Tools and Mechanisms

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

http://www.gfcm.org/gfcm

Consisting of 23 Member countries along with the European Union, the GFCM’s objectives are to promote the development, conservation, rational management, and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and connecting waters.

Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain

https://www.globalreporting.org/reporting/reportin...

GRI’s Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) Program is a training and coaching initiative that allows large companies to collaborate with their suppliers. Large companies are increasingly looking at ways to engage their supply chain beyond the top-down approach of monitoring and auditing. The GANTSCh Program creates awareness and ownership of sustainability within the supply chain through the process of sustainability reporting, creating value for both buyer and supplier.

Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain

https://www.globalreporting.org/reporting/reportin...

Through this Global Action Network offshoot, large companies will be able to offer GRI-certified training and one-on-one support to their Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) suppliers in preparing a GRI G3 sustainability report.

Global Aquaculture Alliance

http://www.gaalliance.org/

International, non-profit trade association dedicated to advancing environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture. GAA promotes the Best Aquaculture Practices certification standards for aquaculture seafood. The Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards address environmental and social responsibility, animal welfare, food safety and traceability in a voluntary certification programme for aquaculture facilities.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

http://data.gbif.org

GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, was established in 2001 to take on a special set of tasks that will make it possible for policy- and decision-makers, research scientists and the general public all around the world to electronically access the world's supply of primary scientific data on biodiversity.

Global Bioenergy Partnership

http://www.globalbioenergy.org/

The purpose of the Global Bioenergy Partnership is to provide a mechanism for Partners to organize, coordinate, and implement targeted international research, development, demonstration, and commercial activities related to production, delivery, conversion, and use of biomass for energy, with a focus on developing countries.

GBEP provides also a forum to develop effective policy frameworks to:

• suggest rules and tools to promote sustainable biomass and bioenergy development;
• facilitate investments in bioenergy;
• promote project development and implementation;
• foster R&D and commercial bioenergy activities.

Global Compact Network Germany

http://www.globalcompact.de/index.php?id=30

The Global Compact Network Germany is an active learning and dialog platform for the implementation of the ten Global Compact principles. Biodiversity is one of the priority issues of the network in Germany in 2010.  The German Global Compact network seeks to promote multi-stakeholder dialog and constructive cooperation between government, business and other sectors of society.

Global e-Sustainability Iniviative (GeSI)

http://www.gesi.org/

GeSI was born in 2001 to further sustainable development in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. GeSI fosters global and open cooperation, informs the public of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their sustainability, and promotes technologies that foster sustainable development. GeSI brings together leading ICT companies (including telecommunications service providers, manufacturers, and industry associations) with non-governmental organizations committed to achieving sustainability objectives through innovative technology.

Global Forest & Trade Network

http://gftn.panda.org/

GFTN is a WWF-led partnership endeavoring to create a new market for environmentally responsible forest products, thereby diminishing the incentive to harvest from illegal or controversial wood sources. This is achieved by linking more than 300 companies, communities, NGOs, and entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries around the world.

Global Observatory on Sustainable Tourism (GOST)

http://www.unepie.org/scp/tourism/activities/taskf...

GOST is an initiative set up by the WTO endeavoring to establish a network of observatories at the global, regional, national, and local levels for monitoring, reporting, and sharing of information related to sustainable tourism.