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Environment policy: UNEP report on Ecosystems for Water and Food Security
UNEP report on Ecosystems for Water and Food Security - overview on science, policy and management with a heavy emphasis on the water resources side.
Biodiversity Policy UK: England Biodiversity Strategy published
Published today, the long-awaited Biodiversity 2020: a strategy for England's wildlife and ecosystem services. This complements the earlier publication in 2011 of the UK government's policy white paper on the natural environment Nature's Choice and the UK National Ecosystem Assessment.
Biodiversity policy UK: National Ecosystem Assessment synthesis
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment reporting has been launched with a Synthesis report - links to the 27 more detailed reports available also, but these are currently in a range of states of completion.
Biodiversity policy UK: the National Ecosystem Assessment
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment has just been published. This will tie in with the imminent publication of the new White Paper on environment and a new England biodiversity strategy.
Biodiversity policy international: UN General Assembly reports on biodiversity
Formal reports from UN GA committee in early December that formally note and confirm agreements from COP10 of the CBD. One report on UNEP that includes IPBES; the second on CBD.
Biodiversity policy international: IPBES agreed by the UN General Assembly
The UN General Assembly has agreed to the formation of the Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - announced by UNEP. It is said that this will be similar to IPCC, but for biodversity rather than climate. Lot of rather interesting questions to be answered as to remit, approach and governance, but UNEP now moving to organise a first plenary.
Biodiversity policy international: Marine protected areas after Nagoya.
IUCN and others have published a report on Global ocean protection : present status and future possibilities - good overview of Marine protected areas, with focus on what will be needed to deliver the target of 10% of the marine environment under the Nagoya commitments.
Biodiversity international: WWF living planet report
WWF 2010 Living Planet Report has been published. Attractive approach to high-level assessment with mapping and visualisation, with current ideas on footprints, biocapacity, ecosystem services, biodiversity economics and other issues represented. There are a range of reports of this type around aimed at policy and, to some extent, public audiences - GEO (next in 2012); the World Resources Report (at the end of 2010); and the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (May 2010); and the Human Development report (November 2010), among others.