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This EPA interactive web application connects communities to EPA Green Infrastructure tools & resources and provides access to tools and resources that can support and promote water management and community planning decisions.

This CBD document shows the origins of the Convention on Biological Diversity with 3 main objectives of: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

This article disusses the rapid growth of the coastal urban centres in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa, and the impact of the coastal tourism sector including the producing vast quantities of pollution from untreated domestic sewage and posing a threat to the near-shore habitats such as coral reefs.

This One Planet Network repository of tools and resources supports the Signatories of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative to implement their commitments on elimination of single-use plastics, introduction of reusable models, engagement and collaboration with value chain stakeholders, etc., as well as at enabling additional tourism businesses and organizations to take action on plastic pollution.

This case study of Praia da Cova Redonda in Portugal presents the negative impacts on land use and occupation caused by the excessive presence of people, the introduction of invasive species and the artificial filling of beaches. At the end, a set of mitigating measures are presented that aim to ensure that the exploitation of natural resources can be maintained, but in a perspective of preservation and recovery of natural resources and biodiversity.

This Resource Watch resource features hundreds of data sets all in one place, providing a comprehensive state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

This INTOSAI report provides an overview of the impact of tourism on wildlife conservation including environmental, social and cultural impacts and human–wildlife conflicts as well as audits related to tourism and wildlife.

This WRI report examines the role of equity in securing a sustainable ocean economy and sets out a clear pathway that we can begin to implement now to strive towards ocean equity.

This document is one of a series synthesizing the most pertinent findings of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for tourism as a critical economic and business sector in the fight against climate change.

The Climate Neutral Now Initiative is one of several initiatives launched by the UNFCCC secretariat to increase climate action by engaging non-Party stakeholders (sub-national governments, companies, organizations, individuals). This tool is used for awareness-raising, capacity building, partnership developing, promoting and facilitating the estimation of carbon footprints, the reduction of those footprints, and voluntary compensation (offsetting).