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As a typical coastal city, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, faces serious societal challenges such as the impact of climate change, overexploitation of natural resources, and loss of biodiversity. Xiamen is implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) by strengthening ecological protection, promoting ecosystem restoration, building sponge city, supporting sustainable community development and green transformation of mines, while encouraging funding and diverse public participation. After more than 30 years of exploration and practice, the green development concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature has been integrated into areas and processes of Xiamen’s economic and social development, making Xiamen’s practice a global example of excellence in NbS and a model for sustainable development of coastal cities.
让企业参与自然保护
With 26 case studies from 10 multinational companies, this publication highlights their positive actions, interventions and initiatives contributing to specific conservation and restoration goals. The concrete examples illustrate a pivotal part of their work which have direct impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem on their sites and operations, focused on a variety of additional and proactive biodiversity conservation and restoration actions more commonly within the landscape and seascape. The different case studies seek to present current voluntary practices and initiatives that are above and beyond addressing the negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services onsite. While not exhaustive, these case studies seek to be illustrative of current voluntary practices and demonstrative of some of the kinds of initiatives that are currently being carried out.
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Ten tijden van de vijftigste verjaardag van het Werelderfgoedverdrag in 2022 zijn wereldwijd meer dan 1100 erfgoederen erkend als Werelderfgoed, plekken die zo waardevol zijn voor de mensheid dat het behoud ervan als onze gezamenlijke verantwoordelijkheid wordt gezien. Toch staan veel van deze uitzonderlijke plekken steeds meer onder druk, door verschillende soorten projectontwikkeling op en rondom de erfgoederen. Het beoordelen van het effect van dergelijke projecten, voordat wordt besloten of ze kunnen worden uitgevoerd, is essentieel om schade aan Werelderfgoed te voorkomen en om duurzame opties te identificeren. In deze Leidraad en toolkit voor effectbeoordelingen in een Werelderfgoedcontext wordt het proces uitgelegd waarmee deze doelen kunnen worden bereikt. Met praktische tips en hulpmiddelen, zoals checklists en een begrippenlijst, schept dit document een kader voor het uitvoeren van effectbeoordelingen voor plekken met cultureel en natuurlijk erfgoed.
Lessons learned from environmental accounting : findings from nine case studies
Environmental accounting—the modification of the national income accounts to take into consideration the economic role of the environment—has grown in importance over the past ten years. However, many countries have not yet implemented such accounts, and there is much controversy about whether and how to do so. This paper aims to shed light on this situation through nine country case studies: Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden, France, Canada, The Philippines, Namibia, Germany, and the United States.
Socio-economic factors determining on-farm agricultural biological diversity in Zimbabwe : working paper
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