Tools and Mechanisms

2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership

http://www.twentyten.net/

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership is a global initiative to track progress towards achieving the "2010 biodiversity target" to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

A Business Guide to Development Actors (WBCSD)

http://www.wbcsd.org/web/publications/sl-devactors...

The Business Guide to Development Actors is a guide for business managers looking to work with development organizations. This document provides business-oriented profiles of organizations in the sustainable development community. The profiles are prefaced by an analysis of the expanding scope for collaboration between the private sector and development organizations.

A Gateway to Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)

http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/a_gateway_to_pes...

The main objective of this work is to provide an introduction and sense of direction (i.e. a “Gateway”) into the complicated world of PES. It is not intended as a comprehensive overview of this vast field, but rather provides one entry point for engaging in PES. It was designed to fit into the broader Livelihoods and Landscapes (LLS) strategy, as developed by IUCN’s Forest Conservation Programme.

A Guide to Biodiversity for the Private Sector (International Finance Corporation)

http://www.ifc.org/biodiversityguide

This guide is designed to help companies operating in emerging markets better understand their relationship to biodiversity issues and how they can effectively manage those issues to improve business performance and benefit from biodiversity.

ACS Green Chemistry Institute

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfp...

The mission of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® (ACS GCI) is to enable and catalyze the implementation of green chemistry and engineering principles into all aspects of the global chemical enterprise.

Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/addis-gdl-en.p...

The Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity consist of fourteen interdependent practical principles, operational guidelines, and a few instruments for their implementation that govern the uses of components of biodiversity to ensure the sustainability of such uses. The principles provide a framework for advising Governments, resource managers, indigenous and local communities, the  private sector, and other stakeholders about how they can ensure that their use of the components of biodiversity will not lead to the long-term decline of biological diversity.

African Biodiversity Conservation and Innovations Centre (ABCIC)

http://www.abcic.org/

The ABCIC is a non-profit regional organization enhancing the conservation and sustainable utilization of biodiversity for posterity, environmental preservation, and sustenance of livelihoods for the African rural communities. ABCIC primarily focuses on agrobiodiversity and adopts an integrated approach that carefully balances conservation imperatives with the sustainable use by facilitating and promoting production, product development, and enhanced marketing of biodiversity-related products through a value chain approach.

Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas

http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/003/x3130m/X3130...

Improves the regulation of fishing vessels on the high seas by strengthening ‘flag-state responsibility'. Parties to the Agreement must ensure that they maintain an authorisation and recording system for high seas fishing vessels and that these vessels do not undermine international conservation and management measures.

Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM)

http://www.communitymining.org/index.php/en/fairtr...

ARM's mission is to set standards for responsible ASM and to support and enable producers to deliver "fairmined" certified metals and minerals through economically-just supply chains to the markets. The ARM endeavours to contribute towards the transformation of ASM into a socially and environmentally responsible activity, and to the improvement of·the quality of life of marginalized artisanal miners, their families, and communities.

Aluminium For Future Generations

http://www.world-aluminium.org/Sustainability/Envi...

The Aluminium for Future Generations initiative is a programme of continuous improvement on the part of the global aluminium industry, overseen by the International Aluminium Institute.  It comprises thirteen voluntary objectives, covering all key phases of aluminium’s life cycle. 

Reports of note include:

• Life Cycle Assessment of Aluminium: Inventory Data for the Primary Aluminium Industry (2007).
• Sustainable Bauxite mining report (2008).

See also:

• greenbuilding.world-aluminium.org
• transport.world-aluminium.org
• bauxite.world-aluminium.org
• packaging.world-aluminium.org
• recycling.world-aluminium.org