Story | 20 Jul, 2010
Indigenous peoples and REDD-plus
Challenges and opportunities for the engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities in REDD-plus
Press release | 07 Jul, 2010
Remote Villages of Ziarat Electrified through Solar Energy
Ziarat, Pakistan, July 08, 2010 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Pakistan Council for Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) have collaboratively installed twelve solar energy panel systems in ten different remotely located villages of Ziarat district of Balochistan. With…
Press release | 29 Apr, 2010
World governments fail to deliver on 2010 biodiversity target
Background: World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the journal Science and…
Story | 05 Mar, 2010
Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative brochure - Working towards high seas conservation
Project description brochure for the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI)
Story | 28 Feb, 2010
Risks from maritime traffic to biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea
Risks from maritime traffic to biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea - Identification of issues and possible responses
Story | 24 Feb, 2010
Towards a better Governance of the Mediterranean / Vers une meilleure gouvernance de la Méditerranée
Towards a better Governance of the Mediterranean / Vers une meilleure gouvernance de la Méditerranée
Story | 05 Jan, 2010
Gender and Biodiversity Factsheets
These three factsheets address the linkages between gender and biodiversity, also they develop two of the main concerns of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Biosafety and Access and benefit sharing of the genetic resources.
Story | 05 Jan, 2010
Climate Change and Gender Factsheets
These factsheets were presented at the COP 13 of the UNFCCC, held in Bali on December, 2007. They provide information on the gender perspective of climate change, adaptation measures, bioenergy and REDD.
Story | 05 Jan, 2010
Publication: Mainstreaming Gender Equity and Equality in ABS Governance
This document serves as the basis for a methodological proposal to mainstream a gender equity and equality perspective into the processes involving the access and benefit-sharing of biodiversity resources, thus, achieving the objective of being fair, equitable and effective, as proclaimed by the…