This list contains 60 entry(ies).
This book is designed to help conservation organisations, community-based organisations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- Kuoni Group, CH
The surge in Chinese investments in Africa has brought about a flurry of questions expressing concern over their ecological impact in the host countries. till, the principles and implementation of environmental management by Chinese firms remains largely unknown.
Author(s):
- Vliet, Geert van
- Magrin, Géraud
Organization(s):
- Agence Française de Développement, FR
- Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), FR
Inclusive business models have attracted renewed interest in recent years, as part of wider debates about growing agricultural investment in developing countries. This report discusses joint ventures in South Africas agricultural sector.
Author(s):
- Lahiff, Edward
- Davis, Nerhene
- Manenzhe, Tshililo
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
- FAO
- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), ZA
The overarching objective of this framework is to contribute to the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) into business activities and to firmly position BES conservation among the private sector by engaging the top management of companies in the development, implementation and
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- United Nations Global Compact
This book is designed to help conservation organisations, community-based organisations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- Kuoni Group, CH
Concerns about food and energy security, coupled with increasing returns from agriculture, have increased interest in agricultural investments in developing countries. Public debates about 'land grabbing' have questioned the socio-economic impacts of large-scale land acquisitions.
Author(s):
- Cooke, Fadzilah Majid
- Toh, Sumei
- Vaz, Justine
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- University of Malaysia Sabah, MY
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
- FAO
Organization(s):
- Climate Action Programme
- UNEP
This publication analyses the challenges, the potential and opportunities of African agribusiness in the current period of dramatic changes in global agro-industrial markets, and builds a case for agribusiness development as a path to Africas prosperity.
Author(s):
- Yumkella, Kandeh K.
- Kormawa, Patrick Momoh-Nuwah
- Roepstorff, Torben M.
- Hawkins, A. M.
Organization(s):
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
One of the pre-requisites in the process of putting in place the Kikuletwa Catchment Forum is development of training materials to be used for Training of Trainers (TOT) programme covering topics in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), entrepreneurships; community participation; gender a
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
- Pangani Basin Water Office (PBWO), TZ
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- Netherlnads, Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)
- UNDP
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- PAMOJA, TZ
- European Commission
This report outlines the advances made by IUCN's Global Business and Biodiversity Programme in working with business to further global conservation goals — from helping develop Holcims Biodiversity Management System to bringing the business voice to CBD negotiations.
Author(s):
- Alvarez, Juan Marco
- Athanas, Andrea
- Borges, Maria Ana
- Carbone, Giulia
- Hosack, Dennis
- Koning, Saskia de
- McCormick, Nadine
- Stucki, Virpi
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
The book expresses the ultimate aim that a Blue Economy business model will shift society from scarcity to abundance "with what we have", by tackling issues that cause environmental and related problems in new ways.
La nature est en souffrance. Notre économie est en déroute. Les limites du « toujours plus» sont atteintes. Repeindre sa façade en vert ne suffit plus.
Author(s):
- Haake, Julia
- Gueorguievsky, Basile
Seja bem-vindo à Economia da Biosfera. O que se segue é um informe econômico sobre uma das indústrias que mais prosperarão nas próximas décadas: os serviços ecossistêmicos.
Organization(s):
- Volans, UK
- Global Initiatives, SG
Bienvenido a la Economía de la Biosfera. Lo que sigue es un informe económico sobre una de las industrias que más prosperarán en las próximas décadas: los servicios ecosistémicos.
Organization(s):
- Volans, UK
- Global Initiatives, SG
The Biosphere Economy is a business brief on one of the great boom industries of the coming decades: ecosystem services. The brief draws on ongoing work by Volans, funded by the Tellus Mater Foundation and is designed as a key input to a global business agenda for action.
Organization(s):
- Volans, UK
- Global Initiatives, SG
This guide was developed to help address issues regarding resource consumption and environmental conservation, efficiency and competitiveness in enterprise management, and sustainable consumption and production.
Organization(s):
- European Union
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- European Commission, Directorate-General Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection
This document is a proposal to Holcim Ltd.
Author(s):
- Gross, Daniel
- Imboden, Christoph
- Meynell, Peter-John
- Richards, David
- Stalmans, Marc
This report is planned to be a useful advisory tool for local and regional policymakers, administrators and managers. The information in this report will also be of interest to organisations such as NGOs, regulatory bodies, permitting agencies and the judicial system.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The TEEB study is underpinned by an assessment of state-of-the-art science and economics. The goal is to provide the conceptual foundation to link economics and ecology and to posit a paradigm of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- IUCN
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Sweden, SIDA
- European Commission
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
A profound retrospective of the first decade of the UN Global Compact, challenges in the light of the year of biodiversity, and instruments for an adequate Corporate Citizenship are some of the issues highlighted in the new 2010 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook.
Organization(s):
- Foundation for the Global Compact, US
- United Nations Global Compact
The TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers was released on September 9, 2010, and includes overviews to the various chapters of the full TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers Report (available from Earthscan or by chapter from the following address:
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The aim of this synthesis is to highlight and illustrate the approach adopted by TEEB: namely to show how economic concepts and tools can help equip society with the means to incorporate the values of nature into decision making at all levels.
