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International Finance Corporation (IFC) Biodiversity Guide The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Its mission is to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries, helping to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. IFC has developed A Guide to Biodiversity for the Private Sector: Why Biodiversity Matters and How It Creates Business Value. This web-based guide is designed to help organizations operating in emerging markets to better understand their relationship to biodiversity issues and how they can effectively manage those issues to improve business performance and benefit from biodiversity. [http://www.ifc.org/BiodiversityGuide] Millennium Development Goals (United Nations) The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The 7th Goal is to ensure environmental sustainability. [http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals] Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is an international initiative launched by the United Nations and led by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) to assess the conditions of the world’s ecosystems. [http://www.millenniumassessment.org] Public-private partnerships Increasingly, partnerships arise between public and private parties. Multiple issues can be addressed through such partnerships and the topic of biodiversity is one of them. Biodiversity is a complex issue to deal with, especially when: • operations are not limited to individual sites; • activities are known for their potential negative impacts on biodiversity; or • areas of high conservation value are not recognized. A partnership can offer assistance by recording impacts and collecting information, developing biodiversity management plans, performing impact assessments, or transferring knowledge. 36 © G R I 2 0 0 7
Annexes R e p o r t i n g o n B i o d i v e r s i t y 37
Page 1 and 2: Equitable Sharing Conservation Sust
Page 3 and 4: Biodiversity a GRI Reporting Resour
Page 5 and 6: The Challenge of Reporting on Biodi
Page 7 and 8: Introduction 1.1 Introduction to th
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Page 11 and 12: Biodiversity: its relationship with
Page 13 and 14: 2.2 International policy framework
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Page 17 and 18: DESCRIBING RELATIONSHIPS: DIRECT AN
Page 19 and 20: 2.5 Implications for reporting Impo
Page 21 and 22: Approaching biodiversity reporting
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Page 27 and 28: CBD Indicators Recognizing the diff
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Page 31 and 32: Internet research can generate some
Page 33 and 34: Global Biodiversity Information Fac
Page 35: Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) The
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