destructive fishing” could be quantified and monitored.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityFramework
21 Nov 2023
Impact Report 2022-2023
The latest Centre Impact Report celebrates the Centre’s recent achievements with partners in tackling the global nature crisis.
Impact report
15 Nov 2023
Proteus Technical Brief: The Area of Influence of site-based operations – Indirect Impacts
This Proteus Technical Brief focuses on key pathways and factors that determine indirect impacts and presents a decision-making framework to capture potential for indirect impacts when selecting appropriate buffers.
Governance and capacityBriefingFramework
20 Sept 2023
Mapping for nature-based solutions: Assessing the utility of global spatial data for national planning
The paper aims to support governments (through their technical teams) in understanding some of the opportunities that high-quality global spatial data offer, especially in the absence of national data. It aims to build trust in the use of high-quality datasets by highlighting some of the barriers to this for national-scale planning and how these barriers may be overcome.
Spatial planning and dataAccess and benefit sharingReport
13 Aug 2023
Fair, equitable and participatory spatial planning for climate and nature goals
This paper sets out principles for spatial planning that furthers the recognition of Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ rights and tenure security, and their contributions to nature and climate goals. It explores the ways in which Indigenous People and local communities can engage in spatial planning processes, and includes case studies from the Congo Basin, Canada, Lao PDR and Peru.
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataCase study
10 Jul 2023
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Impacts of Land-use Change on Biodiversity and Carbon Stocks: The role in the spatial planning process
This paper explores opportunities that Remote Sensing technology provides for biodiversity and carbon monitoring at global scales.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
9 Jul 2023
Understanding Voluntary Carbon Markets
European restoration projects are well-positioned to produce high-quality carbon credits that represent multiple benefits to nature and society. This project provides guidance to restoration projects to understand the opportunities and barriers to engaging with voluntary carbon markets.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationGovernance and capacityGuidance
29 Jun 2023
Mapping nature-based solutions to societal challenges
The report presents a summary of the different spatial analysis approaches available to map potential locations for nature-based solutions that provide the greatest benefits.
Spatial planning and dataReport
18 Jun 2023
Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Cook Islands
This discussion paper describes Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Cook Islands context, including potential for their recognition and recommendations for moving forward.
Protected and conserved areasReport
14 Jun 2023
Towards a Robust Measurement of Business Dependencies on Nature
Guidance outlining how businesses and investors should comprehensively measure business dependencies on nature.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidance
29 May 2023
Restoration Resilience: Data Layer User Guide
This user guide accompanies the Restoration Resilience layer, which shows a 2050 projection of how drastically climate change will affect restorable areas under a business-as-usual scenario.
Business and financeClimate and carbonForests and restorationGuidance
10 May 2023
Decades Of Mangrove Forest Change: What Does it Mean for Nature, People, and The Climate?
This report describes for the first time, how decades of change in mangrove extent have impacted nature, people and the climate.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
5 Mar 2023
Nature Risk Profile: A Methodology for Profiling Nature Related Dependencies and Impacts.
A technical guideline outlining how companies and investors can profile nature-related risks.
Governance and capacityReport
17 Jan 2023
La planification spatiale à l'ordre du jour : comment des pays très ambitieux atteignent des objectifs en faveur de la nature et du climat
Ce document cherche à encourager les décideurs étatiques à mettre en oeuvre une planification spatiale intégrée pour matérialiser leurs engagements en faveur de la nature et du climat, par exemple les objectifs de protection 30x30 ou les engagements envers les écosystèmes terrestres conformément aux contributions déterminées au niveau national pour atteindre les objectifs climatiques. Il décrit cinq études de cas qui démontrent la faisabilité d'une planification spatiale intégrée. à partir de ces exemples, ce document tire les enseignements d'une planification spatiale réussie et formule des recommandations à l'intention des Ãtats.
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReport
13 Dec 2022
Poniendo la planificación espacial en el mapa: cómo los países de alta ambición logran objetivos en favor de la naturaleza y el clima
Este informe tiene como objetivo alentar a los dirigentes gubernamentales a implementar la planificación espacial integrada para hacer efectivo su compromiso por la naturaleza y el clima —como las metas de protección 30x30 o los compromisos de actividades terrestres enmarcados en las Contribuciones Nacionalmente Determinadas (NDC, por sus siglas en inglés)— con el fin de lograr los objetivos climáticos. Para ello, se describen cinco casos de estudio que demuestran la viabilidad de la planificación espacial integrada, a partir de los cuales se extraen enseñanzas para alcanzar una planificación espacial exitosa y ofrecer recomendaciones clave a los gobiernos.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
6 Dec 2022
How blue is national biodiversity planning and action? Understanding how issues relating to marine and coastal biodiversity are included in national biodiversity strategies and action plans.
An overview of how marine and coastal biodiversity has been included in NBSAPs.
Biodiversity policyMarine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReport
5 Dec 2022
The Benefits of Ecosystem Restoration (Report and Policy Brief)
Report and policy brief on the benefits of ecosystem restoration based on five case studies.
Forests and restorationCase studyBriefingDOI
1 Dec 2022
Financing the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
The discussion paper provides recommendations to help ensure that financing and investing in the gender-responsive implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is considered by Parties to the CBD, other governments, and relevant financial institutions (national, multilateral and from the private sector)
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Dec 2022
Nature-related Opportunities in the Agricultural Sector: Lessons Learned and Way Forward
Lessons learned from a project exploring what the TNFD's concept of nature-related opportunities might look like in the context of the agricultural sector, including the development and piloting of indicators for banks to track nature-related opportunities in their portfolios.
Business and financeReport
29 Nov 2022
Putting spatial planning on the map: How high ambition countries are achieving nature and climate goals
This brief aims to encourage decision-makers in governments to deploy integrated spatial planning to operationalize their commitments for nature and climate, such as 30x30 protection targets or land-based commitments under Nationally Determined Contributions to achieving climate goals. It describes five case studies that demonstrate the feasibility of integrated spatial planning. From these, the paper draws lessons for successful spatial planning and key recommendations for governments.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataCase studyBriefing
15 Nov 2022
Crosswalk Analysis of Protected Area Effectiveness Assessment Methods and the IUCN Green List Standard: Summary Report
This is a summary of a crosswalk analysis assessing the alignment between various protected area management effectiveness assessments and the IUCN Green List Standard.
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReport
8 Nov 2022
Identifying Opportunity Areas for Agroforestry to Meet Cocoa and Forest Policy Objectives in Ghana
This report maps several scenarios for agroforestry development in Ghana, which can be used to spatially prioritise areas for interventions to achieve multiple objectives such as sustainable cocoa production, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
4 Nov 2022
Strengthening Synergies: Climate Change Mitigation Benefits From Achieving Global Biodiversity Targets
Report on the climate change mitigation benefits that can be gained from achieving proposed global biodiversity targets. It provides climate and biodiversity policy leaders with robust information on the size of potential CO2 emissions reductions and enhanced removals from area-based conservation and ecosystem restoration in line with draft targets. This information can support discussions of nature-based solutions for meeting climate and biodiversity objectives.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReport
25 Oct 2022
Harnessing the potential of spatial data & digital technologies to prioritise nature and climate action
This paper aims to inspire decision-makers in both the public and private sector to use spatial intelligence as an enabler for integrated nature and climate action. It showcases ’emerging’ data sources and digital technology in the nature and climate space and their use in providing spatial intelligence to decision-makers. All specific tools and solutions mentioned are examples and not exhaustive of all that is (increasingly) available.
Business and financeClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
23 Oct 2022
Advances in Biodiversity and Conservation Science 2021
This report highlights the Centre’s key scientific and technical achievements from 2021, with activities displayed in line with our new thematic focus areas. The examples showcased here are snapshots of the breadth of work conducted at the Centre by our talented and highly dedicated staff.
Report
9 Oct 2022
Ecological Connectivity Indicators for Measuring Progress Towards The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This document summarizes recent discussions on relevant indicators for measuring ecological connectivity across the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, drawing on the outcomes from a virtual expert workshop convened in April 2022, and further discussion in an online webinar with Parties to the CBD and observers in October 2022.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityFramework
29 Sept 2022
Location Matters: Using spatial intelligence for business action on nature and climate
This white paper lays out practical opportunities for action by businesses and governments on spatial intelligence for nature and climate.
Business and financeClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
4 Sept 2022
Measuring Climate Change Mitigation Potential
Guidance on using two freely accessible tools for estimating the greenhouse gas balance of restoration projects.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationGovernance and capacityGuidance
31 Aug 2022
Spatial intelligence and business: data application for a nature positive and net zero future
A paper on how using location-specific information can help inform decision-making, transform & improve business strategies to achieve global nature and climate goals.
Business and financeClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
27 Jul 2022
Nature and People the Centre Strategy 2022-25
Our new strategy places a clear emphasis on where the Centre can make a difference, supporting our partners to deliver on the vision of a world living in harmony with nature.
Report
31 Mar 2022
Are You Ready For Nature-Related Disclosure?
This report presents the results of a corporate sector market readiness assessment commissioned by UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supporting the mission of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Alliance.
Business and financeSpatial planning and dataReport
31 Mar 2022
Nature In A Haystack: Leveraging Public Nature-Related Data In Disclosure Frameworks
The aim of this report is to review the potential for mobilising appropriate data at the national level for use in assessing and reporting on nature-related risks and opportunities.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityReview
31 Mar 2022
Prioritising Nature-related Disclosures
This report provides an overview of main dependencies and impacts for 10 high-risk sectors. The information presented here is based on synthesis of sector-level analyses from the ENCORE tool as well as several other key sources.
Business and financeReport
31 Mar 2022
Global Ocean Asset Data Guide and Inventory
The Global Ocean Asset Data Guide provides practical support to countries for the use of global data on ocean assets in developing national ocean accounts. The Guide aims to enable national ocean accounts compilers to make informed decisions on the use of global ocean datasets. The accompanying Global Ocean Asset Data Inventory lists global datasets on ocean assets that may be used by national account compilers in developing national ocean accounts where national data are not available.
Marine and coastsGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
18 Mar 2022
A gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework
This document outlines recommendations for integrating a gender perspective into the post-2020 global biodiversity framework based on discussions at the informal workshop convened by UN Women and the Centre.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Feb 2022
African Natural Heritage: Possible Priorities for the World Heritage List
A map showing potential and existing World Heritage Sites in Africa.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2022
Contributions of Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans to a Healthy Ocean
The report draws on a series of case studies that examine the cumulative impact of these conventions and policies over the past 45 years.
Marine and coastsCase study
1 Jan 2022
CITES Review of Significant Trade (plants)
As part of the CITES Review of Significant Trade, we undertake species assessments and identify plant species that may be at risk.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2022
CITES Review of Significant Trade (animals)
As part of the CITES Review of Significant Trade, we underatke species assessments and identify animal species that may be at risk.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2022
Preliminary guidance on terms related to the artificial propagation of CITES regulated plants
Guidance for CITES Parties on the terms related to artificial propagation of plants.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityGuidance
31 Dec 2021
Mapping Opportunities for Cocoa Agroforestry in Côte d’Ivoire
Assessing its potential to contribute to national forest cover restoration targets, and ecosystem service co-benefits
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Dec 2021
Proteus Technical Brief: The Area of Influence of Site-Based Operations – Direct Impacts
This Proteus Technical Brief focuses on the considerations for assigning buffer distances for high-level screening of biodiversity exposure based on direct impacts.
Briefing
11 Nov 2021
Brownfield sites: Achieving net gain through the biodiversity potential of brownfield sites
Proteus technical briefing note on achieving net gain through brownfield sites.
Briefing
31 Aug 2021
Opportunities and challenges for the blue economy in Uruguay
This policy brief presents the findings of a Rapid Assessment of existing progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities for the blue economy in Uruguay. It provides recommendations for actions that could support the development of a sustainable blue economy in the country.
Spatial planning and dataBriefing
30 Jul 2021
FLEGT Regulation: Union-wide annual overviews
Overview based on the analysis of information on the application of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005), submitted by EU Member States
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityReport
30 Jun 2021
Climate change mitigation in the ELP: Guidance and tool Protocols. Measuring the climate change mitigation potential of the Endangered Landscape Programme
This document sets out the ethos, tools, and methods used to provide a greenhouse gas (GHG) balance estimate for restoration projects within the Endangered Landscapes Programme. The document is intended to provide guidance on using two GHG assessment tools, EX-ACT and Carbon Benefits Project toolkit to estimate the climate change mitigation benefit of landscape-scale restoration projects and the restoration activities they include.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataGuidanceDOI
31 May 2021
EU Wildlife Trade: Analysis of the European Union and candidate countries' annual reports to CITES
Annually conducted analyses of CITES-listed wildlife trade by EU Member States between 2012 and 2020.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
29 May 2021
Aligning financial portfolios with biodiversity goals: Scoping report and full method for the ENCORE biodiversity module
This report sets out the methodology used in the ENCORE biodiversity module.
Business and financeReview
25 May 2021
Methodology for Assessing the Impacts of Trade Agreements on Biodiversity and Ecosystems
This document provides a methodological framework for assessing the impact of EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Trade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityFrameworkDOI
18 May 2021
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate
To launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UNEP has released this synthesis report as a call to action for anyone and everyone to join the #GenerationRestoration movement to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
6 Mar 2021
West Africa vultures - a review of trade and sentinel poisoning
Assessments of conservation status of, and trade in six key West African vulture species to contribute to CITES decision making.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReview
28 Feb 2021
Nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation
This report will assesses the current state of knowledge on the size of the contribution that nature based solutions can make and the types of action they will involve. It will discuss the importance of social and environmental safeguards, how nature based solutions can be financed and the role of offsets. Most importantly, it will consider the potential of nature-based solutions for mitigation to also contribute to climate adaptation and other pressing challenges.
Business and financeClimate and carbonReportDOI
1 Jan 2021
Natural Climate Solutions Enabling Project: report. Measuring the climate change mitigation potential of the Endangered Landscape Programme
This project has the following three aims: to quantify the potential contribution of ELP projects to climate change mitigation and identify how each project could increase their carbon sequestration and storage benefits, while still achieving their core biodiversity goals; to review the suitability of existing tools to assess the climate change mitigation of landscape restoration projects and select one tool for which protocols will be developed to enable projects to apply it to their own landscapes; to develop advocacy materials to promote conservation-focused natural climate solutions at relevant climate and biodiversity events and conventions. This may include presentations at side events or consultations with country negotiators and NGOs.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReviewDOI
1 Jan 2021
Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
A practical context analysis guide to improve understanding and strategy for the political challenge of integrating biodiversity information.
Governance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Jan 2021
Reports on Uganda's Natural Capital Accounts
This includes natural capital accounts, metadata reports, and policy briefs for three sets of accounts for Uganda: Biodiversity and Tourism Accounts for Uganda, Fisheries Resources Accounts for Uganda, and Land and Soil Improvement Accounts for Uganda.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2021
Integrating a gender perspective in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
This brief outlines four recommendations for embedding a gender perspective in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityBriefingFramework
1 Jan 2021
Aligning financial portfolios with biodiversity goals: How to use the ENCORE biodiversity module
This report provides guidance on how to use ENCORE's biodiversity module to explore the potential alignment of financial activities in selected sectors with a nature-positive future.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2021
Governing Coastal Resources: Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy
The report draws together an evidence base that demonstrates beyond question the need for enhanced governance coordination between terrestrial activities and marine resources.
