The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
With climate change now a certainty, the question is now how much change there will be and what can be done about it. One of the answers is through adaptation. Many of the lessons that are being learned in adaptation are from success stories from the field. This publication contains …
This new volume of the CBD Technical Series presents an analysis of the systemic character of global change, biodiversity and human development, and the relationships between them. The report describes and evaluates the complicated relationships and dynamics between human and biological systems. Theoretical concepts, such as complex systems models, are …
Biodiversity and ecosystems are crucial for understanding how the world's natural capital is linked to financial markets. This CEO Briefing underscores the critical natural capital that underpins our economic activity and financial capital. As the finance sector we need to ensure that we operationalise this thinking in the management of …
This paper considers a number of related proposals in the broad area of biodiversity and ecosystems policy currently receiving significant attention from national and international policy makers. The WBCSD is supportive of many of these proposals and drawing on the wealth of experience of its member companies is able to …
This preview of the forthcoming Green Growth, Resources and Resilience report highlights the shifts that have taken place in the outlook for the Asian and Pacific region since 2005. While the region
The Global Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Benefits of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries was held in Nairobi from 20 to 23 September 2010, with the generous financial support from the Government of Germany. It was co-organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity …
This document is presented as a background document for the Global Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Benefits of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, taking place from 20-23 September 2010, in Nairobi. The workshop report will be submitted as an information document to the tenth meeting of …
World leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York next week to discuss progress on two goals said to be complementary: saving species and lifting people out of poverty. Conservationists often claim that efforts to preserve biodiversity can also benefit the people who rely on natural resources for …
Factoring the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into policy-making can help save cities and regional authorities money while boosting the local economy, enhancing quality of life, securing livelihoods and generating employment according to this study released by TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers at the biodiversity conference in Ghent, …
This publication provides background information and a framework for discussing mountain issues in the context of the current climate change dialogue. It synthesizes the state of current knowledge and provides an overview of the evolution and status of the global Mountain agenda from the time it was agreed upon during …
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released "A Brief for Policymakers on the Green Economy and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)," which concludes that investment in clean energy, sustainable transport, forests and environmentally-friendly agriculture is essential to meet the MDGs. The report was launched at the UN Summit on the MDGs, …
This document is a contribution towards a renewed commitment to reverse the rate of loss of biodiversity. It is aimed at the companies and corporations who are either wholly or partly dependent on this key resource or whose activities can be a major impediment to its conservation. This publication provides …
Ecosystem decline and climate change together are altering the rules of development, bringing a new urgency to the MDG agenda. Because ecosystem services typically account for a substantial portion of the incomes of the rural poor, current trends in ecosystem decline threaten the very basis of their household economies. Climate …
BY AMBUJ SAGAR Green growth has become the catchphrase of the decade across the world. It is the new mantra that countries see as a way to have their cake and eat it, too, or to put it differently, grow and have a clean environment, too. I want to use …
Following the decision of the Pre-Tiger Summit Partners Dialogue meeting (Bali, Indonesia, July 12-14, 2010), an initial draft of the program underpinning efforts to help wild tigers recover and double in population over the next twelve years was released on July 31 by the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) Secretariat for …
Climate change poses profound, direct, and well-documented threats to biodiversity. A significant fraction of Earth's species is at risk of extinction due to changing precipitation and temperature regimes, rising and acidifying oceans, and other factors. There is also growing awareness of the diversity and magnitude of responses, both proactive and …
This handbook is a draft stand-alone toolkit for teaching and learning ecological economics through front-line activist experience and knowledge. Is the product of collaborative efforts between environmental activists and ecological economists from around the world belonging to the CEECEC network. This handbook, comprised of 14 chapters and a glossary, is …
The Public Consultations Report on Green India Mission, one of the eight missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change. It has been prepared by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) for the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) On May 24, 2010, the Ministry of Environment & Forests released a …
