Biological diversity

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. It explores and gives practical guidance on how to deal with the challenge of biodiversity loss at a local and regional level.

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. This aspect of the study tackles the challenges of valuing ecosystem services, as well as issues related to economic discounting.

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. The report shows that the cost of sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services is lower than the cost of allowing biodiversity and ecosystem services to dwindle.

This report has been commissioned by the Atoll Ecosystem Conservation Project at the Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Government of Maldives, and its main objective is to quantify and demonstrate the economic value of the Maldivian coastal and marine biodiversity; and to provide an economic rationale for biodiversity conservation.

Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in the Eastern Himalaya region is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity, and the ecosystem requirements of biodiversity are frequently not considered in the development planning process.

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. One chapter is entirely devoted to biodiversity.

La présente étude propose donc d’effectuer un état des lieux de la prise en compte de la biodiversité par les signes de reconnaissance du secteur agricole sur la base d’une analyse des cahiers des charges d’un échantillon de ceux-ci. L’état des lieux permettra d’identifier les marges de manoeuvre possibles pour faire évoluer cette prise en compte.

Le livre se propose de décrire les modes de vie des différentes communautés présentes le long du littoral de la Mauritanie à la Guinée, en montrant comment ils ont été façonnés par la nature et ont, en retour, façonné les paysages et la biodiversité. Il est accompagné d'un documentaire sur cette zone.

Ce rapport propose de dresser un panorama synthétique de l'implication des collectivités en faveur de la biodiversité sur la base des contributions des membres du Groupe de travail. Il rappelle tout d'abord le constat de l'érosion de la biodiversité au niveau local, présente l'évolution du contexte institutionnel, et dresse la liste des compétences des collectivités territoriales en matière de biodiversité.

Cet ouvrage vous présente l’éventail des outils dédiés à la conservation des espaces naturels en France métropolitaine et d’outre-mer, qu’ils soient réglementaires, contractuels ou fonciers. Cette diversité est un atout et une richesse : ils offrent la possibilité de s’adapter aux différentes situations rencontrées et aux différents objectifs de protection recherchés.