Measuring a company's biodiversity footprint.Unlike climate change mitigation which is gradually mainstreamed into business strategies and activities, biodiversity still struggles to be recognized as a major issue for businesses and financial institutions due to its...
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Reports
How sectors can contribute to sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity
Technical Background 79 report to the fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO4).Developments in sectors such as agriculture, wood production, water management and fisheries largely shape the world’s current and future biodiversity, as they exert direct pressures on...
Roads from Rio+20
Pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050.The report Roads from Rio+20 analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the...
Rethinking Global Biodiversity Strategies
Exploring structural changes in production and consumption to reduce biodiversity lossThe mere protection of valuable nature areas, although still necessary, will not be sufficient for reducing global biodiversity loss in the coming decades. Population growth and...
International review of the GLOBIO model version 3
Review: GLOBIO3 is well suited to play an important role in biodiversity assessments.In April 2005, a review committee gathered to assess the scientifically validity and policy-relevance of the GLOBIO3 model as part of the International Biodiversity project. Four...
Globio: global methodology for mapping human impacts on the biosphere
The Arctic 2050 scenario and global application.GLOBIO was initiated to provide an inexpensive, simple scientifically based communication tool for mapping, at large scale, the likelihood of human impacts on the biosphere resulting from increasing growth in resource...