Are solutions to biodiversity loss compatible with market forces and our drive for profit, fuelled by increasing levels of credit?

Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been discussed as a potential way to help governments to address deforestation in their countries while contributing to reduce its impact on...  Read More

Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is one of the most diverse biological hotspots in the world, it also has substantial oil reserves which could increase the country's oil exports. However the...  Read More

It is clear now to science the relation between conservation of ecosystems and mitigation and adaptation to climate change. How could this be reflected in the post-2012 climate regime? Is...  Read More

Mining activities are influencing the biodiversity of the eco-systems, but what are the short and long term implications?

How can we share knowledge of and urgency of this issue? What are some things you have been doing to promote the importance of biodiversity?

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World Atlas of Biodiversity addresses the remarkable growth in concern at all levels for living things and the environment and the increased appreciation of the links between the state of...  Read More

The 2006 review of the economics of climate change, chaired by economist Nicholas Stern, served as a wake-up call to the need to respond to long-term climatic risks. Similarly, the...  Read More

Conservation blog (Spanish)

This book focuses exclusively on the health impact of biodiversity loss. This is a welcome departure from other texts that tend to emphasize the financial and ecological consequences of biodiversity...  Read More

Review of the Biodiversity Requirements of Standards and Certifications Schemes - A Snapshot of Current Practice

"The Conference of Parties (COP 10) held in October 2010 in...  Read More

The focus of this report is ecosystem-based markets, so other environmental markets were not included, such as non-forest carbon, water quantity trading, and renewable energy credit trading. In addition we...  Read More

The magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme

The Nature & Poverty Knowledge and Learning Network (Natureandpoverty.net) started off by bringing together 17 Dutch-based conservation, developmental and research organizations. It has now grown out to become a global...  Read More

In this sixth edition of Global Risk the World Economic Forum identifies 37 global risks and determines the nexus between them.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, floods and...  Read More

Global Earth Observations are instrumental to attain sustainable development goals and are major drivers of how the society - technology - environment system is managed. An integrated economic, social and...  Read More