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Net Positive Impact for biodiversity. The business case
… institutions’ performance standards for biodiversity management. • The business case for NPI centres on the … 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 …
Report - Alternatives to fenthion for quelea bird control
… small (<5 ha) colonies and roosts. 4. An integrated pest management (IPM) approach is the most environmentally benign … are efficient means of catching flying birds but run the risk of catching non- target birds too, which may be killed … organophosphate avicide. Less toxic than fenthion. High risk of environmental impacts. Killing action takes longer …
Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe
… works to ensure integrated and sustainable water resources management, and to ensure clean air and minimize climate … were identified that could support, with low population risk, the extraction of individuals for translocation to the … exchange among local populations sufficient to minimize risk of adverse genetic effects. Indicator 4: Information on …
State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
… place a large number of species at varying levels of risk, both regionally and nationally. Deforestation has a … sector, with a positive impact on sustainable forest management.4 4. In 2005, the most recent year for which data … coral reefs have either been wiped out or are at serious risk. In a business- as-usual scenario it is expected that 20 …
The Minamata Convention on Mercury and its implementation in the Latin America and Caribbean region
… implementation contributes to an enhanced environmental management in our countries. By providing relevant … the region have developed their inventories of Mercury and Risk Management Planning. Such is the case of Argentina, … and programmes to identify and protect populations at risk, particularly vulnerable populations, and which may …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene� t-sharing regimes, and proposed … initiative, it may be only a sub-set of rights that are at risk of being undermined, or that can be further fulfilled, … marginalized populations, and those whose rights are at risk of being violated …. Universality means that all people …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… compelling an alternative approach to natural resource management. y Building on scientific understanding of the … of the consequences of climate change and the great risk of climate change occurring.” In reaching this … and RWE’s emissions—rather many emitters had created the risk of flood confronting Lliuya’s town such that the root …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… water resources and environmental degradation to a water management system that reduces poverty, ensures healthy … and quantify. “THE ABSENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS PUTS AT RISK THE VERY EXISTENCE OF ECOSYSTEMS, PEOPLE AND ECONOMIES.“ … the long-term absence of environmental flows puts at risk the very existence of dependent ecosystems, and …
Assessing the international forest regime
… on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and natural resources. The Union has … of norms reflecting the lowest common denominator. This risk is particularly significant given the current lack of … a useful framework for managed trade in species which risk becoming threatened by trade. Although CITES has been …
Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders
… to the resolution should fully consider the heightened risk posed by business activities to environmental human … or ineffective protection measures available for EHRDs at risk • In almost every affected Latin American country, … Integrate HRBA to their policies for fund allocation and management; condition their funds on such an approach in …