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  Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities.

  World Conservation Union, 2007

  This study assesses what evidence there is of the biodiversity business case from a financial sector’s perspective and what types of biodiversity business risks  financial institutions can be exposed to.
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  The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2007

  This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.
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  Is biodiversity a material risk for companies?

  F&C Asset Management plc, 2004

  This report examines the nature of the relationship between biodiversity and business, the specific sectors and risks involved, and whether the risks are material. It looks at:
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  A guide to biodiversity for the private sector: why biodiversity matters and how it creates business value

  International Finance Corporation, 2005

  Managing risk and securing corporate opportunities are cornerstones of business, but these can be obscured for many private sector companies when addressing biodiversity. Biodiversity is a broad term, subject to different definitions and different value interpretations. It is a global concept but decisions often play out at the local level.
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  The oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).
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  Biodiversity offsets: views, experience and the business case

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This report explores the potential of biodiversity offsets, which the authors define as conservation activities that intend to compensate for the residual and unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects.
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  A conflict of interests: the uncertain future of Burma's forests

  Global Witness, 2004

  Burma is resource rich, and principal among these resources is timber.
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  Can a financial instrument improve the management of natural ecosystems?

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This report highlights the opportunities presented by the 2000 Amendment to the 1995 Pensions Act in the UK to improve companies’ management of natural capital, including ecosystems, the services they deliver and the millions of animal and plant species that constitute biological diversity.Highlights of the report include:the Amendment can play a role in improving the management of natu
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  Business and biodiversity: the handbook for corporate action

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  The handbook makes the case for integrating biodiversity considerations and actions into daily activities and planning of businesses.
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  Global trade and consumer choices: coral reefs in crisis

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002

  The document contains five papers presented at a symposium.The first presents an overview of the value of coral reef ecosystems to developing countries the impacts of international trade on coral reefs and local communitiesthe role of the U.S.

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