Guidelines on Business and KBAs: Managing Risk to Biodiversity
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UNCCD Library
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978-2-8317-1894-1
The destruction, degradation, and overexploitation of natural habitats is leading to a rapid loss of biodiversity, jeopardising the ecosystem services upon which human society depends. To halt this trend, it is vital to know which places on the planet make particularly significant contributions to the global persistence of biodiversity, so that we can facilitate management of these areas and ensure that they continue to support their important species, ecosystems, and genetic diversity.
Responding to this need, IUCN’s WCPA-SSC Joint Task Force on Biodiversity and Protected Areas led a multi-year consultation process to develop a set of globally standardised, quantitative criteria for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) worldwide. A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas provides an overarching common framework for the identification of sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity.
Since its launch at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2016, the KBA Standard has been an important step forward for global biodiversity conservation. Building on this effort, 12 of the world’s leading nature conservation organisations have launched an ambitious new Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership, to map, monitor, and conserve the most important places for life on earth.
The KBA Standard also offers a platform to reach out to the many key actors who have the ability to both positively and negatively affect biodiversity conservation, in particular the business community. Given that some business activities can have a significant role in driving biodiversity loss – for example through land-use changes, pollution, or introduction of invasive species – stemming the global biodiversity crisis requires mainstreaming best practices for mitigating biodiversity risks and impacts into all facets of business operations.
About:The Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Partnership is made up of 12 of the world´s leading international nature
conservation organizations. Together, they will mobilise the expertise, experience and resources of the partner organizations to:
• Identify, map, document and monitor KBAs worldwide
• Promote targeted conservation actions in KBAs and
• Inform and influence public policy and private sector decision-making to safeguard KBAs and ensure their
effective conservation.
Responding to this need, IUCN’s WCPA-SSC Joint Task Force on Biodiversity and Protected Areas led a multi-year consultation process to develop a set of globally standardised, quantitative criteria for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) worldwide. A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas provides an overarching common framework for the identification of sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity.
Since its launch at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2016, the KBA Standard has been an important step forward for global biodiversity conservation. Building on this effort, 12 of the world’s leading nature conservation organisations have launched an ambitious new Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership, to map, monitor, and conserve the most important places for life on earth.
The KBA Standard also offers a platform to reach out to the many key actors who have the ability to both positively and negatively affect biodiversity conservation, in particular the business community. Given that some business activities can have a significant role in driving biodiversity loss – for example through land-use changes, pollution, or introduction of invasive species – stemming the global biodiversity crisis requires mainstreaming best practices for mitigating biodiversity risks and impacts into all facets of business operations.
About:The Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Partnership is made up of 12 of the world´s leading international nature
conservation organizations. Together, they will mobilise the expertise, experience and resources of the partner organizations to:
• Identify, map, document and monitor KBAs worldwide
• Promote targeted conservation actions in KBAs and
• Inform and influence public policy and private sector decision-making to safeguard KBAs and ensure their
effective conservation.
Keywords
biodiversity conservation
biodiversity hotspots
public-private partnership
financial assistance
best practices
business opportunities
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