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CEC Members Offer Advice on Communicating PAs and Climate Change
CEC members Frits Hesselink and Susanna Calvo attended the WCPA Climate Change Summit in Granada. They offer some strategic approaches to communicating the importance of protected areas to climate change mitigation.
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30 Nov 2009 | News story
Oceans and Climate Change: View this 6-minute video
This film explains in 6 minutes how the oceans are affected and play a major role in climate change, with a focus on alien species in the Mediterranean. CEC members went abord the vessel used by the Changing Oceans Expedition while docked in Barcelona last October. Shared with CEC by the Antinea team. …
29 Nov 2009 | News story
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Billion hectares of forests with potential for restoration, study shows
Land areas around the world, bigger than Canada, have been identified as having potential to be restored to good quality, healthy forests, a new study has found. …
26 Nov 2009 | International news release
Council meeting wraps up at IUCN’s Swiss headquarters
The IUCN Council met in Gland, Switzerland from 23 to 25 November 2009. … | French | Spanish
26 Nov 2009 | News story
Climate change: turn the tide – turn to nature
UNFCCC COP15 meeting: 7 to 18 December, Copenhagen
Leaders at Copenhagen should make robust commitments and a timetable for achieving a legally binding treaty for the post-2012 climate change regime as early as possible.
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23 Nov 2009 | Media advisory
Expertos sobre el cambio climático crean el ´Mensaje de Granada´
Unas jornadas medioambientales elaboran este documento, que se presentará en la Conferencia de Copenhague de diciembre …
17 Nov 2009 | International news release
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Ocean carbon central to climate challenge
World leaders should recognize the immense potential of the ocean to reduce global warming by capturing carbon, if we are to avoid a serious climate crisis. … | French | Spanish
17 Nov 2009 | International news release
Policy makers urged to look at role environment plays in supporting communities
The importance of biodiversity and ecosystems to economies around the world is the focus of a series of five reports from the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study. The latest TEEB report, tailored for policy makers, is released today. …
13 Nov 2009 | News story
Arab governments show foresight over climate change and gender equality
With a firm agreement elusive in the countdown to the UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen next month, the ability of local communities in the Arab region to fight the negative effects of climate change hang in the balance. …
12 Nov 2009 | News story
Insider's view: from Barcelona to Copenhagen
The Climate Change Talks held in Barcelona (2-6 November) under the auspices of the UNFCCC ended with the Chairmen of the two main negotiating streams expressing confidence that ‘a strong outcome of COP15 at Copenhagen can be achieved that is balanced, fair, ambitious and effective’. However, at the same time, most negotiating groups are now playing down the probability that the initially hoped-for legally binding agreement will emerge in December. They admit that there is now a lack of time as well as a lack of progress. They prefer to refer to a ‘politically binding agreement’ (the meaning of which is less than clear) and to devoting 2010 to negotiating the details of a legal treaty- i.e. legally binding under international law. …
09 Nov 2009 | News story
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