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  Markets for ecosystem services: new challenges and opportunities for business and the environment

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2007

  The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential for mobilising business and markets to conserve nature. It argues that market mechanisms can be a powerful complement to existing strategies for conserving ecosystems, if used in the right way.
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  Patents: taken for granted in plans for a global biofuels market

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2007

  Understanding patent policy is crucial for predicting how the biofuels technologies can aid or hinder sustainable development. This article examines the influence that patents will have on the biofuel trade and stakeholders involved.
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  Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

  Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007

  This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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  A mine of information? Improving communication around the Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in Madagascar

  Panos Institute, London, 2007

  Differences of understanding over a new mining project in Southern Madagascar have led to mistrust and social conflict which, unless addressed, could escalate.
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  CEO briefing - biodiversity and ecosystem services: bloom or bust?

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2007

  It is becoming an issue of global policy that the benefits provided by biodiversity are valued and accounted for within traditional business risk frameworks. This paper highlights that the finance sector can play a significant role in incentivising this based on arguments of investment risk and return and business opportunity.
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  UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative: BioTrade principles and criteria

  Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD, 2007

  The BioTrade principles and criteria have been defined by the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the BioTrade national programmes, and provide the core of the conceptual framework underlying the BioTrade Initiative's activities. They take into account the relevance of trade for specific species and ecosystems. This paper sets out the criteria to which BioTrade actors should aspire.
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  Women in backyards: root crop production and biodiversity management in backyards: a case study in five selected woredas of Tigray regional state, Northern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  How can women produce and benefit better from their backyards? How to introduce drought resistant and highly nutritional root crops along while maintaining the biodiversity of plants in backyards? This paper aims to contribute to food self-sufficiency and improve the nutritional status of poor women headed households and poor families in Tigray, Ethiopia.
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  Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007

  Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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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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  Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

  International Development Research Centre, 2007

  Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.

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