Marine and coastsGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2021
Biodiversity platforms for implementing a sustainable world
Types and ingredients of effective biodiversity platforms
Report
1 Jan 2021
Global Manual on Ocean Statistics
This report aims to provide guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitoring our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The report focuses on the SDG indicators where UNEP is the custodian and responsible for global monitoring, including SDG 14.1.1(a) on coastal eutrophication; SDG 14.1.1(b) on marine debris, SDG 14.2.1 on marine area management and SDG 14.5.1 on protected areas and conservation.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasMarine and coastsGuidance
1 Jan 2021
Key obligations and practical aspects of the application of the EUTR and the FLEGT Regulation
Information on the application of the FLEGT Regulation and EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) in 2019 and 2020, submitted by EU Member States and European Economic Area (EEA) countries.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsReport
18 Oct 2020
Report on Pterocarpus erinaceus in all range States
A review assessing Pterocarpus erinaceus under the CITES Review of Significant Trade (RST) process.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReview
29 Sept 2020
Biodiversity Measures for Business: Corporate biodiversity measurement, reporting and disclosure within the current and future global policy context
This paper reviews the drivers and current practice around business measurement, reporting and disclosure on biodiversity, investigates the role of these approaches in future business disclosure for informing global policy targets and recommends several key actions required to scale up these efforts.
Business and financeReportDOI
30 Jun 2020
Beyond "Business as Usual": Biodiversity Targets and Finance
This report aims to enable a better understanding of the business sectors and financial mechanisms at risk from the loss of biodiversity and lay the groundwork for biodiversity-related target-setting by the finance sector. It sets out an initial approach to enable financial institutions to set evidence-based biodiversity targets aligned with international policy developments.
Business and financeReport
29 Jun 2020
Out of the Blue: The Value of Seagrasses to the Environment and to People
The importance of seagrasses is highlighted in a this report, Out of the Blue: The Value of Seagrasses to the Environment and to People , released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) together with GRID-Arendal and the Centre.
Report
31 May 2020
Country overviews of Competent Authority EU Timber Regulation checks
Biannual overviews of the checks performed by EU Member States and EEA Competent Authorities to enforce the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation, compiled on behalf of the European Commission by the Centre in close cooperation with the Member States Competent Authorities.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityReport
31 Mar 2020
Background analyses for the annual synthesis reports of the implementation of the FLEGT Licensing Scheme under Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005
These reports provide an analysis of the reports on the implementation and enforcement of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005), submitted by EU Member States to the European Commission, as required by Article 8.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityReport
1 Mar 2020
Strengthening Synergies: How action to achieve post-2020 global biodiversity conservation targets can contribute to mitigating climate change
This report looks at the carbon stocks associated with areas identified as possible priorities to meet proposed global biodiversity conservation targets.
Biodiversity policyClimate and carbonReportDOI
1 Jan 2020
Building a multidimensional biodiversity index
This report supports the launch of a Centre project, in partnership with the Luc Hoffmann Institute (LHI) and other stakeholders and supported by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), on developing and testing a Multidimensional Biodiversity Index (MBI) to measure biodiversity health.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2020
The Centre Programme Response to Covid-19
This document outlines the Centre’s contribution to the global response to Covid-19, which will focus on two main pathways: 1. Understanding and addressing drivers of zoonotic disease emergence, 2. Seeking a transformational change in the relationship between people and nature.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2020
Integrating biodiversity into the Sustainable Development Agenda: An analysis of Voluntary National Reviews
This report reviews a relevant sample of Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) published between 2017-2019 to assess how biodiversity is reflected in national SDG implementation and review processes.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityReviewDOI
1 Jan 2020
Sailing towards a plastic-free ocean
The Sailing Towards a Plastic-Free Ocean project had two primary aims: (1) to conduct marine plastic pollution research, and (2) to educate the next generation of ocean leaders.
Marine and coastsReportDOI
1 Jan 2020
A better world Vol 6 - action on SDG 14 to increase understanding of ocean debris
An overview of the Sailing Towards a Plastic-Free Ocean project, a marine plastic pollution research project and an SDG14 action.
Biodiversity policyMarine and coastsReportDOI
1 Jan 2020
Briefing Notes for the Competent Authorities (CA) implementing the EU Timber Regulations
Bi-monthly briefing notes on developments relevant to the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation, compiled by the Centre as a consultant of the European Commission in close cooperation with the Member States Competent Authorities.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityBriefing
1 Jan 2020
Benefits of Restoring Europe: Examples of the biodiversity, climate and wider socio-economic benefits of ecological restoration in Europe
This technical report was produced for the Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) by the Centre, together with BirdLife Europe and Central Asia, in order to assess the benefits of ecosystem restoration in Europe. The report is the result of a literature review conducted in 2020.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReviewDOI
1 Jan 2020
The Centre Annual Reports (2006-2019)
These Annual Reviews celebrate the Centre’s achievements over the years in helping to tackle the global nature crisis.
Report
1 Jan 2020
MESA: Mapping Environmentally Sensitive Assets
MESA (Mapping Environmentally Sensitive Assets) is a tool intended for a broad audience of individuals working on the development and use of environmental sensitivity maps in various contexts. It provides a step-by-step protocol for developing an environmental sensitivity atlas based on a standardised methodology that was developed following a review of multiple existing methods.
Spatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2020
Biodiversity Indicators for Site-Based Impacts
This document, developed with the support of IPIECA and the Proteus Partnership, sets out a methodology for aggregating biodiversity impact and performance data at a site level to provide indicators of biodiversity management performance at corporate level.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2020
Funding Ecosystem Restoration in Europe
Addressing the lack of available restoration funding data, ‘Funding Ecosystem Restoring in Europe’ contains a high-level analysis of what was funded, where, by whom, how much and for what purpose. This report is accompanied by a database of over 400 ecosystem restoration projects on which the analysis was based.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2020
Towards Nature-Positive Business: The Case for Biodiversity Indicators
This document outlines the case for increasing uptake of biodiversity indicators to help businesses through an improved understanding of their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2020
Exploring the relationship between trade and biodiversity through the lens of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity
A contribution to the Dasgupta Review on behalf of the UKRI GCRF TRADE Hub project.
Trade and supply chainsReview
1 Jan 2020
Natural Capital Platforms and Tools for Green Growth Planning
Paper assessing 28 platforms and tools based on their potential to provide access, manipulate and visualize natural capital data.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2020
World Oceans Day for Schools 2020
This is a quiz to learn more about the ocean.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2020
Assessment of biodiversity measurement approaches for businesses and financial institutions
Approaches to measuring and valuing the biodiversity performance of a company or investment.
Business and financeSpatial planning and dataReport
6 Dec 2019
Clarifying terms used in "area-based conservation": A contribution to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
This discussion document describes three groups of area-based conservation: Protected Areas (PAs) and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs); area-based conservation management or governance approaches; and areas of importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityFramework
29 Nov 2019
CMS Analysis and Synthesis of National Reports COP 13
Overview of the status of implementation of the Convention on Migratory Species as of COP 13 in 2020.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReport
1 Nov 2019
ENCORE for Planetary Health
In this report we explore the potential for an existing tool; ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure), developed to assist financial institutions, business and governments carry out natural capital assessments; to integrate information about human health and wellbeing. ENCORE currently enables users to explore the relationships between economic sectors, ecosystem services, natural capital assets and drivers of change from whichever starting point is most useful and relevant to them, including by geographic location.
Business and financeSpatial planning and dataReport
30 Sept 2019
Strengthening CITES implementation in Central America and the Caribbean: Species Reviews
This report contains in-depth reviews of the biology, conservation status and management of three taxa that were identified by CITES Parties in Central America and the Caribbean as priority species where more information was required to produce robust non-detriment findings – Honduras rosewood ( Dalbergia stevensonii ), queen conch ( Stombus gigas ) and hammerhead sharks ( Sphyrna spp .).
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReport
30 May 2019
Strengthening CITES implementation in Central America and the Caribbean
This report contains in-depth reviews of the biology, conservation status and management of three taxa that were identified by CITES Parties in Central America and the Caribbean as priority species where more information was required to produce robust non-detriment findings – Honduras rosewood (Dalbergia stevensonii), queen conch (Stombus gigas) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp.).
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReportDOI
30 Apr 2019
The interplay between CITES and EUTR/FLEGT
A discussion document for the Joint EUTR/CITES Expert Group meeting, comparing the requirements for ensuring legality of timber under the EUWTR, the EUTR and the FLEGT Regulation.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
28 Feb 2019
A synthesis of available scientific input to inform the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
This report draws on discussions held during a workshop convened at Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK from May 20-24, 2019 titled “Gaining consensus on spatial and temporal biodiversity metrics for informed decision-making”.
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityFrameworkDOI
1 Jan 2019
Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing: a review of existing frameworks
This report provides an overview of policy and legal frameworks regarding access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the European Union, India, Japan, Peru, and South Africa.
Access and benefit sharingGovernance and capacityReviewDOI
1 Jan 2019
A marine spatial planning framework for areas beyond national jurisdiction
This report showcases a marine spatial planning (MSP) framework for areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), for the purposes of conserving and sustainably using biodiversity.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityFrameworkDOI
1 Jan 2019
Area-based planning in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: A synthesis
This synthesis report draws on the different studies developed under the ABNJ Deep Seas project and provides insights into the future of cross-sectoral area-based planning in ABNJ.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
1 Jan 2019
Overview of Competent Authority EU Timber Regulation checks
These documents provide overviews of the checks Competent Authorities have performed to verify compliance of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), as well as any enforcement actions taken.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsReportDOI
1 Jan 2019
Case study: Migrations of Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) in the Eastern South Pacific connect multiple South American jurisdictions with the High Seas
This case study uses data from Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) to examine the migratory patterns of blue whales.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeCase studyDOI
1 Jan 2019
Case Study: Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles' (Dermochelys coriacea) movements and area- use in the South Pacific
This case study uses data from Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) to show the journey of Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), a highly mobile species that migrates across entire ocean basins.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeCase studyDOI
1 Jan 2019
Case Study: Migratory behaviour and management implications of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Western Indian Ocean
This case study uses data from Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) to examine the migratory behaviour of Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas).
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeCase studyDOI
1 Jan 2019
Review and accountability mechanisms of selected international agreements to inform the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
This briefing document presents an overview of a number of review and accountability mechanisms developed under a range of international agreements.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityBriefingReviewDOI
1 Jan 2019
Connectivity: A critical biodiversity consideration in global ocean sustainability
This technical explains how connectivity can be considered in the negotiations for a new international legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
Marine and coastsReportDOI
1 Jan 2019
Learning from experience: case studies of area-based planning in ABNJ
This report explores four case study regions in which area-based planning has been undertaken in ABNJ and explores the different institutional and legal frameworks in place to facilitate planning, different types of area-based planning, as well as the enabling conditions present in each region.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityCase studyDOI
1 Jan 2019
Data use in natural capital assessments
This review seeks to assist companies in dealing with the data challenges they face when carrying out natural capital assessments.
Spatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2019
Environmental sensitivity mapping for oil & gas development: A high-level review of methodologies
This document provides a non-exhaustive review of sensitivity mapping approaches, outlining the relative advantages, disadvantages and data requirements. The aim is to provide guidance when selecting environmental sensitivity mapping methods under different data availability scenarios, and based on differing user capacities. The document thereby outlines a workflow from ‘limited data’ scenarios to advanced implementation of detailed environmental sensitivity analyses, and the necessary considerations.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidanceReview
1 Jan 2019
Designing a platform for area-based conservation: A contribution to the action agenda for Nature and People
This report identifies lessons from existing commitments platforms, and a set of recommendations for a future Action Agenda platform for area-based conservation commitments.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2019
Case Studies of Ecological Connectivity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
These case studies illustrate ecological connectivity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Case study
1 Jan 2019
Building Capacity for National Ecosystem Assessment
This information document details progress on the ongoing work of national ecosystem assessment coordinated by the Centre.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
9 Nov 2018
Using scenarios and mapping to support sustainable agricultural policy development
Guidance on how scenarios can be used to support sustainable agricultural policy development.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
30 Jun 2018
Safeguarding space for nature and securing our future: developing a post-2020 strategy
This information document provides a summary of the key messages from a two-day symposium on 'Safeguarding space for nature and securing our future: developing a post-2020 strategy.'
Biodiversity policyReport
26 Jun 2018
Effective use of knowledge in developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
The document provides options for consideration by Parties and partner organizations for increasing access to evidence that supports the development of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityFramework
15 Jun 2018
The pollination deficit: Towards supply chain resilience in the face of pollinator decline
Companies are facing potential shortages of raw materials, a fall in crop quality, and challenges around security of supply because of an emerging pollination deficit.
Trade and supply chainsAgriculture and foodReport
17 Apr 2018
Global screening for Critical Habitat in the terrestrial realm
This paper presents a global screening layer of Critical Habitat in the terrestrial realm, derived from global spatial datasets covering the distributions of 12 biodiversity features aligned with guidance provided by the IFC.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
22 Mar 2018
Compendium of guidance on achieving synergies among biodiversity-related conventions at the national level
The purpose of the document is to help increase access to existing guidance material on synergies among the biodiversity-related conventions and to provide a basis for identifying gaps in the available guidance.
Governance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Mar 2018
Overview of Initiatives for Enhancing Coordination and Collaboration at Various Levels Across Biodiversity-Related Conventions.
Fostering synergies and enhancing collaboration and coordination across biodiversity-related conventions is not a new concept, and it has been emphasized in policy and academic discussions since the 1990s (for definition of key terms cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and synergies see Box 1). These discussions originate both from concern over the potential for fragmentation, conflict and the burden on state capacity to implement numerous environmental obligations simultaneously, and from recognition of the benefits that can be derived from enhancing collaboration and coordination. As a result, the issue is regularly addressed under the agenda items relating to cooperation at each meeting of the governing bodies of biodiversity-related conventions (for example at the most recent Conference of the Parties to The Convention on Migratory Species, resulting in decision 11.10). It has also been an issue regularly addressed in workshops organized by convention secretariats and others, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReport
1 Mar 2018
Space for Nature Symposium
As part of the process to develop a post-2020 strategy, this symposium reviewed the science and provided evidence-based recommendations on the future of area-based conservation targets.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasReport
28 Feb 2018
Background analyses of the national biennial reports on the implementation of the European Union’s Timber Regulation (Regulation EU No 995/2010)
This report provides an analysis of the biennial reports from 2015-2017 and 2018-2019 on the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation (Regulation EU No 995/2010), submitted to the European Commission, as required by Article 20.
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsGovernance and capacityReport
1 Feb 2018
The distribution of threats from future agricultural development for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Lake Victoria Basin
Providing analyses and baseline data to support decision-making in relation to the potential future impacts of major commodity developments on biodiversity in short-term and long-term planning in the Lake Victoria Basin.
Trade and supply chainsSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Feb 2018
Global Protected Planet Reports
Tracking progress towards global targets for protected areas
Protected and conserved areasReportDOI
1 Jan 2018
Mapping of current and potential use of biodiversity indicators across intergovernmental processes
This table shows a mapping of global biodiversity indicators to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and biodiversity-related conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar), and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Biodiversity policyTrade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
1 Jan 2018
Assessing Environmental Impacts - A Global Review of Legislation
This report provides an overview of the current status of national legislation and institutional arrangements of relevance to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) across the globe, as well as emerging issues and trends.
Spatial planning and dataReviewDOI
1 Jan 2018
Compendium of guidance for capturing, managing and using data and information
This compendium of guidance provides details of information sources for capturing, managing, using, and sharing data, all in the context of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Governance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Jan 2018
Compendium of guidance on key global databases related to biodiversity-related conventions
This compendium of guidance provides details of global-level databases relevant to the implementation of the biodiversity-related conventions.
Governance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Jan 2018
Area-based management approaches and the Sustainable Development Goals
The Centre has undertaken an exciting analysis of how and why area-based management approaches can be used to support the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals. Using evidence from 25 case studies, the contributions of different types of approach towards specific Targets are identified. This work has been funded by the European Commission and undertaken in collaboration with UN Environment.
