This report critically assesses how peacebuilding programming can also produce adaptation benefits (and vice versa), so that interventions simultaneously contribute to reduced intercommunal conflict and strengthened resilience to a range of shocks and stresses, including droughts, floods, and rainfall variability.
The integration of biodiversity and sustainable landscapes objectives and considerations has the potential to increase the sustainability of programming, amplify results, and save costs. However, at other times, separate activities may make more sense in contexts where programmatic goals and requirements are not a natural fit. This document explores both the benefits and potential challenges of integrating biodiversity and sustainable landscapes objectives to help project staff make informed choices about whether and how to integrate.
This report discusses the impacts of transport projects on wildlife and biodiversity in Asia, and how to address them by integrating road ecology principles and green infrastructure measures—from environmentally sensitive road design to animal passage structures and management guidelines—to reduce transport project impacts on wildlife.
This Paper proposes a method whereby any decision-maker can calculate the cost required to deliver sustainable water management to a geography. It calculates the cost of action required to close the gap between current conditions and desired conditions to financially compare and prioritize different water-related challenges or different targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6. The paper also estimates the costs of delivering sustainable water management for all countries and major basins.
A ‘Regional Symposium on Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation’ was held on 13–14 March 2018 in Kathmandu. The symposium highlighted the critical role of ecosystem interactions across spatial scales in delivering services, particularly to the poor who are highly dependent on natural resources. It further showcased potential ecosystem services governance pathways to achieving wellbeing for the poorest, and environmental sustainability through research and knowledge programmes in South Asia.