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… case for biodiversity for financial institutions from a risk perspective 9 3.1 The relationship between ecosystems … Evidence of negative performances 14 3.3.4 Reputational risk 14 3.4 How do these drivers for biodiversity risk add … 21 4.3 Asset management 27 4.3.1 Environmental risk assessment by asset managers 27 4.3.2 How can asset managers …

… the apparel sector value Chain that are potentially high risk, in terms of contributing directly to the 5 pressures on … been given much attention in this sector). It proposes a risk assessment framework based on the sector’s dependencies and …

… of corporate ‘water behaviours’ Figure 5: The ‘Water Risk and Action Framework’ of the International Water … Global Water Partnership HSAP Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol IFC International Finance Corporation IFI … from the status of water, currently, as a medium risk, but low priority, to (increasingly) a medium (or high) …

… Sites 64 Annex 3: Habitat Questionnaires 66 Boxes Box 1 – Risk and opportunity assessment 18 Box 2 – Questions BIRS seeks to address 21 Box … throughout the life cycle of their operations, using a risk-and-op- portunity-based approach. The IBMS builds off …

… ensuring that engagement with the private sector includes risk management, reflects IUCN’s Value Proposition (see Box … contexts – including the type of engagement, level of risk, and who is carrying out the process – which the … business selection, project concept, negotiation, risk assessment and management, and drafting of a contractual …

… new business opportunities � Use the impact/dependency assessment to identify, evaluate and respond to new business … with respect to water available for human use. In higher risk areas, the amount of water removed from the system by human activities puts the ecosystem at risk by tapping into the water needed to sustain the …

… 51 6.8 Risk Allocation … 287 vi vii Foreword The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has shown that despite their importance to human … the flexibility needed to react to changing circumstances. Risk Allocation Market risk, party risk, and risk of innocent … (CBD Secretariat 2007). As the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has shown, despite their importance to human …

… one in four mammals and one in eight birds face a high risk of extinction in the near future (IUCN, 2009). The … pest control and climate regulation (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). Biodiversity loss also has important … poor record of biodiversity offsets to date; and (iii) the risk of adverse impacts of mitigation on local communities. …

… absence of an IUCN policy on this issue also represents a risk; EMPHASISING the importance of rigorously applying all … offsets; FURTHER EMPHASISING that uncertainty and risk can be reduced when the mitigation hierarchy is embedded … most important step in the mitigation hierarchy. An early assessment of risks associated with impacts and their …

… including business practices and policies. A recent global assessment found that almost two-thirds of the ecosystem … adopted the Equator Principles on environmental and social risk management for project finance. These financial … PricewaterhouseCoopers (2010b). Biodiversity and business risk: a global risks network briefing. A briefing paper for …