Case study
1 Jan 2018
Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure: A practical guide for financial institutions
This technical report provides an overview of Phase 1 of the Advancing Environmental Risk Management project. The knowledge base compiled as part of this project is a comprehensive source of information to understand the benefits that natural capital provides to the economy, the risks that materialise when these are disrupted by environmental change, and how these risks can be assessed in specific contexts.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2018
Ocean+ Habitat Atlas User Manual
The Ocean+ Habitat Atlas (or Atlas) aims to produce the first online, authoritative database on the known extent of ecologically-important ocean habitats, such as seagrasses, warm- and cold-water corals, mangroves and saltmarshes, and to update this database consistently over time.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2018
A review of area-based planning tools. What is the potential for cross-sectoral planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction?
A review of existing sectoral area-based planning tools to determine their potential to support cross-sectoral planning for the purposes of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Spatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2018
Marine Connectivity Across Jurisdictional Boundaries: An Introduction
This document is part of the Sustainable Fisheries Management and Biodiversity Conservation of Deep Sea Living Resources in ABNJ Project (ABNJ Deep Seas Project) and provides an introduction to connectivity in the marine environment from a spatial planning context, whilst discussing the relevance to ABNJ.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2018
Integrating Natural Capital in Risk Assessments: A step-by-step guide for banks
This rapid natural capital risk assessment process focuses on identifying the ways in which businesses depend on the environment, how these dependencies are threatened by environmental change, and the resulting risks for financial institutions. This report provides a step-by-step guide for conducting a rapid natural capital risk assessment, with links to additional online resources. The guide was developed based on experience piloting the approach with banks across three countries: Colombia, Peru and South Africa.
Business and financeSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2018
Analysis of International Funding for the Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs and Associated Coastal Ecosystems
Between 2010 and 2016, more than USD 1.9 billion was committed to implement, monitor and enforce the conservation and sustainable management of tropical coral reefs and associated mangroves and seagrasses, yet coral reef ecosystems alone provide society with living resources and services equating approximately USD 375 billion per year. This analysis explores the intended purpose and spatial and temporal distribution of these funding allocations. The alignment of funding with policy ambitions related to coral reefs and associated ecosystems is assessed, along with implications for future investment in conservation.
Business and financeMarine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2018
Supporting the Transition to a Healthy Ocean
A flier outlining how the Centre the Centre supports the delivery of ocean-related Sustainable Development Goals.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2018
Building capacity for national ecosystem assessments: linking science and policy
Building capacity at the national level to undertake ecosystem assessments and support the uptake of assessment findings into national decision-making.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2018
The Contributions of Marine and Coastal Area-Based Management Approaches to Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
This report aims to identify possible solutions and guidance on how area-based management approaches can be used to support Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) delivery.
Biodiversity policyMarine and coastsGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2018
Applying Marine and Coastal Area-Based Management Approaches to Achieve Multiple Sustainable Development Goal Targets: Summary for Policy Makers
This document summarises the key findings of a Technical Report exploring the potential contributions of marine and coastal area-based management approaches to Sustainable Development Goals.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2018
Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management Approaches to Support the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal Targets 14.1 and 14.2
This report provides guidance on how area-based management approaches can support the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 14 ‘Life Under Water’. There are a variety of approaches used for planning activities in the marine environment. Specifically, this report outlines conceptual guidelines for the application of Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management approaches to support the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal Targets 14.1 and 14.2
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2018
2018 United Nations List of Protected Areas. Supplement on protected area management effectiveness
The 2018 edition of the UN List is the fifteenth release since the publication of the first version in 1961 – 62, and is a review of progress since 2014. It shows that the protected area estate worldwide has continued to expand since 2014, both on land and in the marine environment. In fact, the area protected in the marine environment has nearly doubled since 2014. This is partly due to the designation of some very large marine protected areas in many regions. While increases in coverage are an important indicator of the determination of governments to meet Aichi Target 11, covering greater areas will not alone halt the loss of biodiversity. For this reason, this report has a particular focus on the management effectiveness of the world’s protected areas. This is the first time that the UN List has included this aspect as a focus for analysis.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReview
1 Jan 2018
Review of future projections of biodiversity and ecosystem services
This information document reviews recent information from the scientific literature on the status, trends, and projections of global biodiversity and ecosystem services, and describes how this can be used to inform how the 2050 Vision might be achieved.
Review
21 Nov 2017
Use of biodiversity scenarios at local, national and regional scales
A review how local, national and regional scenario analyses can contribute to the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityReview
21 Nov 2017
Screening for Critical Habitat: A global screening layer based on the Critical Habitat definition of the International Finance Corporation
Proteus technical briefing note on screening for Critical Habitat
Business and financeBriefing
30 Jun 2017
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Guidance from African experience 2012-17
Guidance on mainstreaming bioidversity into development policy and planning.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
30 Jun 2017
Mapping our conservation future
Final report of a scientific scoping workshop to underpin scaling up ambition for area-based conservation
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReview
5 Jun 2017
Species' responses to climate change: implications for resilient biodiversity management
Proteus technical briefing note on species' responses to climate change
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeBriefing
31 May 2017
Summary of the shared socio-economic pathways
A note summarizing the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) developed by the climate change research community under the mandate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Climate and carbonReport
23 May 2017
Cross-border Cooperation in Maritime Spatial Planning
A key challenge in planning and managing the marine environment is the dynamic and spatially extensive nature of marine ecological and physical processes. Ocean currents, nutrient exchanges, species migration, pollution events, and the effects of climate change on the oceans (such as acidification or ocean warming), typically occur at the regional or global scale.
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReport
30 Apr 2017
Cross-Border Collaboration In Maritime Spatial Planning Case Study Summary Report: The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in the Southern Ocean
This report presents an analysis of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), an international commission with 25 Members operating under the Convention for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CAMLR Convention), with particular emphasis on cross-border cooperation in a Maritime/Marine Spatial Planning context.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataCase study
30 Apr 2017
A view from above: Accessing and interpreting satellite remote sensing data for biodiversity management
Proteus technical briefing note on accessing and interpreting satellite remote sensing data
Spatial planning and dataBriefing
31 Mar 2017
Cross-Border Collaboration In Maritime Spatial Planning Case Study Summary Report: Coral Triangle Initiative For Coral Reefs, Fisheries And Food Security (CTI-CFF)
This Report presents an analysis of the Coral Triangle Initiative for Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF), a multi-lateral treaty partnership between Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste, as well as a number of NGO, government and donor partners.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataCase study
1 Mar 2017
Wildlife trade in Amazon countries: an analysis of trade in CITES-listed species
This report presents the first comprehensive overview of international trade in CITES-listed wildlife in the Amazon countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. The analysis provides a baseline of information on trade levels and trends in these countries for the ten-year period 2005-2014, in order to inform trade management in the region. Produced in close collaboration with national experts, the report also presents contextual information and insights into the management of wildlife trade in the region.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
1 Jan 2017
Governance of areas beyond national jurisdiction for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Institutional arrangements and cross-sectoral cooperation in the Western Indian Ocean and South East Pacific
This study describes the intergovernmental organizations and legal agreements that pertain to conservation and sustainable use in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) in the Western Indian Ocean and the South East Pacific and considers the progress that has been made towards a collaborative and integrated approach to ocean governance in ABNJ.
Marine and coastsGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2017
Planning Management for Ecosystem Services – An Operations Manual
On behalf of ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) the Centre produced an Operations Manual to support planning to provide multiple ecosystem services for local people and wider society.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2017
Experimental Ecosystem Accounts for Uganda
The experimental ecosystem accounts for Uganda presented in this report follow on from a recent publication which explored approaches to accounting for species-level biodiversity and a feasibility study of applications using existing data in Uganda.
Species and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2017
Carbon, biodiversity and land-use in the Central Congo Basin Peatlands
This briefing illustrates with maps the protection status, biodiversity value and potential pressures on the peat swamp forest of the Central Congo Basin Peatlands.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataBriefing
1 Jan 2017
Biodiversity Indicators for Extractive Companies. An Assessment of Needs, Current Practices and Potential Indicator Models
Funded by the Proteus partnership, this document is a report on activities conducted during an initial scoping study to understand how progress might be made within the extractive sector in creating effective indicators to establish corporate biodiversity performance. It summarises the results of an analysis of the needs, drivers and current practice relating to biodiversity indicators within the extractives sector.
Business and financeSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2017
Advancing environmental risk management
This flyer outlines the first phase of the Advancing Environmental Risk Management project and associated outputs.
Report
1 Jan 2017
Horizon Scan of Pressures on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction
This document explores selected key anthropogenic pressures to BBNJ through a Horizon Scan. Horizon scanning is “the systematic search for, and examination of, potentially significant medium- to longterm threats and opportunities within a given field or discipline” (Sutherland et al., 2015).
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2017
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Legal Options for a New International Agreement
The aim of this work is to support States participating in the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Preparatory Committee meetings by presenting options for the content of the legal instrument appropriate for anticipated future changes in the pressures on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. In order to do this, three pressures on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction were chosen: physical loss and damage to the seabed; removal of biological resources; and ocean acidification.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2017
Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
Targets for human development are increasingly connected with targets for nature, however, existing scenarios do not explicitly address this relationship. Here, we outline a strategy to generate scenarios centred on our relationship with nature to inform decision-making at multiple scales.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2017
Delivering Ecosystem-Based Marine Spatial Planning in Practice: Assessing the Integration of an Ecosystem-Based Approach into UK and Ireland Marine Spatial Plans
The aim of the study is to test the efficacy of the WWF ecosystem-based management (EBM) checklist and the Baltic SCOPE Checklist Toolkit approach in assessing the integration of the ecosystem approach in Marine Spatial Planning. As such, it is the first study to comprehensively assess existing UK and Irish marine plans and processes using a consistent set of criteria.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2017
A Collaborative Platform for Making Change – Scaling Up Actions for Biodiversity Conservation (Workshop Report)
The Collaborative Platform for Making Change was convened to identify opportunities for collaboration between business, governments, science providers and NGOs, in support of the delivery of conservation priorities identified at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress. The initiative consisted of an event series bringing together representatives from 20 business and industry associations, 10 NGOs and intergovernmental organisations and 3 research organisations. The event series was organised by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), the Centre, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS, University of Oxford) and BP plc. The report identifies WCC motions which are a joint priority for the public and private sector, based on a cross-sectoral questionnaire. We discuss challenges preventing the scaling up of business action on biodiversity, and actions needed to overcome such barriers. Lastly, we identify potential future areas of work which could add value to existing efforts in the business and biodiversity field.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2017
Global databases to support ICCAs: a new manual for indigenous peoples and local communities
The ICCA Registry and World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) are two global databases that store information on territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs).
Protected and conserved areasReport
31 Jul 2016
Elements For A Modular Reporting Against The Aichi Biodiversity Targets
This study, commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), presents elements for a modular approach to reporting that can be integrated into the reporting guidelines of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for the next national reporting cycle (6th National Reports).
Governance and capacityReport
31 Jul 2016
Potential threat to areas of biodiversity importance from current and emerging oil and gas activities in Africa
Assessing the potential threat of oil and gas installations and associated pipelines to areas of biodiversity importance.
Report
31 May 2016
Out of line, out of mind? Working with data misalignments in global biodiversity spatial datasets
Proteus technical briefing note on working with spatial data misalignments.
Spatial planning and dataBriefing
31 May 2016
Using models to inform policies to meet multiple objectives: Sustainable development climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in Central Africa
Summary results produced by the REDD-PAC project about potential trade-offs and synergies in the achievement of the SDGs under different macro-economic and land-use policy related scenarios in Central Africa.
Biodiversity policyClimate and carbonForests and restorationReport
26 May 2016
Mapping Agricultural Suitability
A review of approaches to support the assessment of synergies and trade-offs between agricultural development and maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Trade and supply chainsSpatial planning and dataReview
30 Apr 2016
Approaches to mapping ecosystem services
This report provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in mapping ecosystem services.
Spatial planning and dataReport
30 Apr 2016
Elaboration of options for enhancing synergies among biodiversity-related conventions
The options for enhancing synergies between the biodiversity-related conventions set forth in the present paper respond to calls by the governing bodies of conventions, the United Nations and UNEP, to explore opportunities for synergies, in order to achieve more coherent and effective implementation of the biodiversity-related conventions.
Governance and capacityReport
1 Mar 2016
Protected Planet Report 2016
The Protected Planet Report 2016 assesses how protected areas contribute to achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and relevant targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, and highlights current research and case studies as examples of the role protected areas play in conserving biodiversity and cultural heritage.
Protected and conserved areasCase studyDOI
1 Jan 2016
A decade of protected area growth: Change in global protected area coverage from 2005 to 2016
This briefing note describes the change in protected area coverage since 2005 across both the terrestrial and marine realm. The analysis was completed using the April 2016 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsBriefingDOI
1 Jan 2016
Using models to inform policies that meet multiple objectives: Assessing the contribution of Brazil's forest code to biodiversity conservation
Summary results produced by the REDD-PAC project about the impacts of Brazil’s Native Vegetation Protection Act, commonly known as the Forest Code (FC), on biodiversity conservation across the country’s biomes.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2016
Mapping biodiversity priorities: A practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
This document sets out a practical, science-based approach to spatial biodiversity assessment and prioritisation, which can be applied at the national level in any country. It is especially useful for countries that are both biodiversity rich and resource constrained, where difficult choices have to be made about how and where to focus conservation action.
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2016
Exploring approaches for constructing Species Accounts in the context of the SEEA-EEA
The Centre has launched an initial step-by-step approach to enable specialist agencies, research institutes and other organisations to develop spatial accounts of species status, an important component of Natural Capital.
Species and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2016
CDAT User Guidelines & Technical Report
These guidelines explain how to use the Capacity Development Assessment Tool (CDAT), which is a suite of Microsoft Excel worksheets developed by the Centre.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2016
REDD-PAC Central Africa SDG Policy Brief
To support Central African countries in meeting their national objectives in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other commitments, an economic land-use model (GLOBIOM-Congo Basin) was used to assess the potential impacts of eight different development and land-use scenarios in relation to four SDGs.
Biodiversity policyForests and restorationBriefing
1 Jan 2016
REDD-PAC Brazil Biodiversity Policy Brief
To support Brazil in meeting its national land-use related commitments, including biodiversity conservation, an economic land-use change model (GLOBIOM-Brazil), was used to assess the potential impacts of options for implementing the provisions of the Forest Code. The model has been validated by comparing the 2000-2010 model projections with official land-use and crop-production statistics for 2010, and was used in the development of Brazil’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).
Climate and carbonForests and restorationAgriculture and foodBriefing
1 Jan 2016
Indicators and Information Systems for biodiversity and development – guidance from the Pan-European region
This report aims to help government staff responsible for biodiversity and sustainable development to have effective indicators and information systems for their work. It is available in English and Russian.
Governance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2016
A review of land-use change models
This document aims to provide an overview of the current state of land-use modelling as well as the usability, applicability and availability of modelling tools.
Forests and restorationReview
1 Jan 2016
Scenario development: A review of approaches
This report reviews approaches to scenario development in support of policy development and decision-making.
Review
1 Jan 2016
Mapping biodiversity over large spatial scales
A review into current approaches for species level analysis
Species and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2016
Natural capital assessments at the national and sub-national level
A guide for environmental practitioners
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2016
Feasibility study for biodiversity accounting in Uganda
This document presents the results of a feasibility study for biodiversity accounting in Uganda
Report
1 Jan 2016
Options for ecosystem-based adaptation in coastal environments
A guide for environmental managers and planners
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2016
Strengthening Governance of the Oil Sector with Respect to Biodiversity: Country Situation Analysis for Uganda And Kenya
This report summarises progress in the strengthening of governance frameworks for effective biodiversity management within two emerging oil nations in Africa; Kenya and Uganda.
