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IUCN Knowledge Products. The basis for a partnership to support the functions and work programme of IBPES

… Red List of Ecosystem s measures extinction risk sites of biodiversity importance requiring conservation action … environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and … or better” in terms of the biodiversity features of the offset site. “Key biodiversity areas” are also incorporated …
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Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… and most recently the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosytems and Biodiversity) report in 2010 were milestones for highlighting … pandemia (such as the bird or swine flu). Nature and its biodiversity provide effective and often cost-efficient … harm could serve as a starting point to establish an offset credit system. In this system, when an actor whose …
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Best practice for industrial-scale development projects

… production and consumption, and Goal 15 on halting biodiversity loss; RECALLING the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, especially Aichi Biodiversity Target … minimise, restore and, as a last resort, compensate or offset residual impacts where they occur; f. transparent and …
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CBD: Mechanisms for Implementation - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Strategic Plan Strategic Plan 2011-2020, including Aichi Biodiversity Targets Thematic programmes of work … exchange relevant to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and improved international technical and … such as payment for ecosystem services, biodiversity offset mechanisms, fiscal reform or private funding. Case …
17 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Community - based incentives for nature conservation

… economic forces, or perverse incentives, which underlie biodiversity degradation. Economic incentives present a … an overview of the role of economic incentives in global biodiversity policy; and • Presents a list of reference … There is a niche for using incentive measures to change or offset the effects of policies, markets, institutions and …
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Energy law and sustainable development

… and sustainable development David R. Hodas Energy and biodiversity: Understanding complex relationships Jeffrey A. … energy, health care, food security and the protection of biodiversity...." Paragraph 13 of the Johannesburg … Ironically, to the extent past sulphur emissions have offset the radiative forcing from the major GHGs, the cooling …
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An Ounce of Prevention: Snow Leopard Crime Revisited

… on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. … Protection Agency, Afghanistan; NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union); the Snow Leopard Network; … of improved herding practices [Nawaz et al., 2016a]); 2) offset livestock losses (e.g., through community livestock …
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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

… In many European countries, subsidies to oil are often offset by special taxes and levies intended mainly to raise … management, the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, marine and coastal ecosystem management, and … on price. In some cases, energy subsidies are more than offset by special taxes and duties that raise the final …
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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… the world’s most authoritative voice on behalf of global biodiversity conservation and the sustainability of natural … to inform the world about the status and trends of global biodiversity, thus providing measures for the health of our … conservation and carbon off-set schemes: Carbon offset and carbon credit trading schemes used to enhance …
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Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project

… of wildlife has affected the status of the earth's biodiversity for millennia. Wildlife harvest has sustained … throughout the world, jeopardising the very foundations of biodiversity, clouding the future well being of humans and … in 2006 and 2007, when a poaching decline in Kenya was offset by a major increase in Zimbabwe, overall impressive …
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