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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests … GUIDELINES FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN TROPICAL TIMBER PRODUCTION FORESTS 1 ITTO … trade, subsidies and credits should be made available to offset the costs of biodiversity conservation in tropical …
Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… • Food prices/security • Increased GHG emissions • Loss of biodiversity • Land rights and other equity issues Aim of … to promote synergies between bioenergy production and biodiversity conservation and livelihood development. This … Banking Biodiversity offsets are commonly applied to offset any damage to biodiversity resulting from …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… iv Land Degradation: a global threat to biodiversity and sustainable development .......1 Extent of … Respect biodiversity and ecosystems … challenges. Central to IUCN’s mission is demonstrating how biodiversity is fundamental to addressing some of the world’s … ecosystems and livelihoods and to conserving drylands biodiversity. The Initiative builds on and strengthens the …
Water Management and Stewardship
… ecosystem services, freshwater systems, and ultimately biodiversity. This study was guided by IUCN’s Business … sectoral and cross- sectoral levels in regard to how biodiversity is valued and managed by businesses. More … site-based water footprints through a localised offset does not attempt to address the major water use …
Global Land Outlook
… Food Security and Agriculture 124 8 Water Resources 160 9 Biodiversity and Soil 190 10 Energy and Climate 212 11 … land’s vital role in tackling climate change, securing biodiversity and the delivery of critical ecosystem services … costs of exploitation were seen as diffuse and/or easily offset. More recently, we have come to understand that this …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… Foreword Ensuring sustainable and equitable management of biodiversity from local to global levels is the heartland of … the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Conservation of marine biodiversity in general and fish resources in particular has … may also grant financial support to the organizations to offset the costs arising from their formation and of their …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1.4 The Convention on Access to Information, … management. These interests range from the conservation of biodiversity and specific endangered species and their … Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is then to be designed to offset any harmful effects the proposed activity might have …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… natural assimilation thresholds negatively affect biodiversity and natural capacity for regeneration. This is … higher that the natural rate of renewal, which reduces biodiversity and weakens the ecosystems’ capacity to … to the others. They entangle individuals and families in offset social networks, creating an extremely difficult …