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Key Documents archive results 1-7 of 7 in Agriculture & Environment and Environmental policy
Making the economic case
This report from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) offers advice to policymakers on present evidence to make the case for environmental investment. Environmental sustainability is often seen as a luxury that governments cannot afford. Environmental managers...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
From REDD to PINC
This policy brief, published by the Global Canopy Programme, proposes a system called Proactive Investment in Natural Capital (PINC), to reward countries for conserving large areas of tropical forest that act as 'global utilities' providing ecosystem services essential for preserving global food...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2008 | EN
Little REDD Book
This guide to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), published by the Global Canopy Programme, reviews many of the REDD proposals under discussion in global climate change negotiations. The authors highlight why strategies for REDD are needed, then outline and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2009 | EN
How to save the Amazon rainforest
This article, published by Mongabay.com, discusses the use of forest conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in the Amazon. The author describes the 'reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation' (REDD) mechanism included in the Bali roadmap for international...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Health and environment: Managing the linkages for sustainable development
This report highlights the key findings of the Health and Environment Linkages Initiative, set up by the WHO and UN Environment Programme to identify ways of integrating environment and health considerations into decision-making. The report outlines the ways in which health and environment linkages...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Global environmental change research: empowering developing countries
This paper discusses ways of reconciling the Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability. Using an example from Brazil -- the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) -- the authors examine why researchers aiming to produce sound scientific understanding to...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2008 | EN
Fuelling controversy — can biofuels slow the speed of climate change?
This annotated bibliography of mostly online resources covers the relationship between biofuels and climate change. The bibliography is divided into ten sections: Biofuels; GM trees; carbon sinks and trading; land use change -- effects on atmospheric carbon; deforestation and greenhouse gas...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2007 | EN