Governance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2016
Marine No Net Loss
High-level feasibility assessment of the potential for applying the 'no net loss' concept to the marine environment.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2016
Southern Africa's Wildlife Trade: An analysis of CITES trade in SADC countries
First comprehensive overview of trade in CITES-listed wildlife in southern African countries.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2016
The State of Biodiversity in Africa
A mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Review
1 Jan 2016
The State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
A mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Review
1 Jan 2016
The State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific
A mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Review
1 Jan 2016
The State of Biodiversity in West Asia
A mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Review
1 Jan 2016
Monitoring and evaluating adaptation interventions in Niumi National Park, The Gambia, and Sangomar Marine Protected Area, Senegal
A guide for protected area managers, staff and community associations
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsClimate and carbonGuidance
1 Jan 2016
Resilience and Adaptation Planning for Communities in Protected Areas
Step-by-step, this manual outlines a community-based resilience and adaptation planning process. It equips those working with communities living in, and around, protected areas (PA) with practical tools to effectively engage with those communities regarding the negative impacts of climate change in order to identify locally appropriate resilience and adaptation strategies.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2016
Protected Planet National Technical Series: Republic of Korea
The aim of the report is to assess the status of the protected area network of the Republic of Korea and propose priorities for expansion to support the implementation of international and national biodiversity targets.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2016
Alignment of criteria identifying areas of biodiversity importance and Critical Habitat in IFC PS6
Proteus technical briefing note on using biodiversity designations to assess the likelihood of occurrence of Critical Habitat
Briefing
1 Dec 2015
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Proteus technical briefing note on working with data deficiency.
Access and benefit sharingBriefing
1 Dec 2015
Modelling Land Use Change in Brazil: 2000–2050
This report describes the methods and results of the REDD+ Policy Assessment Centre project (REDD-PAC) project, that supports decision making on REDD+, biodiversity and land use policies in Brazil.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Nov 2015
Modelling Land Use Changes In Brazil 2000-2050. A Report By The REDD-PAC Project
Brazil aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use as a contribution to climate change mitigation and to conserve the country’s rich biodiversity. The country has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 37 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, and intends to reach a 43 per cent cut by 2030. It is the first time a major developing country has committed to an absolute decrease in emissions.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationAccess and benefit sharingReport
1 Nov 2015
Mapping Multilateral Environmental Agreements to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
The report is to inform discussions aiming to identify opportunities of alignment, cooperation and collaboration among the conventions, and to support those involved in NBSAP development, revision and implementation by helping them to identify opportunities for addressing each Aichi Biodiversity Target in a manner that enables the objectives of the biodiversity-related conventions to be addressed coherently.
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
30 Sept 2015
Traceability of Wildlife in Ecuador
This report contributes to ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador to ensure that wildlife trade in the country is sustainable, legal and traceable, by providing an information basis in relation to wildlife trade traceability. The report presents contextual information around wildlife trade traceability.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
30 Sept 2015
WDPA marine and coastal reclassification
Proteus technical briefing note on the reclassification of the World Database on Protected Areas to reflect terrestrial, coastal and marine protected areas.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsBriefing
31 May 2015
Analysis of the Impact of EU Decisions on Trade Patterns. Report 4: Conclusions & Recommendations
This is the fourth report in a series of reports that uses a novel methodology to investigate the impact of EU trade restrictions on trade patterns and that provide the evidence-base to inform future EU policy.
Trade and supply chainsReport
31 May 2015
Sourcebook of opportunities for enhancing cooperation among the Biodiversity-related Conventions at national and regional levels
Governments are party to a range of different international agreements, and one of the many challenges that they face is how to implement these in a joined up, coherent way. The Sourcebook showcases national and regional opportunities for enhancing cooperation among the biodiversity-related Conventions, with the ultimate aim of strengthening their implementation. The Sourcebook is built around 63 illustrative examples from around the world, showing the various mechanisms and approaches that individual countries and regional groups take to improving cooperation. It also highlights existing guidance.
Governance and capacityGuidance
30 Apr 2015
Guidance on Integrating Ecosystem Considerations into Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Assessment to Inform Ecosystem-based Adaptation
The guidance provides information and advice on how to integrate consideration of ecosystems and their services into a climate change Vulnerability and Impact Assessment (VIA).
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
31 Mar 2015
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Tips and tasks from African experience
Guidance on mainstreaming biodiversity and development, based on the combined experience of the African Leadership Group, facilitated by IIED and the Centre
Governance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Mar 2015
Mapping multiple benefits of REDD+ in Paraguay: using spatial information to support land-use planning
In Paraguay REDD+ has the potential to deliver benefits beyond climate change mitigation alone; these will depend on the location and type of REDD+ action implemented. The maps presented in this report are a way of making available to planners information on locations where the potential for multiple social and environmental benefits may make reducing deforestation and forest degradation and restoring forests priorities for REDD+, as well as where REDD+ actions need to take account of potential risks.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
21 Jan 2015
Modelling land use changes in Central Africa. Reports of the REDD-PAC project
In these reports, the GLOBIOM model is used to help identify the areas in Central Africa under the greatest conversion pressures in the future and the consequences in terms of agricultural production, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2015
Using global biodiversity indicators and underlying data to support NBSAP development and national reporting
A roadmap to support NBSAP practitioners
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2015
Experimental biodiversity accounting as a component of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA)
To assist countries in implementing biodiversity accounting, this technical guidance document presents experimental Biodiversity Accounts drawing on case studies from around the world.
Governance and capacityCase studyGuidance
1 Jan 2015
Commodities and biodiversity in the Greater Mekong
Impacts of commodity development on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Greater Mekong and its headwaters
Trade and supply chainsReport
1 Jan 2015
Commodities and biodiversity: Spatial analysis of potential future threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services
A novel analytical framework for considering spatially explicit drivers of land-use change
Forests and restorationTrade and supply chainsSpatial planning and dataFramework
1 Jan 2015
An Introduction to Environmental Assessment
This publication provides an introduction to environmental assessments in terms of why they might be needed, what key questions should be considered in the process of environmental assessment, assessment process and design, and presents information and resources on nice different groups of assessment methods.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2015
Ecuador's Wildlife Trade
Comprehensive overview of wildlife trade in Ecuador from 2004-2014.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2015
Guidelines for Standardised Global Butterfly Monitoring
This publication presents guidelines to support the development of butterfly monitoring at local, national, regional, and global levels. Set out within this document are a suite of standard field protocols that can measure butterfly population change over various spatial and temporal scales, and that can be applied in any part of the world.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2015
A global map to aid the identification and screening of critical habitat for marine industries
A global map that classifies more than 13 million km2 of marine and coastal areas of importance for biodiversity based on their overlap with Critical Habitat criteria, as defined by IFC.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
5 Dec 2014
Ecosystem resilience to climate change: What is it and how can it be addressed in the context of climate change adaptation?
This technical report produced for the Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mountain Ecosystems Project sets out the key terms and concepts that are relevant for analyzing and describing the role of ecosystem resilience in climate change adaptation.
Climate and carbonReport
1 Dec 2014
UN-REDD Programme Launches Info Brief On ‘REDD+ And Adaptation: Identifying Complementary Responses To Climate Change’
The brief highlights the complementarities and potential trade-offs between REDD+ and adaptation actions.
Climate and carbonTrade and supply chainsBriefing
1 Dec 2014
A Mid-Term Analysis of Progress Toward International Biodiversity Targets
The targets set by the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2010 focused international efforts to alleviate global biodiversity decline. However, many of the consequences of these efforts will not be evident by the 2020 deadline agreed to by governments of 150 countries. Tittensor et al. analyzed data on 55 different biodiversity indicators to predict progress toward the 2020 targets—indicators such as protected area coverage, land-use trends, and endangered species status. The analysis pinpoints the problems and areas that will need the most attention in the next few years.
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasForests and restorationReportDOI
9 Oct 2014
Addressing climate change: Why biodiversity matters
This policy brief describes the interconnections between climate change and biodiversity.
Climate and carbonBriefing
29 May 2014
Incorporating and utilising spatial data and mapping in NBSAPs
This document presents a framework to assist NBSAP practitioners to understand why, and identify how, spatial data and mapping can be incorporated into NBSAPs.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeSpatial planning and dataFramework
8 May 2014
Mechanisms Underpinning Climatic Impacts on Natural Populations: Altered Species Interactions are More Important than Direct Effects
Although shifts in species’ distribution and abundance in response to climate change have been well documented, the reasons behind this are poorly understood. Research by partners of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative has demonstrated that climate change disrupts natural relationships between species and results in changes in distribution and abundance.
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
28 Mar 2014
Testing Focus Groups as a Tool for Connecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge on Abundance of Natural Resources with Science-Based Land Management Systems
One of the clearly stated intentions of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to bring both “western scientific” and “indigenous and local” knowledge systems within synthetic global, regional, and thematic assessments. A major challenge will be how to use, and quality-assure, information derived from different knowledge systems. We test how indigenous and local knowledge on natural resources in Miskito and Mayangna communities in Nicaragua, validated through focus groups with community members, compares with information collected on line transects by trained scientists. Both provide comparable data on natural resource abundance, but focus groups are eight times cheaper. Such approaches could increase the amount and geographical scope of information available for assessments at all levels, while simultaneously empowering indigenous and local communities who generally have limited engagement in such processes.
Spatial planning and dataReportDOI
28 Mar 2014
Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model
This paper presents the first example of a General Ecosystem Model (GEM)—called the Madingley Model—a novel class of computational model that can be applied to any ecosystem, marine or terrestrial, and can be simulated at any spatial scale from local up to global.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
10 Mar 2014
Incorporating indicators into NBSAPs – Guidance for practitioners
This document gives guidance on the use of indicators in the preparation and implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Feb 2014
The importance of mangroves to people: A call to action
This global synthesis report serves as a call to action to decision makers and provides a science-based synthesis of the different types of goods and services provided by mangroves and the associated risks in losing these services in the face of ongoing global habitat loss and degradation.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2014
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on: Synthesis of the Key Findings
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment provides the first analysis of the UK’s natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and our continuing economic prosperity.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Comparative Analysis Methodology for World Heritage nominations under biodiversity criteria: A contribution to the IUCN evaluation of natural World Heritage nominations
Methodology developed jointly by IUCN and the Centre for comparative analyses of sites nominated under biodiversity criteria (ix) and (x), to support IUCN World Heritage Panel's recommendations to the World Heritage Committee in relation to the evaluation of new nominations of natural and mixed properties to the World Heritage List.
Report
1 Jan 2014
Global Biodiversity Outlook 4
Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention.
Governance and capacityOutlook
1 Jan 2014
2014 United Nations List of Protected Areas
The 2014 United Nations List of Protected Areas is a compilation of all designated protected areas in the world.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2014
Towards a global map of natural capital: key ecosystem assets
In this report for the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment, the Centre has combined information about key ecosystem assets into global maps.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Opportunities for Using Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Measures to Make Progress Towards the CBD Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Guangxi Province, China
This report examines the opportunities for undertaking forest-based climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. The report further outlines how these activities could contribute to achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Aichi Biodiversity Targets and thus focuses on synergies between climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2014
Les Synergies Entre La REDD+ Et Les Objectifs d’Aichi De La Convention Sur La Diversité Biologique En Afrique Centrale - L’apport De L’analyse Spatiale Pour La Planification Conjointe De Deux Engagements Internationaux Sur Les Forêts
Ce rapport a pour but d'explorer les relations entre la mise en Åuvre au niveau national de deux engagements politiques pris à l'échelle globale qui répondent à ces questions: le mécanisme émergent pour la Réduction des Ãmissions dues à la Déforestation et la Dégradation des forêts, la conservation et l'augmentation des stocks de carbone des forêts et la gestion durable des forêts (REDD+) et la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique (CDB) des Nations Unies.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Synergies between REDD+ and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets in Central Africa
The analysis presented in this report could contribute to a better consideration of the potential for synergies between REDD+ implementation and the multiple benefits related to biodiversity and ecosystem services of forests in the development of national and regional REDD+ strategies.
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2014
Assessing The Biodiversity Impacts Of Policies Related To REDD+: Key Considerations In Using Spatial Analysis And Land Use Modeling, Illustrative Examples From Brazil
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the key global challenges facing people and ecosystems. Deforestation and forest degradation represent significant contributions to anthropogenic CO2 emissions and therefore climate change, with landuse change estimated to provide a net contribution of around 10% of global emissions. Land use change can also cause loss and fragmentation of natural habitats and remains the main driver of biodiversity loss.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Promoting Environmental and Social Benefits Of REDD+ in Peru through Spatial Analysis: How Maps Can Support the Achievement of Multiple Policy Goals
This report aims to promote the preparations for REDD+ in Peru by highlighting some of the potential benefits that can be achieved through REDD+ actions, in addition to the primary aim of climate change mitigation.
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Using Spatial Analysis to Explore Synergies Between the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and REDD+ in the Philippines: A Preliminary Analysis
This report presents selected results of spatial analysis to explore how spatial data can be used to inform where REDD+ could also help to meet the Philippines’ biodiversity conservation targets under the CBD.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Supporting Planning for Multiple Benefits From REDD+ in Uganda: Exploring Synergies with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
This report examines steps in the REDD+ planning process that can support the delivery of multiple benefits in Uganda.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2014
Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy
This report is the result of contributions from all members of UNEP’s International Resource Panel Working Group on REDD+ and a Green Economy.
Report
1 Jan 2014
Commodities and biodiversity in the Great Lakes Region of East and Central Africa
Impacts of commodity develpment on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Trade and supply chainsReport
1 Jan 2014
Commodities and biodiversity in the watersheds of the Andes
Impacts of commody development on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the watersheds of the Andes
Trade and supply chainsReport
1 Jan 2014
Using criteria to strengthen biodiversity considerations: Recommendations for the International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Results of the research and development project, "Options for the incorporation of biodiversity criteria in IKI projects in forests and wetlands."
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2014
Protected areas in IFC Performance Standard 6
Proteus technical briefing note supporting interpretation of protected areas within IFC PS6.
Protected and conserved areasBriefing
1 Jan 2014
Asia Protected Planet Report 2014
This report assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 24 selected countries in East Asia, South Asia and South-east Asia.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2014
The Benefits of Natural World Heritage
The main purpose of this study is to increase awareness and understanding of the full range of direct and indirect benefits that local, national and global communities can receive from natural and mixed World Heritage (WH) sites.
Report
1 Jan 2014
Documents for the Scientific Review Group of the European Union
Reports for the Scientific Review Group (SRG) of the European Union to assist with the implementation of CITES in the EU
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReview
1 Jan 2014
Earth Observation for Biodiversity Monitoring: A Review of Current Approaches and Future Opportunities for Tracking Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
This report offers an accessible overview of the possibilities that remotely sensed data provide to biodiversity monitoring in the context of the Aichi Targets.
Review
1 Jan 2014
Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: An Assessment of Biodiversity Trends, Policy Scenarios and Key Actions
CBD Technical Series 78 This publication accompanies the report Global Biodiversity Outlook 4. It provides a more detailed analysis of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and looks closely at the evidence that underpins the conclusions in GBO-4 and provides policy-relevant information on the actions needed to achieve each target.
Spatial planning and dataOutlook
1 Jan 2014
Participatory biodiversity monitoring for REDD+
Considerations for national REDD+ programmes
Report
31 Aug 2013
Incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem service values into NBSAPs
This guidance document, roadmap and accompanying annex provide succinct information on how values can be incorporated, the entry points at different stages of NBSAP updating process, and the different approaches to support incorporation of values.
Biodiversity policyBusiness and financeSpatial planning and dataGuidance
3 Jun 2013
A Toolkit to Support Conservation by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Building Capacity and Sharing Knowledge for Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (Iccas)
This toolkit has been designed to help civil society organisations access information and resources that can help support and document their livelihoods and conservation work.
