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Amazon Protected Areas are key in helping communities and nature adapt to a changing climate. They build resilience to climate change globally, mitigate the impacts of climate events, ensure the provision of ecosystem services and protect biodiversity. Protected Areas should be included in climate change strategies and development plans of the Amazon countries in order to facilitate climate-resilient development and promote a safer climate future.
Requirements:
- Strengthen regional collaboration towards the implementation of the Amazon Conservation Vision.
- Recognize the importance of Protected Areas within the wider climate-resilient development planning context in the Amazon region.
- Assess and improve contribution of Protected Areas to climate change vulnerability reduction, resilience and ecosystem services provision
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successful and cost-efficient tools for ecosystem management that can support climate change adaptation strategies
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Integrate the role Protected Areas play in adaptation and resilience in regional, national, subnational and sectoral climate change and development policy instruments, strategies and action plans
The Latin American Network for Protected Area Systems RedParques and WWF Living Amazon Initiative are leading a regional effort to strengthen Amazon Protected Area Systems and include the role of Protected Areas in climate change strategies and development plans through the project ‘Amazon Biome: Natural Solution to Climate Change’ as part Implementation of the Amazon Conservation Vision
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WWF
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Accessibility:
- Screen reader compliant
Development stage:
- Full, working product
Quality assurance:
- Accreditation
- Professional references
- Own QA and testing
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