Tools and Mechanisms

Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)

http://www.bettercotton.org/

BCI provides principles and criteria for cotton production that include general biodiversity considerations, and works with farmers and other stakeholders in the supply chain to share best practices and knowledge. BCI aims to promote measurable improvements in the key environmental and social impacts of cotton cultivation worldwide to make it more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable

Better Sugarcane Initiative

http://www.bonsucro.com/

Bonsucro is a multistakeholder collaboration working to provide standards and a certification scheme incorporating a set of principles, criteria, indicators and verifiers that certify farmers who produce sustainable sugar. The standard contains specific reference to biodiversity and was finalised in November 2009.

Biodiversity Agriculture Support Center (Seibutsutayousei Nougyou Shien Center)

http://basc.jp/files/basc_profile_en.pdf

A non-profit organization investigating ecosystems in the paddy fields. The center aims to spread agricultural practices which promote paddy-field biodiversity, assist farmer who are employing the practices, and form links between farmers and consumers.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Work Stream

http://www.unepfi.org/work_streams/biodiversity/in...

UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) is a global partnership between UNEP and the financial sector. Over 180 institutions, including banks, insurers and fund managers, work with UNEP to understand the impacts of environmental and social considerations on financial performance. The objective of the ambitious UNEP FI Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Work Stream is to assist the financial services sector in addressing the challenges arising from the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services. Currently the group consists over 20 members.

Biodiversity and Wine Initiative

http://www.wwf.org.za/what_we_do/outstanding_place...

Partnership between the South African wine industry and the conservation sector.  The goals are to minimise the further loss of threatened natural habitat and to contribute to sustainable wine production through the adoption of biodiversity guidelines. Brand differentiation based on a proactive stance on biodiversity is a feature of the initiative.

Biodiversity for Development (UNDP)

http://www.undp.org/biodiversity/docs/PRIMER.pdf

South Africa’s landscape approach to conserving biodiversity and promoting ecosystem resilience

Biodiversity Neutral Initiative

http://www.business-biodiversity.eu/default.asp?Me...

Biodiversity Neutral Initiative (BNI) helps companies assess biodiversity impacts, implement best practices with respect to the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy and then offset net residual damage to become biodiversity neutral. Biodiversity Neutral Initiative (BNI) is global in scope, collaborating with major international conservation groups, energy and mining companies, socially responsible investors, auditing and certification companies, and government regulators.

Biodiversity Quickscan (VBDO and CREM)

http://www.vbdo.nl/

A Dutch organization of investors for sustainable development. They developed a tool for the financial and food sectors that uses a number of steps to quickly measure the biodiversity impact of a company for the purpose of investment evaluation.

Biomimicry Institute

http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org

The Biomimicry Institute is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators who can use those models to create sustainable technologies. Also offered are training and accreditation.

Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

http://bio.org/ip/international

BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,150 members worldwide. BIO engages in the discussions on a possible patent law harmonization treaty within WIPO, the WTO TRIPS process, as well is actively engaged in the deliberations of the Intergovernmental Committee on Folklore, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources of the World Intellectual Property Organization and in various forums within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).