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Issue 3.16 / November 2016
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TEEBAgriFood Scientific and Economic Foundations Report: Call for Expressions of Interest and Call for Evidence DEADLINE THIS WEEKEND |
TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood) is finally initiating the report-writing process for its first major technical report on Scientific and Economic Foundations, and reaching out to the community-at-large for contributions, both in terms of time and knowledge.
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TEEB is seeking motivated individuals who are looking for a challenging, yet rewarding role in the content development of a technical report on the 'Scientific and Economic Foundations' for a project on ' TEEB for Agriculture & Food'.
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TEEB is seeking recommendations for journal articles, book chapters and other publications toward the development of a technical report on the 'Scientific and Economic Foundations' for a project on ' TEEB for Agriculture & Food'.
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This year's COP-13, hosted by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), will bring together representatives of the countries, party managers and key players to promote the implementation of the Convention. UNEP TEEB will lead three side events (on TEEBAgriFood, TEEB Country Studies and TEEB-SEEA) and partner with several others to present the latest from the different TEEB areas of work.
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TEEB will organize an international workshop in Cancún, Mexico from 4-7 December at the margins of the CBD COP-13 to share experiences, expertise and interim results with partners in Bhutan, Ecuador, Liberia, the Philippines, Tanzania and the international community.
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In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a universal agenda for sustainable development, calling on all nations to mobilize global efforts around a common set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. TEEBAgriFood delivers the impetus for change in food systems by 'valuing the invisible' in the SDGs. We suggest scaling-up solutions for the SDGs through a three-tiered lens of agriculture & food systems - the "SDG food cake".
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#ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)
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This free-of-charge and self-paced e-course provides "everything you need to know" about the basics of climate change. It is structured six introductory modules. After completing the course, a participant receives a certificate produced by UNITAR and partner organizations. The course is now available in English, French and Spanish. [ read more]
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"The TEEB pilot study we are conducting in the Guayas watershed consists of analysing farming practices from small and large scale farmers and of assessing their positive and negative impacts on ecosystems".
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Third EU [email protected] Annual Conference (The Hague, The Netherlands 23 November)
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Governments, non-governmental organisations and businesses are looking for ways to enjoy all that nature has to offer without depleting the earth's riches. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) collaborated in seven projects, to explore the possible role of natural capital, and also analysed this role for a number of past projects. [Download the report]
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The report describes how biodiversity is central to the natural capital framework and yet its values are often overlooked in natural capital assessments. It sets out positive ways that businesses and others can better reflect biodiversity concerns into decisions and sets out next steps for future work.
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Putting an economic value on our natural environmental is difficult, both from an ethical and from a technical perspective. Nature is therefore often regarded as 'priceless'. However, in our globalized economic system, the value of nature's multitude of critical services is subsequently translated as "0".
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by Peter Bakker, WBCSD
It's hard to believe it's already been one year since the global adoption of the SDGs. The past year has been about enhancing understanding and appreciation of the development agenda the SDGs represent, and gradually accepting that within this new global framework, all countries are in need of further development.
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The TEEBrief newsletter, published every two months, aims to inform the TEEB Community about news, events, publications, multimedia and more related to The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
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