Governance and capacityReport
17 May 2013
Using Spatial Information To Support Decisions On Safeguards And Multiple Benefits For REDD+ In Tanzania
The maps presented in this brochure were developed to support Tanzania’s implementation of the REDD+ safeguards, and planning for multiple benefits from REDD+.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2013
Mapping the potential for REDD+ to deliver biodiversity conservation In Viet Nam
Selected results of spatial analyses to explore biodiversity benefits and risks from REDD+ in Viet Nam.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2013
Using Spatial Information to Promote Multiple Benefits from REDD+ in Indonesia: A Compendium of Maps for Central Sulawesi Province
This brochure presents a set of maps that have been developed for decision-makers in the UN-REDD Programme pilot province Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and gives some guidance for their interpretation.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2013
Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Policy and Legislative Frameworks that are Relevant to Redd+ Implementation in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
This report reviews the legal and policy framework for REDD+ activities in the province of Central Sulawesi in Indonesia. This region has been selected as a pilot province under the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme).
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Jan 2013
Identifying Potential Overlap Between Extractive Industries (Mining, Oil And Gas) and Natural World Heritage Sites
This report presents the results of a study into potential overlap between extractive industries (mining, oil and gas) and natural World Heritage sites. At the time of this study, the UNESCO World Heritage (WH) List included 217 properties recognized for their natural Outstanding Universal Value. the Centre, with inputs from a number of partners, conducted an analysis at the global level of the association between the IHS and SNL global datasets on extractive activities and natural WH sites.
Report
1 Jan 2013
Terrestrial Biodiversity and the World Heritage List
The overarching purpose of this study is to assist in the preparation and evaluation of natural and mixed World Heritage nominations that have, from a global conservation perspective, a high potential to meet the ‘biodiversity criteria’ (ix) and/or (x) of the World Heritage Convention.
Report
1 Jan 2013
Coordination and Collaboration for MEAs at National Level
The objective of this report is to gain an improved understanding of the institutional arrangements and structures in place at the national level to support improved cooperation and coordination between the national focal points for seven environment and biodiversity-related MEAs, building on project work already being undertaken in a number of countries.
Report
1 Nov 2012
Biodiversity Monitoring for REDD+
In this paper we summarise the state of knowledge on biodiversity monitoring for REDD+. The primary focus is on REDD+ as a mechanism that will be implemented at the national level. The paper begins by outlining the different ways in which REDD+ may affect biodiversity. It briefly surveys the recent policy developments on biodiversity safeguards for REDD+.
ReportDOI
16 Sept 2012
Meeting Aichi Target 11: What Does Success Look Like for Protected Area Systems?
This paper carries out a clause-by-clause analysis of Target 11 and makes recommendations to countries on interpreting each clause in order to best achieve biodiversity conservation using protected areas.
Protected and conserved areasReport
31 Aug 2012
The UNCCD Impact Indicators Pilot Tracking Exercise: Results and Conclusions
This report presents results and conclusions from a Pilot exercise undertaken to assess the experience of affected country Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) with reporting on impact indicators under the Convention’s Performance Review and Assessment of the Implementation System (PRAIS). The experiences and recommendations presented in this report should be used to guide the 2012–2013 reporting and review process.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidanceReview
10 May 2012
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in performance standards for business
This article highlights some of the major conclusions of the standards related work of the Centre that was carried out in partnership with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Business and financeReport
30 Apr 2012
Promoting synergies within the cluster of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements
This report analyses the potential for much greater synergies between the six main global-scale biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements, by developing recommendations in four key areas: i) the science-policy interface, ii) National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and the national implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, iii) national reporting and iv) capacity-building.
Biodiversity policyGovernance and capacityReportDOI
31 Mar 2012
Promoting synergies within the cluster of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements. Summary report
Summary report of 'Promoting synergies within the biodiversity cluster of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements' (2012).
Report
31 Mar 2012
Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Tropical Reefs
The 10 richest centers of endemism cover 15.8% of the world's coral reefs (0.012% of the oceans) but include between 44.8 and 54.2% of the restricted-range species. Many occur in regions where reefs are being severely affected by people, potentially leading to numerous extinctions. Threatened centers of endemism are major biodiversity hotspots, and conservation efforts targeted toward them could help avert the loss of tropical reef biodiversity.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
12 Feb 2012
Mapping Potential Biodiversity Benefits From REDD+ In the Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Selected results of spatial analyses to explore biodiversity benefits and risks from REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2012
Options for REDD+ action: What are their effects on forests and people? An introduction for stakeholders in Central Sulawesi
This report aims to assist REDD+ decision-makers and stakeholders in Indonesia to assess the possible outcomes of their choices and to plan for actions that provide multiple social and environmental benefits.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2012
REDD+ and the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Promoting synergies in international forest conservation efforts
This Policy Brief explores how REDD+ actions and the achievement of Aichi Biodiversity Targets can mutually support each other. It is illustrated with examples from the Philippines and Tanzania, where ongoing initiatives aim at enhancing REDD+ multiple benefits, and especially the conservation of biodiversity.
Forests and restorationBriefing
1 Jan 2012
Strengthening Benefits From REDD+ For Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services And Livelihoods: A Guide To Tools And Resources That Can Help To Plan For Multiple Benefits From REDD+ In Indonesia
This document is a guide to some of the tools and resources that can help decision-makers and their advisors to identify the changes to the management of forests and other land that are to be achieved as part of implementing REDD+.
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2012
REDD+ Beyond Carbon: Supporting decisions on safeguards and multiple benefits
After discussing REDD+ safeguards this paper outlines a series of analytical approaches that can help provide an evidence base to inform REDD+ decisions.
Climate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2012
Resourcing the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: A first assessment of the resources required for implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
This report provides a first assessment of the costs of meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020.
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2012
The climate relevance of ecosystems beyond forests and peatlands – A review of current knowledge and recommendations for action
Overview on the state of knowledge concerning the status and trends of major ecosystem types with regard to their carbon stocks and greenhouse gas balance
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReview
1 Jan 2012
Biodiversity offsets: voluntary and compliance regimes
A review of existing schemes, initiatives and guidance for financial institutions.
Business and financeGovernance and capacityGuidanceReview
1 Jan 2012
The inclusion of biodiversity in voluntary performance standards for business
Overview of existing biodiversity-related criteria within several business performance standards, and gaps that need to be addressed in order to safeguard biodiversity.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2012
The Centre Rio+20 Briefing Notes
Briefing notes covering several topics for Rio+20.
Briefing
1 Jan 2012
Global Assessment of Opportunities for Restoration of Forests and Landscapes
This assessment determines, in a coarse but globally consistent way, the extent and location of opportunities for restoration of forests and landscapes as well as the associated potential for carbon sequestration. The results should stimulate interest in restoration among international and national policy-makers, help set the global agenda on restoration, and serve as a point of departure for more detailed assessment at the national and regional levels.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReport
29 Nov 2011
Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response
This report sets out a common vision and agenda for UN agencies to step up their efforts to protect and revitalise drylands, and improve the economic and social well being of drylands communities through a positive development and investment approach.
Business and financeReport
30 Sept 2011
CMS Analysis and Synthesis of National Reports COP10
Overview of the status of implementation of the Convention on Migratory Species as of COP 10 in 2011.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReport
28 Aug 2011
Indirect land use change from biofuel production: implications for biodiversity
Impacts of indirect land use change from biofuel production on biodiversity.
Forests and restorationReport
31 Jul 2011
Progress Towards International Targets for Protected Area Coverage in Mountains
Biodiversity loss is continuing undiminished, and the world failed to meet a target to reduce significantly the rate of loss by 2010 (Butchart et al., 2010). In response to this failure, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recently adopted a revised strategic plan which contains 20 new targets for addressing biodiversity loss by 2020. Among these is the commitment that “at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water areas, and 10% of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures…” (CBD, 2010a). As with the earlier 2010 target, the 2020 targets are likely to be applied to the six thematic programmes of work of the CBD which focus on marine and coastal biodiversity, inland water biodiversity, and the biodiversity of forests, dry and sub-humid lands, islands and mountains (CBD, 2006, CBD, 2010b).
Biodiversity policyProtected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReportDOI
31 Jul 2011
Linked Indicator Sets for Addressing Biodiversity Loss
The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership has worked as part of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) project to show the feasibility of establishing linkages between different types of indicators to provide decision-makers with the tools they need to tackle biodiversity loss effectively.
ReportDOI
30 Jun 2011
Making Biodiversity Safeguards for REDD+ Work in Practice
The Centre has developed operational guidelines to assist countries to implement biodiversity safeguards for REDD+. The summary report, containing the operational guidelines, can be found here.
Governance and capacityReport
8 May 2011
Guidance for national biodiversity indicator development and use
The Biodiversity Indicator Development Framework contains key steps for producing successful biodiversity indicators. The Framework can be viewed as a map to this guide and is divided into three themes: purpose, production, and performance.
Biodiversity policySpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidanceFramework
1 Mar 2011
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis of the Key Findings
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA) provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the natural environment in the UK and a new way of estimating our national wealth.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2011
Marine and coastal ecosystem services: Valuation methods and their practical application
This report provides an overview of the main methods of economic valuation, their strengths and weaknesses, and practical applications.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2011
Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Adaptation and Mitigation
This report documents and analyses good practice examples of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe.
Climate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2011
Does EbA Work? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
Systematic review of ecosystem-based adaptation evidence
Climate and carbonReview
1 Jan 2011
Impacts of climate change and selected renewable energy infrastructures on EU biodiversity and the Natura 2000 network
A review of the impacts of infrastructure on biodiversity and the Natura 2000 network in Europe
Climate and carbonReview
1 Jan 2011
Approach for reporting on ecosystem services
Incorporating ecosystem services into an organization's performance disclosure
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2011
Review of the biodiversity requirements of standards and certification schemes
A snapshot of current practice
Review
1 Jan 2011
A Safer Bet for REDD+: Review of the Evidence on the Relationship Between Biodiversity and the Resilience of Forest Carbon Stocks
This report sets out to explore three related hypotheses on the factors affecting forest resilience.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReview
26 Oct 2010
Registro De Datos Útiles Para La Toma De Decisiones En Relación A REDD+ Y Sus Beneficios Multiples. Multiple Benefits Series 7
This metadata directory has been collated to provide an initial overview of existing datasets relevant to REDD+ and multiple benefits, along with the appropriate and available metadata.
Report
7 Oct 2010
What are the ecosystem-derived benefits of REDD+ and why do they matter?
The paper provides an analysis of the ecosystem-derived multiple benefits of REDD+.
Report
30 Sept 2010
Monitoring For REDD+: Carbon Stock Change And Multiple Benefits
This paper investigates the relationship and potential synergies between monitoring systems for carbon stock changes and multiple benefits from REDD+.
Climate and carbonReportDOI
30 Sept 2010
Safeguarding And Enhancing The Ecosystem-Derived Benefits Of REDD+
A future UNFCCC decision on REDD+ is expected to specify certain ‘safeguard’ requirements aimed at ensuring positive outcomes for ecosystem services, biodiversity and local rights and livelihoods. Individual developing countries may choose to adopt more detailed and/or stringent requirements on these potential multiple benefits of REDD+.
ReportDOI
30 Sept 2010
Methods for assessing and monitoring change in the ecosystem-derived benefits of afforestation, reforestation and forest restoration
This report summarises the steps needed to design a system to assess and monitor change in ecosystem services resulting from afforestation, reforestation and forest restoration projects or programmes.
Forests and restorationReport
30 Sept 2010
The Biodiversity Information Clearing House - Concept and Challenges
Centre Biodiversity Series 2 The Convention on Biological Diversity anticipates the establishment of a clearing house mechanism to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation in the field of conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. This paper was prepared by the Centre at the request of the Interim Secretariat, as an input to discussion on the form the clearing house for biodiversity information would take, and the manner in which it would operate. The research was supported by the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
Trade and supply chainsReport
8 Sept 2010
Large Mammal Population Declines in Africa's Protected Areas
Protected areas are the cornerstone of global conservation efforts but their performance in maintaining populations of their key species remains poorly documented. Here, we address this gap using a new database of 583 population abundance time series for 69 species of large mammals in 78 African protected areas.
Protected and conserved areasSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
31 Aug 2010
Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010
The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in unsustainable exploitation of Earth’s biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change, ocean acidification, and other anthropogenic environmental impacts. We argue that effective conservation of biodiversity is essential for human survival and the maintenance of ecosystem processes. Despite some conservation successes (especially at local scales) and increasing public and government interest in living sustainably, biodiversity continues to decline. Moving beyond 2010, successful conservation approaches need to be reinforced and adequately financed. In addition, however, more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.
Business and financeMarine and coastsClimate and carbonReportDOI
31 Aug 2010
Securing Tropical Forest Carbon: The Contribution Of Protected Areas To REDD
This paper combines up-to-date, spatially explicit data to estimate carbon contained within protected areas in the humid tropics, the loss of humid tropical forest within these protected areas and associated total carbon released, and the economic potential of avoid carbon emissions from forest clearance.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReportDOI
29 Jul 2010
World Trade in Crocodilian Skins reports
the Centre has produced a series of reports as part of the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS) which provide an overview of global trade in crocodilian skins and other commodities, primarily based on data included in the CITES Trade Database.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
30 Jun 2010
Global Congruence of Carbon Storage and Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems
This paper uses the best available global datasets on terrestrial biodiversity and carbon storage to map and investigate potential synergies between carbon and biodiversity-oriented conservation.
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
19 Apr 2010
Implications Of The REDD Negotiations For Forest Restoration
This briefing provides an update on negotiations under the climate change convention on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), and their relevance to forest restoration. It has been prepared as part of the REFORLAN project, which has carried out research on dry forest restoration in Mexico, Chile and Argentina.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationBriefingDOI
1 Mar 2010
Opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation through REDD
This paper explores the implications of REDD design and implementation options for biodiversity conservation.
Governance and capacityReportDOI
11 Feb 2010
Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change - Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
Three scientific reviews outlining the relationship between climate change and biodiversity, and the role of biodiversity in adaptation and mitigation.
Climate and carbonReviewDOI
1 Jan 2010
Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: A Manual for Assessment Practitioners
This manual makes the methods of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and associated sub-global (local and regional) assessments widely accessible.
Spatial planning and dataReportDOI
1 Jan 2010
Wild Bird Index: Guidance for national and regional use
This guidance document is one of a series produced with the support of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership to assist Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to track their progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Targets.
Governance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2010
PIANC Dredging and port construction around coral reefs
This guide, developed jointly with UNEP, describes dredging and port construction around coral reefs and how unwanted environmental impacts on coral reefs from the project itself, the dredging and construction works and the operation of the port can best be prevented, controlled or mitigated.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2010
Carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: exploring co‐benefits: Jiangxi Province, China
This report answers questions such as how much carbon was stored in Jiangxi’s ecosystems, how carbon density related to biodiversity and people, and how carbon storage related to Protected Areas.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2010
Carbon, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-Benefits Ecuador
Here, we present an updated map of biomass carbon stocks in Ecuador and analyses of the relationships between carbon and biodiversity, Protected Areas, indigenous people’s territories, poverty, human population density, and other factors, including potential pressures on carbon and biodiversity.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2010
Carbon, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-benefits Cambodia
This report presents results from an initial effort to produce such analyses for Cambodia. It includes new data on the distribution of terrestrial carbon stocks in Cambodia and analyses of its relation to areas of importance for biodiversity, Protected Areas and other land management units, and pressures (such as forest cover loss).
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReportDOI
1 Jan 2010
REDD-Plus and Biodiversity: Opportunities and Challenges
Actions for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under the new global climate change agreement (REDD-plus) can also favour biodiversity conservation, but these additional benefits will depend on how REDD-plus is planned.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2010
Everything is connected: Climate and biodiversity in a fragile world
A publication bringing together eight original articles by experts
Climate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2010
Climate change and the biodiversity of European islands
Report prepared for consideration by the Group of Experts on Biodiversity and Climate Change.
