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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services.

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It was stated that the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its synthesis report Human Well being and Ecosystem Services A Synthesis Report on Desertification provide a welcome and renewed focus on the socio economic significance of ecosystem services in the drylands.

Notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis report and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was initiated in 2002 under the auspices of the United Nations, with its secretariat coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme, and governed by a multi stakeholder board involving international institutions and representatives of Governments, business, non governmental organizations and indigenous peoples.

Three of the key messages from the Board that governs the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment also underpin the present document

Destruction of ecosystems

76. Also notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

100. Further notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

115. Also notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

And the World Bank has acknowledged this and they've started a project called WAVES Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services.

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Ecosystem health

(a) To assess the environmental consequences of the war on the marine and coastal areas, atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems and the hazardous waste situation in the region

(a) Protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems

Urban air pollution Water supply and sanitation Waste and chemicals management Water resources management Biodiversity and protection of ecosystems Sectoral integration (in particular in the energy, transport and agriculture and forestry sectors) Transboundary issues.

And every ecosystem together makes up our biosphere.

Finally, on an ecosystem scale.

Krkonoše National Park a mosaic of mountain ecosystems

Extensive large scale monitoring (level I), intensive monitoring of forest ecosystems on the permanent sample plots (level II) and integrated evaluation of results are carried out.

Several reports point out that desertification assessment should be part of overall ecosystem assessment, on the basis of appropriate methodologies and suitable indicators.

(a) Protection and preservation of ecosystems

Seminar on environmental services and financing for the protection and sustainable use of ecosystems

(c) Ecosystem planning and reforestation

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Options include improved ecosystem management, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and wetlands protection.

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On the global scale, the GIWA assessment has confirmed the widespread concern that pressures from human activity have weakened the ability of aquatic ecosystems to perform critical functions.