The recognition that economies are embedded within and dependent on nature is growing, with nature itself being seen as an asset to the economy. As the impacts of climate and biodiversity crises become...
In this report, we update and extend the methodology developed for the previous CWON 2021 report to assess the economic value of non-wood ecosystem services from forests (Siikamäki et al. 2021). Like the...
The rapid evolution of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is propelling us into the era of data economy, highlighting the urgent need for governments to establish robust national-level data...
The development objective of Eastern Province Jurisdictional Sustainable Landscape Program – Emissions Reduction Project for Zambia is to generate payments to the Program Entity for measured, reported...
The Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Landscape Assessment (BELA) initiative, launched in June 2021, promoted the use of ecosystem-services-informed landscape analytics and project planning to enhance the...
Valuing ecosystem services—the benefits humans obtain from earth’s many life-support systems—is an important step in devising interventions to achieve sustainable livelihoods and climate resilience. The...
The toolkit contains three modules covering the major climate entry points (i.e., alignment with climate policies; incorporation of climate considerations in the project selection; and appraisal of climate...
The accelerated expansion of digital economy ecosystems mandates company registries to digitalize and connect to these ecosystems responding to new business dynamics. Achieving data-driven company registries...
The global environment facility (GEF) has invested more than 60 million dollars and leveraged 120 million dollars in co-financing in over 100 countries in support of the third objective of the convention...
On July 3, 2007, the World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a credit of US500 million dollars for the development of the Niger Basin.
The objective of the study is to provide the GEF Council, the GEF Secretariat and its Biodiversity Team, the GEF Biodiversity Task Force, and the general biodiversity community with an assessment of how...