Natural climate solutions
<p>Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of
Ecosystem Services
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Mainstreaming agrobiodiversity in sustainable food systems: scientific foundations for an agrobiodiversity index
<p>This 200-page report by Biodiversity International provides solid evidence that investments in agrobiodiversity also play a critical yet overlooked role in tackling wider global targets such as reducing poverty and malnutrition, reversing environmental degradation and combatting climate change. It demonstrates that agrobiodiversity can be a more mainstream approach to sustainable development</p>
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Nutrition and food systems: a report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
The purpose of this report is two-fold: to analyse how food systems influence people’s dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes; and to highlight effective policies and programmes that have the potential
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Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale
<p>Research of the past decades has shown that biodiversity promotes ecosystem functions including primary productivity. However, most studies focused on experimental communities at small spatial scales,
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Sustainable land management contribution to successful land-based climate change adaptation and mitigation
The report provides scientifically sound practical guidance for selecting SLM (Sustainable Land Management) practices that help address DLDD (Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought), climate change
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Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate
<p>Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are undocumented. We compiled the most
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Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas: linkages between science, policy and practice
This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS) to climate change adaptation in urban
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Guidelines for conducting Cost Benefit Analysis for projects involving diversion of forest land under the provisions of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980
The economic viability of any development project that involves diversion of forest land may now reduce with the environment ministry coming up with new cost benefit analysis guidelines. The new guidelines
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Heterogeneity in riverine ecosystem service: perceptions insights for water-decision processes in transboundary rivers
The objective of this study is to analyze heterogeneous perceptions of the relative importance of riverine ecosystem services to inform policy decisions. To improve allocation of scarce resources across
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Voluntary guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
FAO has developed new guidelines aimed at helping countries develop strong National Forest Monitoring Systems, which are key to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To fulfil