Guides and best practices

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.

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.

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

Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE)

http://www.ace-cae.eu/public/contents/index/catego...

ACE fosters the use of sustainable principles in architectural design and planning, encouraging the adoption of holistic approaches to the complex issues and interactions that characterise the built environment, thereby ensuring a valuable and balanced legacy for the future. Specific policies related to sustainable construction  include the promotion of sustainable design for resource conservation, energy efficiency, and ecologically and socially sensitive land-use.

Asian Development Bank

http://www.adb.org/Topics/default.asp

ADB is an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people in the Asia and Pacific region.

Associated General Contractors of America

http://www.agc.org/cs/recycling_toolkit

A construction industry association operating in partnership with its nationwide network providing a range of services in order to improve the quality of construction and protecting the public interest. It has also produced a toolkit for recycling materials.