Climate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2010
Are you a green leader? Business and biodiversity making the case for a lasting solution
This publication provides an overview of the impacts and dependencies that business has on biodiversity and ecosystem services and the associated business risks and opportunities. It highlights existing initiatives to address biodiversity and ecosystem services and harness the opportunities this can present.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2010
Framing the flow: Innovative approaches to understand, protect and value ecosystem services across linked habitats
Synthesis of the current state of knowledge regarding the natural capital of water-related ecosystems and habitats
Report
1 Jan 2010
The case for safeguarding profitability and reputation
Written during the international year of biodiversity, this article published in Forum CSR International provides an overview of the business case for biodiversity management.
Business and financeReport
1 Jan 2010
The Living Planet Index: Guidance for National and Regional Use
Provides information to support the calculation and interpretation of the Living Planet Index at the national and regional scales.
Governance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2010
Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessments in Europe: A Review of Application, Methods and Results
This European Study on protected area management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation was conducted between May 2009 and March 2010. Its main purpose was to provide an overview of existing PAME evaluation in European countries, notably with respect to extent of application, methodologies and assessment results.
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2010
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention.
Governance and capacityOutlook
1 Jan 2010
Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative - Working Towards High Seas Conservation
The Global Ocean Biodiversity is an international partnership advancing the scientific basis for conserving biological diversity in the deep seas and open oceans.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2010
Deep-Sea Sponge Grounds: Reservoirs of Biodiversity
This report outlines what is known about deep-water sponge grounds in terms of their distribution, biology, ecology and present-day uses in biotechnology and drug discovery. It also reviews the policy environment within which deep-water sponges can be conserved, discusses options for future policy development, and concludes with a series of recommendations.
Report
1 Jan 2010
Joined-up Indicators Guide Policy Better
With biodiversity still in rapid decline, effective and policy relevant indicators are urgently needed. The current indicator framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is widely influential and includes many good measures. However, each of the CBD indicators presently exists in isolation. It is not clear how they relate to each other, nor how they can be used to assess and inform policies for stemming biodiversity loss.
Governance and capacityGuidanceFramework
1 Jan 2010
Biodiversity Scenarios: Projections of 21st Century Change in Biodiversity and Associated Ecosystem Services
This synthesis focuses on estimates of biodiversity change as projected for the 21st century by models or extrapolations based on experiments and observed trends. The term "biodiversity" is used in a broad sense as it is defined in the Convention on Biological Diversity to mean the abundance and distributions of and interactions between genotypes, species, communities, ecosystems and biomes.
Species and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2010
Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines
Progress towards reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2010
Reply to Jenkins and Joppa - Expansion of the Global Terrestrial Protected Area System
Two recent analyses have measured protected area coverage for each of the world's realms, biomes and ecoregions - the Centre, 2008 and Jenkins and Joppa, 2009 Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system, Biological Conservation 142 (2009), pp. 2166-2174, using the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World. However, data handling procedures differ between these analyses, resulting in differences in the protection statistics reported. Here we outline differences in the use of datasets, present alternative analyses of the protected area coverage of WWF realms, biomes and ecoregions for 2009, and compare the two estimates of protected area coverage.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2010
Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: A State of Knowledge Review
Two 'state of knowledge' reviews were commissioned to explore the evidence base for two common assumptions about the link between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: 1) that the poor depend on biodiversity; and 2) that biodiversity conservation can be a mechanism for poverty reduction. These attempt to tease apart the issues of what type of poverty and what type of biodiversity are being assessed.
Review
1 Jan 2010
Linking the Thematic Programmes of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to Poverty Reduction and Development
This report presents an analysis of the extent to which poverty considerations are integrated in the seven thematic Programmes of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Report
1 Jan 2010
Look Both Ways: Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction. IIED Briefing Paper
Policy briefing explaining how biodiversity can be mainstreamed into development in a series of six steps.
Briefing
1 Jan 2010
Biodiversity Targets After 2010
The bold commitment made by the world's governments to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010 will soon be tested. On the basis of the continuing declines measured by most indicators, it now seems inevitable that the outcome will be that it has not been achieved. Here, in order to build on the momentum created by the 2010 target, we propose a shift away from a large set of static targets towards a smaller number of specific targets. Specifically, we present three categories of targets (red, green and blue) with examples of each. These relate respectively to (1) those biodiversity outcomes that must be avoided to avert situations that are deleterious for people, (2) the highly valued biodiversity conservation priorities, and (3) an improved scientific understanding necessary for adaptive management now and into the future.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2010
Biodiversity Indicators and the 2010 Biodiversity Target: Outputs, Experiences and Lessons Learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
CBD Technical Series 53 This report summarises the experiences and lessons learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP), as well as providing details of 27 global indicators developed in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 2010 Biodiversity Target.
Report
1 Jan 2010
The impacts of biofuel production on biodiversity: A review of the current literature
State of knowledge on the biodiversity impacts of biofuel production.
Review
1 Dec 2009
Carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: Exploring co-benefits Honduras
This resources outlines an initial illustrative study of the relationship between carbon and biodiversity in Honduras.
Climate and carbonReport
1 Nov 2009
Developing and Mainstreaming Ecosystem Service Indicators Workshop
Developing and mainstreaming ecosystem service indicators for human wellbeing: gaps, opportunities and next steps.
Report
22 Sept 2009
Biodiversity Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals
The CBD target "to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss" was incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals in 2002. Our lack of progress toward the 2010 target could undermine achievement of the MDGs and poverty reduction in the long term. With increasing global challenges, such as population growth, climate change, and overconsumption of ecosystem services, we need further integration of the poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation agendas.
Business and financeClimate and carbonReportDOI
7 Sept 2009
Gap analysis for the purpose of facilitating the discussions on how to improve and strengthen the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services
This gap analysis outlines six key findings, ranging from the complexity of science-policy interfaces to the lack of coordination between the many stakeholders in covering the broad spectrum of biodiversity and ecosystem services in a comprehensive manner, which are essential for effective policymaking in the development field.
Report
18 Aug 2009
Progress Towards the Convention on Biological Diversity Terrestrial 2010 and Marine 2012 Targets for Protected Area Coverage
In the past few years, a number of analyses have been undertaken to measure progress towards the 2010 and 2012 CBD targets. This report demonstrates how the measurement of progress is influenced by decisions on which protected areas are included (for instance, whether internationally designated sites, or sites without an assigned IUCN category are included) and which biogeographic datasets used (for instance which mountain dataset is chosen), and highlights the need for standardised methods and datasets.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReport
30 Jun 2009
Progress the Towards CBD Terrestrial 2010 and, Marine 2012 Targets for Protected Area Coverage
In the past few years, a number of analyses have been undertaken to measure progress towards the 2010 and 2012 CBD targets. This report demonstrates how the measurement of progress is influenced by decisions on which protected areas are included (for instance, whether internationally designated sites, or sites without an assigned IUCN category are included) and which biogeographic datasets used (for instance which mountain dataset is chosen), and highlights the need for standardised methods and datasets.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReport
30 Jun 2009
The Ecological Representativeness of the Global Protected Areas Estate in 2009: Progress Towards the CBD 2010 Target
The Convention on Biological Diversity has established a global target for the protection of 10% of each of the world's ecological regions by 2010. This report uses the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World and the 2009 version of the World Database of Protected Areas to analyse progress towards achieving this politically established conservation goal across the world.
Protected and conserved areasReport
30 Jun 2009
A Global Perspective on Trends in Nature-Based Tourism
Reports of rapid growth in nature-based tourism and recreation add significant weight to the economic case for biodiversity conservation but seem to contradict widely voiced concerns that people are becoming increasingly isolated from nature. This study looking at temporal trends in visitor numbers at 280 protected areas from 20 countries.
Protected and conserved areasReportDOI
29 Jun 2009
Preconditions for Harmonization Of Reporting to Biodiversity-Related Multilateral Environmental Agreements
This paper outlines the preconditions for harmonization of national reporting to help countries understand the rationale for and challenges to harmonization of national reporting.
Report
31 May 2009
Multiple Benefits â - Issues And Options For REDD
This paper provides an overview of the issues surrounding, and opportunities for achieving, multiple benefits from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD).
Forests and restorationReport
27 May 2009
One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity
This study identified 100 scientific questions that, if answered, would have the greatest impact on conservation practice and policy. Representatives from 21 international organizations, regional sections and working groups of the Society for Conservation Biology, and 12 academics, from all continents except Antarctica, compiled 2291 questions of relevance to conservation of biological diversity worldwide.
ReportDOI
8 May 2009
Submarine Cables and the Oceans: Connecting the World
The Centre in collaboration with the International Cable Protection Committee and UNEP has prepared a new report which provides an objective, factual description of the sub-marine cable industry and the interaction of submarine telecommunications (which route 95% of all international communications traffic) with the marine environment. This important report seeks to focus and guide deliberations and decision making on the wise conservation and protection of the oceans in concert with their sustainable management and use.
Marine and coastsGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
1 Jan 2009
Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity
The Centre has provided technical support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to conduct a major study of more than 300 scientific literatures to synthesize the observed and predicted impacts of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2009
Carbon, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-Benefits Tanzania
This report maps the distribution of carbon stocks in relation to the distribution of the possible co-benefits of REDD, including other ecosystem services such as biodiversity or non-timber forest products. Other relevant factors such as protected area distribution and fire occurrence are also compared with carbon stocks.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2009
Carbon Markets and Forest Conservation: A Review of the Environmental Benefits of REDD Mechanisms
This report considers the measures that might promote environmental co-benefits from REDD. Such measures may be linked to decisions on financing. The report surveys the measures that are found in existing REDD initiatives, including in the proposed UNFCCC REDD mechanism itself. It considers the options and opportunities for how these measures might be amended and developed in the future.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReview
1 Jan 2009
Climate change and marine diseases: The socio-economic impact
Impacts of climate change on marine disease
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2009
The Environmental Food Crisis: The Environment's Role in Averting Future Food Crises
A UNEP rapid response assessment
Spatial planning and dataAgriculture and foodReport
1 Jan 2009
Coverage of Protected Areas: Guidance for National and Regional Use
This guidance document is one of a series produced with the support of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP) to assist Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to track their progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target. Coverage of Protected Areas has been selected as one of the indicators suitable for assessing progress towards and communicating the 2010 Target at the global level.
Protected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2009
Do Increases in Agricultural Yield Spare Land for Nature?
This article investigates the relationship between the change in the combined energy yield of the 23 most energetically important food crops over the period 1979-1999 and the change in per capita cropland area for 124 countries over the same period. The results show that land-sparing is a weak process that occurs under a limited set of circumstances, but that it can have positive outcomes for the conservation of wild nature.
Agriculture and foodReportDOI
1 Jan 2009
Capturing the Many Dimensions of Threat: Comment on Salafsky et al.
The causes of biodiversity loss are complex, so it is easy for the ways conservationists classify them to be misinterpreted.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2009
Impacts of Ocean Fertilization on Marine Biodiversity
This report presents a review and synthesis of existing literature and other scientific information on the potential impacts of ocean fertilization on marine biodiversity, pursuant to CBD COP 9 decision IX/20, paragraph 3. The final report takes into consideration comments and feedback submitted by Parties, other Governments, and organizations as well as the inputs from international scientific experts, who kindly peer-reviewed the report.
Marine and coastsReview
1 Jan 2009
Disentangling the Links Between Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Practice
Biodiversity conservation is increasingly expected to reduce poverty where the two coincide. Yet conservation and poverty are multifaceted concepts and the linkages between them are complex and variable; whether and how conservation contributes to poverty reduction in practice will depend on the specific nature of those linkages.To unravel this complexity we explored the portfolio of Fauna & Flora International, an international conservation organization operating in some of the poorest countries and regions. We examined reports from 88 projects and categorized the rationales, approaches and outcomes of a sample of 34 livelihoods-focused projects.
ReportDOI
13 Oct 2008
CITES and the livelihoods of the poor
Reconciling conservation and poverty reduction
Species and wildlifeReportDOI
30 Sept 2008
Working Toward High Seas Marine Protected Areas: An Assessment of Progress Made and Recommendations for Collaboration (2008)
The purpose of this report is threefold: ( 1 ) to summarise current efforts aimed at protecting marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction; (2) identify the knowledge gaps that still exist; and (3) initiate a collaborative effort among stakeholders in the ocean community to implement high seas marine protected areas (HSMPAs) using globally adopted scientific criteria. The recommendations that resulted from this analysis are based on a review of projects, organisations and initiatives addressing the high seas as well as an assessment of the current content, scope, and focus of known and accessible databases related to high seas biodiversity. From this we determine gaps, outline current knowledge, and contribute further insights and approaches relevant for the identification and establishment of protected areas beyond national jurisdictions.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReview
30 Sept 2008
Measuring Social Impacts in Conservation: Experience in Using the Most Significant Change Method
Here we describe a method for standardizing the collection and analysis of stories of change that originated in, and is commonly employed by, the development sector. Trials of the use of the Most Significant Change method in a range of Fauna & Flora International's partnership projects revealed not only its value as a monitoring tool alongside more familiar surveys and quantitative data collection but also as a participatory management tool that improved staff capacity and project adaptive management and responsiveness.
Governance and capacityReportDOI
30 Sept 2008
Toward Representative Protection of the World's Coasts And Oceans - Progress, Gaps, and Opportunities
Marine conservation lags behind terrestrial in the establishment of protected areas. This was recognized by the Convention on Biological Diversity, whose members, in 2004, agreed to establish "comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative" systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2012. Halfway toward this target date, we look at the coverage of the world's 5,045 MPAs from a biogeographic perspective.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReportDOI
23 Sept 2008
Distribution and Conservation Status of the Orang-Utan ( Pongo Spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: How Many Remain?
Overview of the status of the Sumatran orang-utan
ReportDOI
22 Sept 2008
Carbon Emissions from Forest Loss in Protected Areas
This study combines the best available data on carbon stocks and deforestation with protected area data to estimate the area of forest loss within the protected area network of the humid tropical forest biome during 2000-2005.
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationReport
31 Aug 2008
Assessing Progress Towards Global Marine Protection Targets: Shortfalls in Information and Action
The objective of this study was to collect data to enable more effective monitoring of marine protected areas in relation to four stated requirements of the three global targets: (1) distribution and coverage, (2) network characteristics, as defined by available information on larval dispersal distances, (3) representativeness, and (4) growth of the network over time. Here we present a global review of the current status of the world's marine protected areas, with explicit reference to the three global targets, as well as a preliminary quantitative assessment of the feasibility of the targets. We discuss these results, their implications and their limitations, and the role of large-scale targets in advancing marine conservation.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReviewDOI
9 Jul 2008
An elephant survey in Digya National Park, Ghana, and implications for conservation and management
The elephant is a ‘keystone’ species that plays a piv-otal role in structuring both plant and animal commu-nities (Dublin 1995; Stiles 2004) and often dominates mammal biomass in the habitats it occupies (White 1994). West Africa shelters the smallest and most frag-mented elephant (Loxodonta africana) populations on the African continent (Blanc et al. 2007)...
Forests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReport
29 Jun 2008
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Global Land-Use Implications
Research is needed into selection of priority areas for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) to deliver multiple benefits, on-the-ground methods to best ensure these benefits, and minimization of displaced land-use change into non-target countries and ecosystems, including through revised conservation investments.
Business and financeForests and restorationReportDOI
12 Jun 2008
China Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Situation Analysis and Research Strategy Final Report
This report, commissioned by NERC/ESRC/DfID, presents key findings in four sections of a situation analysis and research strategy for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in China.
Report
22 May 2008
The Costs and Benefits of Forest Protected Areas for Local Livelihoods: A Review of the Current Literature
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the impact of protected area management on local communities with the aim of informing future protected area and REDD policy.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationReview
20 May 2008
Protected Areas: An Effective Tool to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries?
