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    OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: a summary

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.
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    The environment and poverty times

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor.
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    Effect of climate change on biodiversity in Lebanon: a preliminary review

    Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, 2008
    Lebanon does not currently have baseline data on which to formulate climate adaptation and mitigation measures. This paper aims to prompt dialogue on the anticipated impact of climate change on the country, acting as a preliminary literature review and consulting experts to identify key species in Lebanon which may be impacted by it.
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    Swaziland: the myth of sustainable plantations

    World Rainforest Movement, 2007
    Swaziland’s timber plantations have been held up as a model of sustainable forestry management, where other plantations around the world are considered to have had negative environmental and social impacts.
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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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    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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