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Environmental Law: Sustainable development

Sustainable development and nature based solutions

At the 2016 World Conservation Congress and members’ assembly, IUCN's members adopted resolution (available via link below) which defined the use of nature for simultaneous benefits to biodiversity and human well-being: “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits” 

 

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