Case Study Report: The Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience in Nepal

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Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

"This project will facilitate private markets to insure small scale women and men farmers for damage caused by Human Wildlife Conflict (HWC), primarily from elephants. This will provide support for insurance in two countries – Kenya and Sri Lanka - where HWC is a serious threat to livelihoods and to biodiversity and there is interest from private insurers to address this gap in the market.

Comments to the Draft Working Group III Workplan

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently working on how to reform international investment treaties, focusing in particular on those treaties’ provisions enabling investors to sue governments in international arbitration. As an observer organization in this process, CCSI has emphasized that in the context of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform, it is important to first consider what it is that investment treaties aim to achieve, and only then to consider what form(s) of dispute settlement will best advance those objectives. This means not only looking at reform of the existing ISDS mechanism, but also alternatives to it. Having identified various concerns about ISDS and determined that such concerns merit multilateral reform, UNCITRAL is now engaged in developing procedural reform solutions. To contribute to UNCITRAL’s work, CCSI, together with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), submitted five documents outlining potential reform options and considerations: Comments to the Draft Working Group III Workplan. The draft workplan is available on the Working Group III website and is intended to set forth and allocate time and resources to the WGIII activities over the coming years. Our comments relate to making the plan of work more transparent and participatory, in particular for developing countries, non-governmental Working Group III observers (including our organizations) and also how the workplan should incorporate the “cross-cutting issues.

Navigating ocean investments : how collaborative management can fill the marine conservation funding gap

Insights: 1. Collaboratively managed marine protected areas (MPAs) offer impact investors a strong opportunity to support the sustainable management of marine resources, improve coastal livelihoods and generate financial returns. 2. Impact investment in MPAs can help fill the global gap in public finance: supporting progress on national and international conservation and sustainable development targets. 3. Defining tailored indicators and ways to measure them is vital to delivering the desired environmental and social impacts. 4. Governments engaged in collaborative management partnerships can improve their access to blended finance for marine conservation with no financial risk, while retaining core functions

UNCITRAL Working Group III: Contribution on the ‘Right to Regulate’ Provision

UNCITRAL Working Group III: Contribution on the ‘Right to Regulate’ Provision is a joint submission to the Secretariat\u27s request for comments on the procedural and cross-cutting issues. The commentary focuses on the states\u27 right-to-regulate provision, proposed in the Draft provisions on procedural and cross-cutting issues, and proposes additional policy options aimed at preserving the states\u27 sovereign right (and duty) to regulate

Mapping for change: Practice, technologies and communication

Based on papers submitted for the 'Mapping for Change' International Conference held in Kenya in 2005, this special PLA issue provides an overview of the work of practitioners from many countries. The papers are divided into: tool-based case-studies; issue-based studies; and theory and reflections from practice

Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development

There are dozens of emerging interactive web applications and services (often referred to as the participatory web, or Web 2.0). These can enhance the ways we create, share, and publish information. But these technical opportunities also bring challenges that we need to understand and grasp. Some of the key questions that this special issue will seek to address include: How can Web 2.0 applications be integrated with participatory development approaches? How can they facilitate and contribute to people's participation and decision-making? What are the challenges and barriers to people's participation? How do we address factors such as access, equity, control, and oversight? Can Web 2.0 applications challenge fundamental social inequalities? This special issue aims to publish a collection of articles, which provide working examples from practice

Operationalizing the environment-health nexus in Asia and the Pacific : a policy guide on opportunities for enhancing health, biodiversity, food system and climate action

Climate change and ecosystem degradation are amongst the biggest health threats facing Asia and the Pacific. Human health is threatened by increasing risks of extreme weather events, poor air quality, unsafe and insecure food and water as well as various diseases linked to environmental change. It is estimated that almost one quarter of the global environmental burden of disease arises from 14 South-East and East Asian countries alone. There is an urgent need for actors from the environment and health sectors to develop joint agendas and mobilize a whole-of-society approach to address the interconnected environment-health risks to increase resilience, save lives, and reduce costs. Operationalizing the Environment Health Nexus in Asia and the Pacific: A Policy Guide on Opportunities for Enhancing Health, Biodiversity, Food System and Climate Action aims to support policymakers and stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region to address environment-health risks and safeguard human health and well-being while protecting ecosystems. Specifically, it provides an overview of concrete opportunities to mainstream the environment-health nexus in public policies in Asia and the Pacific, including those pertinent to health, biodiversity loss, food systems, and climate change. It also lays out pathways to strengthen the enabling factors for operationalizing an environmentally comprehensive One Health approach. These enabling factors include multisectoral governance; integrated environment and health data and assessment; nature-based solutions; human rights-based approaches; stakeholder engagement and capacity-building; integrated environment-health funding streams; and regional cooperation.Wellcome Trust under grant agreement 226152/Z/22/

Including access and benefit sharing in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

This paper was prepared for consideration by the 2nd meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Rome, Italy, February 2020. It includes proposals for how access and benefit-sharing rules, practices and impacts could be integrated in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Post 2020 Framework)