This volume contributes to broadening the understanding and application of the concept of mainstreaming biodiversity. It captures the inputs to, and findings of an international workshop held in Cape Town...
At a time of global restructuring and calls for more responsive and participatory governance, new partnerships are being sought, as are new means of consolidating them through the creation of novel international...
The report reviews the Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects, combining approaches to remove supply-side, and demand-side barriers to markets for energy-efficient products. Supply-side strategies...
The report was prepared as a back-up document to the International Waters Program Study, and, reviews the existing legal agreements related to the protection of international water bodies, which establish...
The purpose of this report is to identify the results, and initial impact of the land degradation component of those linkage projects which encompass biodiversity, international waters, and climate change...
The purpose of this report is to identify the results and initial impact of the land degradation component of those linkage projects which link biodiversity, international waters and climate change with...
New Ireland Province-an island in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) archipelago-is rich in biodiversity that is now severely threatened by industrial logging. In 1994, the United Nations Development Programme...
New Ireland Province-an island in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) archipelago-is rich in biodiversity that is now severely threatened by industrial logging. In 1994, the United Nations Development Programme...
New Ireland Province-an island in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) archipelago-is rich in biodiversity that is now severely threatened by industrial logging. In 1994, the United Nations Development Programme...
Capacity building has played a major role in the three-year pilot phase of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it develops a preliminary generic categorization...
The prominence given to countries in global fora has traditionally been based on economic and political consideration. This paper examines a broader approach that includes two important environmental factors...
Country case studies are important instruments for determining national climate policies and for adding to the global knowledge on climate issues. They are also the basis for examining the obligations...
This paper was prepared at the request of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It addresses such issues as the costs of carbon emissions (or their...
This paper explores the relationship between economics and biodiversity conservation with minimal recourse to jargon, making the issue accessible even to the non-economist. It deals with the concepts of...
Incremental cost is a central concept in the global environmental conventions. Under both the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and the Convention of Biological Diversity, developed countries...
This paper provides an account of the incremental cost issues which are being studied under the Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Environment (PRINCE), and is a supplement to PRINCE's work...
This volume is an exploration of the sociology of biodiversity conservation. Starting with the assumption that indigenous communities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are essential to the success...
This paper is the first among a series of Global Environment Facility (GEF) Working Papers to deal with the Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Environment (PRINCE). PRINCE was initiated in...
This paper aims to examine: a) the economic issues of global warming and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2); b) identify possible economic policy options for their reduction;...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) assists developing countries deal with four main global environmental problems: global warming, particularly effects on the world's climate of greenhouse gas emissions...