In addition, there must be urgent action against immediate threats to biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

When it comes to global governance, communicable diseases, climate change, or threats to biodiversity, these countries importance speaks for itself.

Prioritizing the prevention and cleanup of pollution will not only save lives, but also mitigate climate change and reduce threats to biodiversity.

Current statistics on the state of the world's fisheries and various reports setting out the threats to oceans resources and biodiversity are well known.

UNEP analyses the status and trends in the distribution and condition of global biodiversity and provides early warning of emerging threats.

The Conference of the Parties expressed its concern about the serious threats to biodiversity in these areas and expressed the need for rapid action to address such threats, on the basis of the precautionary approach and the ecosystem approach.

Threats to deep sea biodiversity from mineral prospecting, mineral exploration or mineral exploitation in the Area need to be managed in such a way as to prevent species extinctions.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity resources

The Biodiversity Bargain

Instruments addressing biodiversity

6. Biodiversity resources.

f. Biodiversity resources

(i) Biodiversity resources

(h) Biodiversity resources

(d) Biodiversity resources

Biodiversity Convention Subtotal

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

It also recognizes that humans are an integral component of most ecosystems and emphasizes understanding the consequent immediate and underlying causes of threats to biodiversity, leading to policy and management interventions at appropriate levels.

Threats to our natural environment are therefore threats to our very existence.

As mining technologies and discharge rates and patterns become better constrained, process studies to address the nutrient and toxicant loading effects of mining discharges will be essential to evaluate threats to biodiversity in the water column.

The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

(i) Conserving island biodiversity

J. Conservation of biodiversity

Management of biodiversity

Ships also affect biodiversity through the release of alien invasive species transported in ballast water and in fouling assemblages on ship bottoms.133 The threats to biodiversity from invasions of alien species in the high seas are believed to be substantially less than in coastal waters, because natural ocean circulation causes biotic exchanges over vast scales.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

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B. Natural resources and biodiversity

Seamounts are important for biodiversity.

Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

UNCLOS does not specifically address issues relating to biodiversity.

The goal is to protect biodiversity, to provide stability and resilience.

In relation to the benthic ecosystem, the International Seabed Authority is in the process of establishing a framework to manage successfully threats to the marine environment and its biodiversity from activities in the Area, through its regulations on prospecting and exploration.

It is difficult to relate the provision of goods and services to biodiversity, as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is not clearly understood.90

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

(i) Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

G. Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

(g) Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

G. Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

In Bhutan, the programme contributed to major achievements in biodiversity conservation, supporting the biodiversity action plan and making operational the first protected area in Bhutan.

Addressing threats to peace and security

Threats to international peace and security