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Metadata on SDGs Indicator 15.1.2

Manuals & Guidelines
July, 2021
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forest conservation
forest land
wetlands
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
Indicator 15.1.2: Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type
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Remembering Elinor Ostrom

Her Work and its Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Reports & Research
April, 2014
Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Mongolia, India, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest conservation
land conservation
sustainable land management
natural resources management
common rights
commons
communal ownership
common property
This special issue of Policy Matters focuses on the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on common property (or commons) theory. Her work was instrumental in shaping contemporary analyses of resource management and conservation, especially at a local level. This collection of research papers, essays, commentaries, and songs build upon her work and provide case studies demonstrating the practical application of her theoretical contributions.
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Protected Planet Report 2016

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
protected areas
In 2010, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2010-2020 and its 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. It has since been endorsed by multiple Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a global framework for biodiversity. In 2015, the members of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Biodiversity Indicators: UNECE & SDGs

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2016
Global
agricultural land management
development agencies
land area
protected areas
sustainable development
Dr Tom Brooks, Head, Science and Knowledge International Union for Conservation of Nature UNECE, Committee on Environmental Policy, presentation on Biodiversity Indicators: UNECE and the SDGS at the 12th Session of the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators, 17 November 2016.
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New Steps of Change: Looking Beyond Protected Areas to Consider other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
concession (land)
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute
In 2010, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. Target 11 calls for ‘at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas’ to be conserved by way of ‘well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures’.