This report outlines evidence that suggests that the creation of a protected area network that incorporates all levels of protection, as appropriate for the situation at site level, could be a valuable component of a national REDD strategy.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasForests and restorationReport
15 May 2008
Global Ecological Forest Classification and Forest Protected Area Gap Analysis: Analyses and Recommendations in view of the 10% target for forest protection under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
This study assesses the global gaps in forest conservation with reference to the target of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which calls for the effective conservation of "at least 10% of the world's forest types" by 2010 (decision VIII/15). The results are expected to guide forest conservation policies and planning at national and international levels.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationSpatial planning and dataGuidance
30 Apr 2008
GLOBIO3: A Framework to Investigate Options for Reducing Global Terrestrial Biodiversity Loss
The GLOBIO3 model has been developed to assess human-induced changes in biodiversity, in the past, present, and future at regional and global scales. The model is built on simple cause–effect relationships between environmental drivers and biodiversity impacts, based on state-of-the-art knowledge. The mean abundance of original species relative to their abundance in undisturbed ecosystems (MSA) is used as the indicator for biodiversity.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityFrameworkDOI
24 Apr 2008
Private Protected Areas: Management Regimes, Tenure Arrangements and Protected Area Categorization
This review examines the challenges of developing protected area categorization beyond the traditional state-led model. We review private protected areas in Kenya and Tanzania, exploring their tenure, the nature of the private sector organizations managing them, and the extent of control exercised within them. Drawing on this we develop a working typology with the aim to encourage further discourse amongst the conservation community on the emerging phenomenon of private protected areas.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasReviewDOI
14 Apr 2008
Deep-Sea Biodiversity and Ecosystems - a Scoping Report on their Socio-Economy, Management and Governance
This report scopes new ways and perspectives for identifying where vulnerable deep sea and high sea ecosystems occur; what goods they provide; and how they are affected or threatened by existing or emerging human activities and climate change.
Climate and carbonGovernance and capacityReview
1 Feb 2008
Carbon and biodiversity: a demonstration atlas
The 24 page demonstration atlas, launched at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, shows that areas high in both carbon and biodiversity do exist and can be identified by relatively simple mapping tools.
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Jan 2008
The World's Protected Areas: Status, Value and Prospects in the 21st Century
Based on input from more than 100 experts, this book aims to provide the most detailed assessment ever of the worldwide distribution and conservation status of national parks and reserves.
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2008
National and Regional Networks of Marine Protected Areas: A Review of Progress
This report aims to promote a better understanding of the underlying principals and scientific basis behind MPA network design, while disseminating experiences and lessons learned from the initiatives underway at regional national and sub-national levels.
Protected and conserved areasMarine and coastsReview
1 Jan 2008
Carbon Storage in Protected Areas
This report examines the carbon storage function of protected areas as a contribution to strategies for reducing emissions from land use change. In particular, it is relevant to discussions surrounding reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Protected and conserved areasClimate and carbonForests and restorationFramework
1 Jan 2008
Carbon in Drylands: Desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance
Carbon sequestration in dryland ecosystems
Business and financeClimate and carbonReport
1 Jan 2008
Management Effectiveness Evaluation in Protected Areas - A Global Study
These reports (2008, 2010) outline the purpose of management effectiveness evaluation and present the findings of an investigation into management effectiveness evaluation conducted across the world.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2008
CMS Analysis and Synthesis of National Reports COP 9
Overview of the status of implementation of the Convention on Migratory Species as of COP 9 in 2008.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2008
State of the World's Protected Areas 2007
The report highlights achievements made in protected areas around the world during 2007.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2008
Defining Protected Areas International Conference Almeria 2007
The IUCN Summit on Protected Area Management Categories was held in Almeria, Spain in May 2007. It aimed to test the opinions of key thinkers and policy makers regarding the revision of guidelines to interpretation of the six IUCN protected area categories.
Protected and conserved areasGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2008
Forest Certification: How Do Latin American Standards Address Biodiversity?
CBD Technical Series No. 34 The main objective of this study is to compare forest certification standards of Latin America to analyse how the standards address the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The secondary objective of the study is to use the analysis to determine which forest areas certified under the different schemes would be used within the calculation of the 2010 biodiversity indicator, 'Area of forest under sustainable management'. The study analyses forest certification standards from FSC, PEFC, SCS, and SmartWood for seven Latin American countries.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2008
Potential impact of climate change and reindeer density on tundra indicator species in the Barents Sea region
This article estimates the potential impacts of climate change on tundra species.
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
19 Dec 2007
Towards an Integrated System for Measuring the Social Impact of Protected Areas: A Discussion Document
This brief review outlines the strong need for gathering reliable data on the livelihoods impacts of protected areas, and illustrates some of the approaches being taken. It notes that the question of social benefits of protected areas for local people is only a part of the issue at hand.
Protected and conserved areasBriefingReview
1 Nov 2007
Conservation Data for Smarter Business Decisions
National Parks and other protected areas not only provide a safe haven for biodiversity, they provide benefits to local communities and preserve some of the most beautiful places on our planet. Coverage of protected areas is also a specific indicator in the 2010 Target of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Obtaining the data necessary to monitor trends in protected areas requires a massive effort by national authorities to compile, analyse and then distribute this data to the centralised depository of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). With a living and growing system of protected areas that now exceed 100,000 sites covering 19 million square kilometres, you can imagine that this is no small task!
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasReport
2 Sept 2007
Mangroves of Western and Central Africa
This report presents a country profile for 19 countries of West and Central Africa, considering the status, distribution, biodiversity, uses, threats and drivers of change for their mangroves.
Report
31 May 2007
The Last Stand of the Orangutan - State of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia's national parks
The Last Stand of the Orangutan was prepared by a Rapid Response Team at UNEP/GRID-Arendal and the Centre as a broad collaborative effort, involving contributors from the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia, and partners of the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP).
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2007
A spatial analysis approach to the global delineation of dryland areas of relevance to the CBD Programme of Work on Dry and Subhumid Lands
This study uses a GIS spatial analysis at a global scale to provisionally delineate the areas that the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme of Work on Dry and Subhumid Lands, and hence also the Joint Work Programme, encompasses.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2007
Global Environment Outlook 4 (GEO-4): Environment for Development
The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides a comprehensive, scientifically credible, policy-relevant and up-to-date assessment of, and outlook for, the state of the global environment.
Spatial planning and dataOutlook
1 Jan 2007
Achieving Multiple Benefits through a UNFCCC Mechanism on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
This abstract outlines how an effective RED mechanism could contribute towards the goals of a range of multilateral environmental agreements and mechanisms, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Forests and restorationAccess and benefit sharingReport
1 Jan 2007
Sourcebook on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Indicators
While remote sensing may represent the best way to measure characteristics of change over large areas, the accuracy of a given remotely sensed product may not be high enough for certain applications and for particular users. We address this and other questions while presenting the overall role that remote sensing can play for developing and monitoring biodiversity indicators relevant to various strategic components of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2007
People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
This paper explores the political ecology of conservation, particularly the establishment of PAs. It discusses the implications of the idea of pristine nature, the social impacts of and the politics of PA establishment and the way the benefits and costs of PAs are allocated. It considers three key political issues in contemporary international conservation policy: the rights of indigenous people, the relationship between biodiversity conservation and the reduction of poverty, and the arguments of those advocating a return to conventional PAs that exclude people.
Report
1 Jan 2007
Entrepreneurship in Value Chains of Non-Timber Forest Products
The paper presents an analysis of the non-timber forest product (NTFP)1commercialisation using value chain analysis as used, e.g. by Gereffi (1999). The analysis is useful in determining the importance of key individuals in driving entrepreneurship and innovation in the market for NTFPs.
Forests and restorationReportDOI
30 Sept 2006
Our Precious Coasts - Marine Pollution, Climate Change and the Resilience of Coastal Ecosystems
The ability of coral reefs to survive in a globally-warming world may crucially depend on the levels of pollution to which they are exposed. Scientists studying reefs that were bleached in the late 1990s by high surface sea temperatures have found a link between recovery rates and the levels of contamination entering coastal waters from developments on the land.
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReport
28 Apr 2006
Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction
This paper highlights an important source of uncertainty in assessments of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and emphasize that model predictions should be interpreted in policy-guiding applications along with a full appreciation of uncertainty.
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
12 Apr 2006
Coral Reefs and Mangroves: Implications from the Tsunami One Year On
The countries affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami contain the most diverse and extensive coral reefs and mangroves of the Indian Ocean, and some of the richest in the world. Not only are these ecosystems among the most threatened in the world, they also provide numerous essential ecosystem services.It is thus not surprising that reefs and mangroves received widespread attention after the tsunami, with three principal questions posed: Are the tsunami's impacts on reefs and mangroves a further threat to their future survival? Did reefs and mangroves play a role in shoreline protection and reduce structural damage and human mortality? How could reconstruction efforts include actions to maintain these ecosystems and reduce further threats to them?
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
31 Mar 2006
Non-Timber Forest Products in Uganda: Spatial Tools Supporting Sustainable Development
This report describes a new map-based approach to defining areas best suited for NTFP commercialization. Uganda is used as a case study. As one of the most rapidly growing economies in Africa, its rich natural heritage highlights the conflict between national development efforts and the need for a globally responsible approach to biodiversity conservation.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataCase study
1 Mar 2006
A Global Overview of the Conservation Status of Tropical Dry Forests
To analyse the conservation status of tropical dry forests at the global scale, by combining a newly developed global distribution map with spatial data describing different threats, and to identify the relative exposure of different forest areas to such threats.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
6 Feb 2006
In the front line: Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs.
The publication aims to help decision and policy makers around the world understand the importance of coastal habitats to humans, focusing on the role of coral reefs and mangroves.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2006
Commercialization of Non-Timber Forest Products: Factors Influencing Success. Lessons Learned from Mexico and Bolivia and Policy Implications for Decision-Makers.
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been widely promoted as a potential solution to high rates of tropical deforestation, by increasing the value of forest resources to local people. The content of this book is based around findings from a DFID/FRP funded international research project that has examined why commercialisation of NTFPs does not consistently contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equality and sustainable resource management.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2006
Seamounts, Deep-Sea Corals and Fisheries: Vulnerability of Deep-Sea Corals to Fishing on Seamounts Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction
This report, compiled by an international group of leading experts working under the Census of Marine Life programme, responds to these calls. It provides a fascinating insight into what we know about seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries, and uses the latest facts and figures to predict the existence and vulnerability of seamount communities in areas for which we have no or only insufficient information.
Marine and coastsReport
1 Jan 2006
Assessing Biodiversity Impacts of Trade: A Review of Challenges in the Agriculture Sector
This paper reviews the need for assessing impacts of trade on biodiversity in the agriculture sector, taking into account the linkages among biodiversity, farming and poverty alleviation and the scale of impacts from agriculture on ‘important biodiversity’. It summarises some of the ways in which trade-related policies, agreements and measures can act as drivers for impacts of agriculture on biodiversity, and then sets out some key considerations for biodiversity-inclusive trade policies.
Trade and supply chainsAgriculture and foodReview
1 Jan 2006
Use of a Bayesian Belief Network to Predict the Impacts of Commercializing Non-timber Forest Products on Livelihoods
A probabilistic model based on a livelihood framework, enabling the impact of NTFP commercialization on livelihoods to be predicted.
Forests and restorationGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Jan 2006
Andhra Pradesh Forestry Project: Forest Restoration and Joint Forest Management in India
The overarching goals of the project are to increase the productivity and quality of forests, protect the environment, alleviate poverty, and strengthen and streamline the policies of the forestry sector.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2006
Bamboo Diversity: The Need for a Red List Review
This review focuses on woody bamboos with the highest diversity recorded in the Asia-Pacific region where bamboos play a major role in ecosystem dynamics in many forests.The genetic diversity of the remaining forest bamboos, of which many are highly susceptible to deforestation, is of great concern and an accurate information base is required as a foundation for policy and management decisions affecting bamboo. A programme to strengthen the Red List assessments of bamboo species status is also needed, one that prioritizes the assessment of species with the smallest estimated geographical ranges and least remaining habitat.
Forests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Jan 2006
The Living Planet Index: Using Species Population Time Series to Track Trends in Biodiversity
Paper outlining two methods of calculating the Living Planet index.
Species and wildlifeReportDOI
27 Mar 2005
GIS Assessment of the Status of Protected Areas in East Asia
The study reviews the situation regarding Protected Area extent, legal status and management constraints in each country and territory of East Asia, using a regional review and gap analysis by applying a simple GIS overlay approach. The adequacy of the regional PA system is examined from a variety of viewpoints.
Protected and conserved areasSpatial planning and dataReview
1 Mar 2005
Measuring the Extent and Effectiveness of Protected Areas as an Indicator for Meeting Global Biodiversity Targets
This paper reviews the current global extent of protected areas in terms of geopolitical and habitat coverage, and considers their value as a global indicator of conservation action or response. The paper discusses the role of the World Database on Protected Areas and collection and quality control issues, and identifies areas for improvement, including how conservation effectiveness indicators may be included in the database to improve the value of protected areas data as an indicator for meeting global biodiversity targets.
Protected and conserved areasReportDOI
28 Feb 2005
Biodiversity Trends in Europe: Development and Testing of a Species Trend Indicator for Evaluating Progress Towards the 2010 Target
This paper presents a trial of a species population trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe, using existing data. The indicator integrates trends on different species (groups), and can be aggregated across habitats and countries. Thus, the indicator can deliver both headline messages for high-level decision-making and detailed information for in-depth analysis, using data from different sources, collected with different methods.
Species and wildlifeReportDOI
8 Feb 2005
World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation
This atlas provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about all six species of great apes - chimpanzee, bonobo, Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, eastern gorilla, and western gorilla.
Species and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2005
The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target
Governments are often accused of responding only to short-term and parochial considerations. It is therefore remarkable that representatives of 190 countries recently committed themselves at the Convention on Biological Diversity to reducing biodiversity loss. This presents conservation biologists with perhaps their greatest challenge of the decade. The authors of this Policy Forum describe approaches to identifying more of the earth's biological diversity; understanding how biological, geophysical, and geochemical processes interact; and presenting scientific knowledge in time to contribute to and achieve the 2010 target.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2005
Increasing Isolation of Protected Areas in Tropical Forests Over the Past Twenty Years
Protected areas are one of the cornerstones for conserving the world's remaining biodiversity, most of which occurs in tropical forests. We use multiple sources of satellite data to estimate the extent of forest habitat and loss over the last 20 years within and surrounding 198 of the most highly protected areas (IUCN status 1 and 2) located throughout the world's tropical forests. In the early 1980s, surrounding habitat in the 50-km unprotected or less highly protected ''buffers'' enhanced the protected areas' effective size and their capacity to conserve richness of forest-obligate species above the hypothetical case of complete isolation. However, in nearly 70% of the surrounding buffers, the area of forest habitat declined during the last 20 years, while 25% experienced declines within their administrative boundaries. The loss of habitat occurred in all tropical regions, but protected areas in South and Southeast Asia were most severely affected because of relatively low surrounding forest habitat in the early 1980s and high subsequent loss, particularly in dry tropical forests. The future ability of protected areas to maintain current species richness depends on integrating reserve management within the land use dynamics of their larger regional settings.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2005
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis
More than 1,360 scientists contributed to the Millennium Assessment which was initiated in 2001 under the auspices of the United Nations. This report presents a synthesis and integration of the findings concerning biodiversity contained in the reports of the four MA Working Groups (Condition and Trends, Scenarios, Responses, and Sub-global Assessments).
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2005
Bidoversity Indicators for National Use: Experience and Guidance
This collaborative project, sponsored by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and others, developed biodiversity indicators to support planning and decision-making at the national level in four participating countries. In each country national partners developed and tested several indicators for a single focal ecosystem, using an iterative process of consultation, inventory and synthesis of existing data.The BINU project has launched this 20-page booklet on its experience and lessons learned in developing biodiversity indicators for national use.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityGuidance
1 Jan 2005
The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia
Long-term trends in plant species distributions in response to predicted changes in global climate
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
24 Oct 2004
Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply)
Climate change represents a major threat to terrestrial species
Climate and carbonForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
30 Jun 2004
Extinction risk from climate change
Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, this paper assesses extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface.
