Policies must balance forest conservation's local costs with its benefits-local to global-in terms of biodiversity, the mitigation of climate change, and other eco-services such as water quality.
In building a waterfront park, users must consider issues such as biodiversity, flood mitigation, and budget impact.
The 2015 memo seeks to streamline policy that involves managing adverse impacts to biodiversity, known as mitigation, largely by adhering to the mitigation hierarchy and adopting landscape-level planning efforts across all land managing departments.
Ecosystem services provided by the landscapes of regions and cities are critical to human and environmental health, quality of life, environmental justice, biodiversity and climate mitigation and adaptation.
Our framework provides valuable information, with fairly low data requirements, for optimizing biodiversity management and mitigation efforts, aiming to reduce the complex and often synergistic negative impacts of multiple environmental change drivers.
In partnership with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Fiji MCO assists PICs with assessing climate change adaptation, mitigation, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, as well as implementing strategies from such assessments, identifying national capacitites to manage natural resources, and developing capacity to meet obligations to multilateral environment agreements.
There are systems gains for biodiversity, and climate mitigation and adaptation, as well.
Yet the key components of climate-change mitigation and biodiversity protection are missing.
Biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy: a review of current application in the banking sector.
Here we propose a comprehensive framework for advancing both biodiversity and ecosystem service mitigation.
