Sport can have significant negative impacts on biodiversity, through the construction and use of sports venues and the staging of sporting events. Understanding and managing the potential negative impacts and opportunities for conservation is vital for ensuring that sports venues and sporting events deliver successfully both from the financial and operational standpoint.
This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.
This guide aims to assist companies, which are interested in transforming their operations to meet today’s widely-accepted global goals for biodiversity and sustainable development. It reflects input from numerous IUCN colleagues, partners and experts, who are actively engaged in on-site biodiversity management.
The highlights featured in this report showcase a variety of IUCN's engagement with business, but it is only a sampling of the outreach underway with its Members, volunteer experts, and colleagues around the world.
IUCN collaborates with business at the company and sector level as well as across sectors. It also works with key associations and organisations concerned with promoting good business practices. Throughout 2016, the Business and Biodiversity Programme has continued to advance partnership activities. This latest issue of the Highlights report features some of the recent initiatives by IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme.
This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.
This report draws widely from the diverse experience of landscape partnerships to analyze the challenges and opportunities for businesses and their partners, and lays out critical actions needed by businesses themselves, and by financial institutions, governments and landscape programs, to improve the effectiveness of landscape partnerships and replicate the approach in many more places.
