Biodiversity - a GRI Reporting Resource - Global Reporting Initiative
Biodiversity - a GRI Reporting Resource - Global Reporting Initiative
Biodiversity - a GRI Reporting Resource - Global Reporting Initiative
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International Finance Corporation (IFC) <strong>Biodiversity</strong> Guide<br />
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.<br />
Its mission is to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries, helping<br />
to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. IFC has developed A Guide to <strong>Biodiversity</strong> for the<br />
Private Sector: Why <strong>Biodiversity</strong> Matters and How It Creates Business Value. This web-based<br />
guide is designed to help organizations operating in emerging markets to better understand<br />
their relationship to biodiversity issues and how they can effectively manage those issues to<br />
improve business performance and benefit from biodiversity.<br />
[http://www.ifc.org/<strong>Biodiversity</strong>Guide]<br />
Millennium Development Goals (United Nations)<br />
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty<br />
to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target<br />
date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading<br />
development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of<br />
the world’s poorest. The 7th Goal is to ensure environmental sustainability.<br />
[http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals]<br />
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)<br />
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is an international initiative launched by the<br />
United Nations and led by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World<br />
<strong>Resource</strong>s Institute (WRI) to assess the conditions of the world’s ecosystems.<br />
[http://www.millenniumassessment.org]<br />
Public-private partnerships<br />
Increasingly, partnerships arise between public and private parties. Multiple issues can be<br />
addressed through such partnerships and the topic of biodiversity is one of them. <strong>Biodiversity</strong><br />
is a complex issue to deal with, especially when:<br />
• operations are not limited to individual sites;<br />
• activities are known for their potential negative impacts on biodiversity; or<br />
• areas of high conservation value are not recognized.<br />
A partnership can offer assistance by recording impacts and collecting information, developing<br />
biodiversity management plans, performing impact assessments, or transferring knowledge.<br />
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