Achievement of environmental management goals and objectives in coastal areas, including how to measure success, remains a significant subject for discussion among scholars and practitioners, meanwhile four distinct management efforts potentially converge within the coastal zone: land-use planning (LUP), river basin management (RBM), marine spatial planning (MSP) and integrated coastal management (ICM).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Colombia, Cuba
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Spain, Malaysia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Americas
Colombia has submitted two national communications (NCs 2001, 2010) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), providing information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, and measures to mitigate and facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change, among other information. In 2015, Colombia also presented its First Biennial Update Report (BUR), including the REDD+ technical annex. In 2010 and 2012, GHG emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector contributed to respectively 58 % and 43% of the national GHG emissions.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015United States of America, Rwanda, Gambia, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Italy, Costa Rica, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Asia, Africa, Americas
<i>Towards effective national forest funds</i> addresses the need for more information on the way NFFs work and how best to establish and manage them. It shares the lessons that have emerged from the establishment and management of NFFs with the aim of supporting countries in designing and operating NFFs effectively according to their specific needs and circumstances.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Angola, Dominica, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Cuba, Congo, Venezuela, Benin, Costa Rica, Colombia, Bahamas, Lesotho, Albania, Australia, Argentina, India, Senegal, Chad, Austria
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 1999 REP
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Algeria, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Chile, Germany, China, Zimbabwe, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Iceland, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Italy, Cameroon, Cuba, Argentina, Russia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Austria
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2016Algeria, Fiji, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, Gambia, Chile, Burkina Faso, China, Iran, Guyana, Niger, Ethiopia, Thailand, Morocco, Malaysia, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, Tunisia, Senegal, Turkey, Uruguay
The publication aims to provide a broad range of data and statistics on forests, and the impact and benefits that forestry has on our environment. It also offers some general information and data about the impact forests and forestry can have in mitigating the effects of climate change, as well as information concerning how they are, in turn, affected by climate change.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2014Fiji, Nigeria, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, Mozambique, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, Argentina, India, Mexico, Cuba
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2005United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Bolivia, Canada, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Cuba
El marco político para la gestión forestal es un proceso dinámico de renovación e innovación. Nuevas actitudes públicas hacia el bosque y el desarrollo forestal y nuevos actores políticos presionan por un mayor énfasis en la importancia ambiental y social y por más participación en las decisiones de gestión. El desarrollo sostenible es el principio global de la silvicultura. Políticas transversales y redes políticas de nivel múltiple determinan el uso y la protección de los bosques tanto a nivel nacional como local.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013North Macedonia, United States of America, Germany, China, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Italy, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Jordan, Morocco, Barbados, Mexico, Moldova, Armenia, Brazil, Montenegro, Norway
This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning in the agriculture sector provides national policy makers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes to aid them in identifying the relevance of these processes for promoting agricultural development. It also gives policy makers and advisors involved in low-emission development planning processes an overview of mitigation planning in the agriculture sector and highlights the relevance of agriculture to national mitigation plans and actions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2000Colombia, Cuba
Meeting symbol/code: LARC 00 INF.10
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