Biodiversity - a GRI Reporting Resource - Global Reporting Initiative

Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)
The Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) is an information exchange mechanism established by the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to assist Parties to the Protocol in implementing its provisions and to
facilitate sharing of information on, and experience with, living modified organisms (LMOs).
[http://bch.biodiv.org]
Business & Biodiversity Resource Centre (BBRC)
The Business & Biodiversity Resource Centre can assist organizations in unravelling the
important role that biodiversity plays in business. The Centre provides information on how
different sectors impact wildlife and nature, and what organizations are doing to help conserve
and manage biodiversity. The Resource Centre is hosted by Earthwatch Institute (Europe) and
supported by English Nature and DEFRA.
[http://www.businessandbiodiversity.org]
Clearing-House Mechanism of the CBD
The Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) aims to
promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation within and between countries,
develop a global mechanism for exchanging and integrating information on biodiversity, and
develop the necessary human and technological network.
[http://www.biodiv.org/chm/]
Conservation Commons
The Conservation Commons is a collaborative effort of non-governmental organizations,
international and multi-lateral organizations, governments, academia, and the private sector, to
improve open access to data, information, and knowledge related to the conservation and sustainable
use of biodiversity with the belief that this will contribute to improving conservation outcomes.
[http://www.conservationcommons.org]
Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP)
The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) is a partnership of conservation non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) that seek better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts
of their conservation actions. CMP is developing standard taxonomies to help industry and other
sectors assess their conservation actions, management, and impacts, including the Taxonomy of
Direct Threats and the Taxonomy of Conservation Action (both available on the CMP website).
[http://www.conservationmeasures.org]
Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF)
The Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) was founded in 1993 by IUCN, WRI, UNEP, and ACTS,
and includes a number of other institutions as its conveners. It is an open and independent
mechanism to encourage analysis, dialogue, and partnership on key ecological, economic,
social, and institutional issues related to biodiversity. It contributes to the further development
and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Ramsar Convention,
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and other biodiversity-related conventions at
the local, national, regional and international levels.
[http://www.gbf.ch]
R e p o r t i n g o n B i o d i v e r s i t y
35