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
8 Jan 2004
Cloud Forest Agenda
This report provides the first global maps of cloud forests, a regional analysis of the threats facing these forests and information on their biodiversity and watershed importance.
Forests and restorationSpatial planning and dataReportDOI
1 Jan 2004
Cold-water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight - No Longer Out of Mind
This report presents comprehensive and up-to-date information and data on marine cold water coral reefs from around the world.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2004
The fall of water
Emerging threats to the water resources and biodiversity at the roof of the world to Asia's lowland from land-use changes associated with large-scale settlement and piecemeal development.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2004
Environmental Risks from Agriculture in Europe
Locating environmental risk zones in Europe using agri-environmental indicators
Agriculture and foodReport
1 Jan 2004
Speaking a Common Language: Uses and performance of the IUCN System of Management Categories for Protected Areas (2004)
This report provides an overview of the use of Management Categories for Protected Areas. It looks at the emergence of the system of protected area management categories, the original purposes of the system and new uses being made of it. Suggestions are made as to how the system can be used more effectively. Finally there is a set of recommendations, along with a vision as to the place of the categories in the future.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2004
Protected Areas and Biodiversity: An Overview of Key Issues
Protected Areas and Biodiversity: An Overview of Key Issues synthesizes key aspects in the development of protected areas: the level of international commitment, the relationship of protected areas to sustainable development, and critical issues related to their effectiveness. This publication has been compiled by the Secretariat of the CBD and the Centre as an input to the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2004
Review of the World Heritage Network: Biogeography, Habitats and Biodiversity
Over the past 10 years a number of studies and consultations have been carried out to develop and refine the Global Strategy for achieving a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List that reflects the world's diverse heritage. This review is an important addition to that process, focusing on the inter-related elements of biogeography, habitats and biological diversity that underpin much of what we consider a 'natural heritage'.
Review
1 Jan 2004
Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean
The Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean project was launched to help protect and restore these valuable, threatened ecosystems by providing decision-makers and the public with information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively.
Marine and coastsForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2004
Bamboo Biodiversity: Africa, Madagascar and the Americas
The Centre Biodiversity series 19 The Bamboo Diversity Report represents the first step towards planning and implementing conservation and sustainable management of bamboos in the wild, in addition to making a significant contribution to the implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which aims to halt the current and continuing loss of plant diversity. This study is the result of a collaboration between INBAR and the Centre.
Spatial planning and dataGovernance and capacityReport
1 Jan 2004
Where are the Major Gaps in the Reserve Network for Africa's Mammals?
A fully comprehensive network of areas for the conservation of African mammals, especially those facing extinction, is not yet in place, and further reserves may be needed in the Horn of Africa (Somalia in particular), the Cameroon Highlands, parts of the eastern African coastal forests and Eastern Arc Mountains, and parts of the Albertine Rift Mountains. More and larger reserve areas are also required to adequately cover all the species of South Africa. Parts of these gaps are already covered by government forest reserves, and the importance of this reserve category for the conservation of African mammals, especially threatened species, needs to be better recognized.
Marine and coastsForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
1 Jan 2004
Distribution and conservation status of forest bamboo biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific Region
Research on the distribution and conservation status of forest bamboo biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Forests and restorationReportDOI
31 Aug 2003
Global Climate Change and Biodiversity
This summary report from the international conference on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity presents some of the latest scientific research into how the natural world is being affected by climate change - and also how the natural world might respond in the future.
Climate and carbonReport
31 Mar 2003
World Atlas of Seagrasses
A collaboration of more than 50 authors from 25 nations, the World Atlas of Seagrasses summarises the opinion and science of the world's leading experts on the global status of the ecosystem.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2003
From Ocean to Aquarium: the global trade in marine ornamental species
From Ocean to Aquarium is the product of a collaboration between the Centre, the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC) and the industry itself. It is the first of its kind, examining issues surrounding the trade of live coral, fish and invertebrates for the marine aquarium trade, and presenting a comprehensive and independent synthesis of related information.
Marine and coastsTrade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2003
2003 United Nations List of Protected Areas
The 2003 UN List of Protected Areas, the thirteenth produced since 1962, records the global community's endeavour to conserve the Earth's natural places. This is the first version to attempt a comprehensive presentation of all the world's known protected areas, listing 102,102 sites covering 18.8 million sq km compared to just over 1,000 protected areas in 1962.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 2003
Global Marine Assessments: A survey of global and regional assessments and related scientific activities of the marine environment
These reports lay out the components of an effective assessment and summarize the key considerations for establishing an assessment process.
Marine and coastsSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2003
World Atlas of Biodiversity
World Atlas of Biodiversity addresses the remarkable growth in concern at all levels for living things and the environment and the increased appreciated of the links between the state of ecosystems and the stat of humankind.
Report
1 Jan 2002
Mountain watch: environmental change & sustainable development in mountains
The Centre Biodiversity Series 12 This report provides the first map-based overview of environmental change in mountain regions and its implications for sustainable development.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2002
Great Apes - The Road Ahead
This report assesses the impact of infrastructural development on great ape populations, using the GLOBIO modelling approach. GLOBIO is a multivariable spatial model, which estimates the extent of land area with reduced abundance and diversity of living organisms, as a result of infrastructural development. The model can also be used to develop scenarios of possible future impacts, based on the current rates of infrastructural development.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2002
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of remaining natural habitats has continued largely unabated. However, evidence has been accumulating that such systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued habitat conversion. We estimate that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1.
ReportDOI
1 Jan 2002
World Atlas of Coral Reefs
The World Atlas of Coral Reefs provides the first detailed and definitive account of the state of our planet's coral reefs. With its wealth of authoritative and up-to-date information, the finest maps available, and its detailed descriptive texts and images by leading experts, this full-color volume will be a critical resource for everyone interested in these vital environments.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2001
Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife
A series of case studies highlighting the observed changes in species and ecosystems resulting from a changing climate.
Climate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeCase study
1 Jan 2001
Reefs at Risk in South East Asia
The Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia project is a follow-up to the global Reefs at Risk analysis completed in 1998.
Report
1 Jan 2001
Forest Biodiversity Indicators. Tools for Policy-making and Management
This is a brief introduction to biodiversity indicators in a forest environment: their definition, source, presentation and uses.
Forests and restorationBriefing
1 Jan 2001
A Global Overview of Protected Areas on the World Heritage List of Particular Importance for Biodiversity
This overview identifies 141 natural and mixed World Heritage sites of particular importance for biodiversity. They represent 64 countries and over 142 million hectares of protected areas. It also identifies 94 existing protected areas (ranked according to increasing levels of biodiversity value), that may merit future World Heritage nomination.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Nov 2000
Prioritisation of Target Areas for Forest Restoration
This report for WWF and IUCN shows how GIS can be used to prioritise areas for forest restoration. Candidate social and ecological criteria are identified at a regional level. The Mediterranean region is used as a case study
Forests and restorationCase study
5 Jan 2000
Climate change and coral bleaching
Coral reefs are highly sensitive to climatic influences, exhibiting the phenomenon known as coral bleaching.
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 2000
Water birds on the edge: First circumpolar assessment of climate change impact on Arctic breeding water birds
This analysis demonstrates the likely impact of climate change on Arctic waterbirds.
Climate and carbonSpatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 2000
BCIS Framework for Information Sharing
The handbooks deal with a range of issues and processes relevant to the use of information in decision-making, including the strengthening of organisations and organisational linkages, data custodianship and management, metadata and the development of infrastructure to support data and information exchange.
Governance and capacityFramework
1 Jan 2000
Decision Time for Cloud Forests
Decision Time for Cloud Forests is an illustrated introduction to the different types of cloud forests, their hydrology, biodiversity and the threats to them.
Forests and restorationReport
1 Jan 2000
Threat From Deforestation to Montane and Lowland Birds and Mammals in Insular Southeast Asia
A reduction in forest area should result in a reduction of its number of species and, moreover, do so in a characteristic way according to the familiar species-area relationship. Brooks, Pimm & Collar (1997) applied this formula to the losses in forest area in the Philippines and Indonesia. Independently derived totals of the number of endemic bird species that are threatened with extinction broadly agree with these predicted losses. In some cases, however, predicted losses overestimate or underestimate the actual numbers of threatened species.
Forests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
22 Jan 1999
The Global Trade in Coral
This study assesses the global trade in coral in an ecological and economic context.
Trade and supply chainsReport
1 Jan 1999
Forests in Flux. Climate change: the threats to world forests
This report considers predictions for global climate change and the general scientific principles underlying the interaction between vegetation and climate, before moving on to examine likely scenarios for each forest region.
Climate and carbonForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 1999
A Global Review of Protected Area Budgets and Staff
In 1993 and 1995 the Centre surveyed over 600 protected area agencies throughout the world to obtain data on their budgets and staffing levels.
Protected and conserved areasReview
1 Jan 1999
Feasibility study for a harmonised information management infrastructure for biodiversity-related treaties
This Feasibility Study identified three programmes of work to improve information management: development of a harmonised conventions information resource; streamlined national reporting to facilitate national reporting to, and implementation of the Conventions; and development of a shared lessons-learned network.
Governance and capacityReport
31 Jul 1998
Handbooks on Biodiversity Information Management
The objective of the handbook series is to support policy and management goals aimed at conserving and sustainably using living resources.
Report
1 Jan 1998
1997 United Nations List of Protected Areas
The United Nations List of Protected Areas is an essential reference document for all who want to understand the progress made in responding to the challenges of biodiversity loss and other environmental threats around the world.
Protected and conserved areasReport
1 Jan 1998
Freshwater Biodiversity: A Preliminary Global Assessment
Centre Biodiversity Series 8 This document provides information on inland waters and their biodiversity, and includes the first global assessment of areas of special importance for freshwater biodiversity, based on expert opinion and data. It also includes a first comparative analysis of major river basins, using indicators of biodiversity, the condition of catchment basins and pressures on water resources, in order to generate indices of importance and risk.
Spatial planning and dataReport
1 Jan 1998
New Estimates of Global and Regional Coral Reef Areas
Estimates of reef area are useful for many purposes, in-cluding, for example, the calculation of carbon budgetsand calciï¬cation rates (Smith 1978; De Vooys 1979; Cross-land et al. 1991; Opdyke and Walker 1992; Kleypas inpress), and also the modelling and calculation of ï¬sheriesstatistics (McManus 1989; McManus et al. 1995; Munro1996). The future availability of more accurate estimatesof reef areas at regional, national and local scales willundoubtedly be of further use in such work as coastalresources management, planning and legislation, in thestudy of conservation status and in the establishment ofpriority areas for conservation. Such ï¬gures will alsoprovide a powerful tool in broader studies and modellingof biological and geological processes, including studies ofbiogeography and biodiversity, and the biological andgeological evolution of reefs.
Marine and coastsClimate and carbonSpecies and wildlifeReportDOI
2 Apr 1997
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: An Urgent Priority for Conservation
This report describes a first phase of work on the development of a global database and draft directory of Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF), which are high on the list of the world's most threatened ecosystems.
Forests and restorationReportDOI
1 Jan 1997
World Mangrove Atlas
The World Mangrove Atlas is the first significant attempt to provide an overview of the distribution of mangroves worldwide.
Report
1 Jan 1997
Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity
Centre Biodiversity Series 7
Report
1 Jan 1997
Protected Areas Systems Review of the Indo-Malayan Realm
This report documents the growth and changing character of the protected areas systems of the Indo-Malayan Realm over the ten year period from 1986 to 1996 and updates the Review of the Protected Areas System in the Indo-Malayan Realm published by the lUCN in 1986.
Protected and conserved areasReview
1 Jan 1997
The Diversity of the Seas: A Regional Approach
The major part of this document consists of a region by region presentation of information on different themes central to marine biodiversity management. The regional framework adopted is based on the UNEP Regional Seas programme (see Annex I). Within each regional setting we have assembled information on Large Marine Ecosystems, biodiversity and fisheries issues. Please consult Notes and Sources (p 32) for details of information quality and sources. In further developing this approach it will be desirable to integrate these classes of information more explicitly and more fully, and to consider additional data sets, eg. coastal settlement patterns, cultural factors, non-fishery use of marine resources, other elements of biodiversity, and so on.
Marine and coastsGovernance and capacityFramework
1 Dec 1996
Priorities for Conserving Global Species Richness and Endemism
Centre Biodiversity Series 3 Substantial amounts of detailed biodiversity data exist for the world, and these data can be used to guide conservation priorities. the Centre compiled key data in order to identify areas of high species richness and endemism. This book is made available by kind permission of the UK Department for International Development for whom it was prepared.
Species and wildlifeGovernance and capacityGuidanceDOI
31 May 1996
Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics: Gaps in Habitat Protection and Funding Priorities
Centre Biodiversity series 6 This study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, previously unavailable, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed. Priorities for conservation action are identified on the basis of a country's relative importance for a given habitat and the extent to which it is protected. National importance for biodiversity is also examined in relation to natural and foreign investments in protected areas.
Business and financeProtected and conserved areasForests and restorationReport
1 Jan 1996
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: The Americas (1996)
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forest series was produced under the Tropical Forest Conservation Programme of IUCN, with much of the research, editing and map preparation done at the Centre. The Atlases provide an overview of the status of tropical forests, with discussions on their history, agricultural colonization policies and deforestation, conservation polices for plants and wildlife, protected areas and a country-by-country analysis of status and trends. Although these Atlases were produced in the early 1990s, they still provide a valuable reference source for forest conservationists and researchers.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 1996
Parks or Arks: Where to Conserve Threatened Mammals?
Growing deterministic and stochastic threats to many wild populations of large vertebrates have focused attention on the conservation significance of captive breeding and subsequent reintroduction. However, work on both gorillas and black rhinos questions this shift in emphasis. In these species, field-based conservation can be effective if properly supported and, although this is not cheap, per capita costs may still be considerably lower than for ex situ propagation in captivity.
Species and wildlifeReportDOI
31 Aug 1995
Biodiversity Data Sourcebook
140 pages of tabular data with supporting text and graphics, on global biodiversity.
Report
1 Jan 1994
How much do we know about the current extinction rate?
A journal article investigating knowledge on the current extinction rate.
ReportDOI
30 Sept 1993
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa (1992)
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forest series was produced under the Tropical Forest Conservation Programme of IUCN, with much of the research, editing and map preparation done at the Centre. The Atlases provide an overview of the status of tropical forests, with discussions on their history, agricultural colonization policies and deforestation, conservation polices for plants and wildlife, protected areas and a country-by-country analysis of status and trends. Although these Atlases were produced in the early 1990s, they still provide a valuable reference source for forest conservationists and researchers.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 1992
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia (1991)
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forest series was produced under the Tropical Forest Conservation Programme of IUCN, with much of the research, editing and map preparation done at the Centre. The Atlases provide an overview of the status of tropical forests, with discussions on their history, agricultural colonization policies and deforestation, conservation polices for plants and wildlife, protected areas and a country-by-country analysis of status and trends. Although these Atlases were produced in the early 1990s, they still provide a valuable reference source for forest conservationists and researchers.
Protected and conserved areasForests and restorationSpecies and wildlifeReport
1 Jan 1991
Proteus Technical Brief: Migratory connectivity in the ocean - mitigating threats from offshore activities to migratory marine species
This Proteus Technical Brief provides an overview of the importance of migratory marine species, the threats they face from offshore activities and how these impacts can be addressed.
Marine and coastsSpecies and wildlifeBriefing
EU Wildlife Trade 2021
This report provides a detailed analysis of the trade data submitted by EU Member States and candidate countries in their annual reports to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) for trade that occurred during 2021.
Trade and supply chainsSpecies and wildlifeReport