Author(s):
- Bishop, Joshua
- Brink, Patrick ten
- Gundimeda, Haripriya
- Kumar, Pushpam
- Nesshöver, Carsten
- Schröter-Schlaack, Christoph
- Simmons, Ben
- Sukhdev, Pavan
- Wittmer, Heidi
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The report reflects the progress made by BBP last year. The stories selected are a balanced representation of BBP's work in 2009 to deliver the IUCN programme for 2009-2012.
Author(s):
- Alvarez, Juan Marco
- Athanas, Andrea
- Borges, Maria Ana
- Carbone, Giulia
- Hosack, Dennis
- Koning, Saskia de
- McCormick, Nadine
- Stucki, Virpi
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
This report provides a summary for the business community, illustrated with examples from a range of companies and sectors. It asks: what are the risks and opportunities to business of ecological change? What is business currently doing about biodiversity and ecosystem services?
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fred Kofman nous invite à réconcilier et organiser les potentialités offertes à l’être humain, en considérant l’entreprise comme une communauté humaine consciente, c'est-à-dire combinant et équilibrant les valeurs émotionnelles, morales, mentales et spirituelles qui la constituent.
This publication is the executive summary for a full report which demonstrates the value of ecosystems and biodiversity to the economy, to society and to individuals. It underlines the urgency of action, as well as the benefits and opportunities that will arise as a result of taking such action.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This TEEB report presents a sub-set of early conclusions which relate to climate change.
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- IUCN
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Sweden, SIDA
- European Commission
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
The report reflects the progress made by BBP in 2008.
Author(s):
- Alvarez, Juan Marco
- Athanas, Andrea
- Borges, Maria Ana
- Carbone, Giulia
- Hosack, Dennis
- Koning, Saskia de
- McCormick, Nadine
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Organization(s):
- Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB)
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Interim Report, a first assessment stemming from a G8+5 initiative sponsored by Germany and the European Commission, points to the growing pressures on biodiversity and ecosystem services across the world and the need for improved valuation metrics for
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norway, [Government]
- Sweden, SIDA
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
- UNEP
- United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This study focused specifically on one perceived opportunity for developing IPES, namely the concept of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD).
Author(s):
- Baranzini, Andrea
- Faust, Anne-Kathrin
- Huberman, David
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- IUCN
- Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG), CH
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
The challenge of building biodiversity business is not trivial. Biodiversity is still largely neglected by private finance.
Author(s):
- Bishop, Joshua
- Hicks, Frank
- Kapila, Sachin
- Mitchell, Paul
- Vorhies, Frank
For some time now, the European Union has been committed to conserving the worlds biodiversity. In November 2007 more than 400 leaders from business, governments, the EU and NGOs met in Lisbon to explore how European business could improve performance through biodiversity responsibility.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade
Author(s):
- Athanas, Andrea
- Bertrand, Nicolas
- Carbone, Giulia
- McCormick, Nadine
- Quaile, Deric
- Rafiq, Mohammad
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
The challenge of building biodiversity business is not trivial. Biodiversity is still largely neglected by private finance.
Author(s):
- Bishop, Joshua
- Hicks, Frank
- Kapila, Sachin
- Mitchell, Paul
- Vorhies, Frank
The book contains 10 chapters on useful strategies and information to help small and/or large conservation organizations succeed in business.
Author(s):
- Dombeck, Michael P.
- Pandolfi, Francis P.
Organization(s):
- IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands
Author(s):
- Athanas, Andrea
- Carbone, Giulia
- McCormick, Nadine
- Quaile, Deric
- Rafiq, Mohammad
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
All economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable supply of ecosystem services.
Organization(s):
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CH
- IUCN
While the business case for climate change is now widely recognized, the business case for biodiversity has only to a limited extent been addressed.
Organization(s):
- Alcoa Foundation
- Alterra
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Author(s):
- Athanas, Andrea
- Bishop, Joshua
- Cassara, Amy
- Donaubauer, Pamela
- Perceval, Chris
- Rafiq, Mohammad
- Ranganathan, Janet
- Risgaard, Pernille
Organization(s):
- Earthwatch Institute, Europe
- IUCN
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CH
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
Organization(s):
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CH
This volume offers anyone in business access to the latest developments in this fast-moving, volatile industry.
Author(s):
- Bovarnick, Andrew
- Gupta, Ajay
Organization(s):
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- UNDP
Author(s):
- Andriof, Jörg
- Waddock, Sandra
- Husted, Bryan
- Rahman, Sandra Sutherland
Author(s):
- Holliday, Charles O. Jr.
- Schmidheiny, Stephan
- Watts, Philip
Author(s):
- Hancock, Pete
- Potts, Frank
Organization(s):
- IUCN Botswana
- CBNRM Support Programme
- SNV Botswana
This handbook provides information on the business case for biodiversity, as well as current biodiversity issues for business, and guidance on corporate biodiversity strategies.
Organization(s):
- Earthwatch Institute, Europe
- IUCN
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CH
Author(s):
- Starkey, Richard
- Welford, Richard
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