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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… sector 19 4.2 Commercial and retail banking 19 4.2.1 Environmental risk management by commercial banks 19 4.2.2 … banking sector? 21 4.3 Asset management 27 4.3.1 Environmental risk assessment by asset managers 27 4.3.2 How … the Business in the Environment Index – BiTCdd)64 as an indicator to assess whether companies in these sectors are …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… IUCN was founded in 1948 as the world’s first global environmental organisation and is today the largest … Desertification (UNCCD), given its close links with other environmental and sustainable development challenges, … (25 year) using an inter-annual vegetation index as an indicator of biomass production decline or increase found …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… Roda Verheyen, Jens Mackensen and Gerald Scholz IUCN Environmental Law Programme IUCN – The World Conservation … resources at local, regional and global levels. IUCN Environmental Law Programme Environmental Law Centre … project activity may even be considered by the DNA as one indicator that the project activity is consistent with …
Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… stated and the potential economic, social, health and environmental impacts should be assessed. The advantages and … we add our desire for social equity, economic yield and environmental accountability – the problem becomes extremely … value of landscape features and species State indicator • Water storage capacity (m3/m2) • Pollutant …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… will be felt beyond the livestock sector and have environmental, social, health, and ethical implications. The … to enable farmers to adapt to inevitable changes to environmental and economic conditions and to consumer demand. … exploit their own genetic resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and their responsibility to ensure …
E-waste Inspection and Enforcement Manual - Developed in the framework of the SBC E-waste Africa project
… Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) together with the Basel Convention … Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL). Information contained in this … raw material? This latter point would be an additional indicator that these items should be classified as waste. One …
Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… Programme (UNEP), the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation. The Centre has been in operation … African National Biodiversity Institute and Department of Environmental Affairs, Pretoria. 5Regardless of the policy … environment more broadly. Ecosystem threat statusG is an indicator of how threatened ecosystems are, or in other …
Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities
… challenges. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 government … 45 Supporting climate change programmes and environmental observation networks … (see MPA Case Study 1). A range of methods (including indicator-, index-, GIS- and model-based methods) for assess- …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… set aside for wild plants and animals. They also provide environmental services, such as soil protection and drinking … 2.10: Use of the categories in regional criteria and indicator processes for sustainable forest management 123 … to up-date the UN list 8 A specific contract to the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in Bonn, Germany to examine the …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… Marcos Orellana, Annalisa Savaresi, Dinah Shelton IUCN Environmental Law and Policy Paper No. 71 The designation of … IUCN, Gland, Switzerland in collaboration with the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Bonn, Germany Copyright: © 2009 … needs to be carried out if a project scores a –1 in any indicator. In the assessment of projects on sustainable …