Guides and best practices

Catalogue of Life

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/search.php

The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life endeavors to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. Rapid progress has recently been made, and the Catalogue of Life contained 1,347,224 species as of May 2012. This figure may represent slightly over 2/3rds of the world's known species.

Center for Environmental Leadership in Business

http://www.conservation.org/GLOBAL/CELB/Pages/main...

The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business engages corporations to minimize environmental impacts and to harness private sector ingenuity on behalf of healthy ecosystems and human well-being.

Center for Small Business and the Environment

http://www.aboutcsbe.org/about.html

CSBE operates as a grassroots voluntary network of small business people who share the belief that entrepreneurial creativity and drive can protect the environment while creating jobs and economic growth. CSBE has identified and promoted profitable and successful small business models for environmental action.

Central American Markets for Biodiversity

http://www.proyectocambio.org/english/index.html

Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation and sustainable use within micro, small and medium sized enterprise development and finance

Central American Markets for Biodiversity

http://www.proyectocambio.org/english/index.html

Project activities are designed to ensure that SMEs of Central America increasingly contribute to sustainable development and environmental protection, incorporating ways of addressing issues related to the loss of biodiversity in their business practices. The project removes barriers in banking, business, policy, and legislation to create an enabling environment that can catalyze biodiversity-friendly investments within sectors such as organic agriculture, sustainable forestry, agroforestry, silvopastoral systems, sustainable tourism, aquaculture certified, and sustainable fishery.

Ceres

http://www.ceres.org/

Ceres is an advocate for sustainability leadership with a focus on governance, engagement, disclosure, and sustainable performance. Ceres mobilizes a powerful network of investors,
companies, and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable
business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy. 

Chain-wide Learning for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development: A guide to multi-stakeholder processes for linking small-scale producers to modern markets.

http://www.regoverningmarkets.org/en/filemanager/a...

As modern markets replace traditional markets, outlets for small-scale producesr are reduced, risking increasing poverty for producers and entire rural communities. However, with the right kind of support, small-scale producers can be efficient and reliable providers of quality produce; in other words good business partners. This guide provides practical ways to enhance opportunities for small-scale producers in modern agrifood markets. Users may be market actors interested in creating direct links with small-scale suppliers, government policy-makers tasked with rural development, producer organisations working for their members, NGOs working for the rural poor, or researchers working to understand and support processes aimed at greater inclusion of small-scale producers.

CITES Trade database

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/citestrade/trade.cfm

The CITES Trade database is a unique resource with more than 10 million records of trade in wildlife and over 50,000 scientific names of taxa listed by CITES.  Currently, more than 750,000 records of trade in CITES-listed species of wildlife are reported annually.

Citizens Environmental Foundation (Kankyo Shimin)

http://www.kankyoshimin.org/modules/english/index....

The CEF was established in 1992 as a non governmental organization to cope with various environmental problems. It coordinates practical activities, forms various project-specific study and research groups, and makes suggestions according to requests from various organization and companies.  Lastly, it provides information and opportunities to people interested in environmental issues.

Climate & Biodiversity Nexus (CB NEX)

http://www.cbnex.com/

CB NEX is a platform designed to use social media in conjunction with the main website to connect people and organisations to climate change and biodiversity resources.