The World Bank is serious about nature conservation
By Hans Friederich, Director of IUCN's Regional Office for Europe. It was really interesting to hear the speech from Rachel Kyte, Vice President Sustainable Development at the World Bank at the...
View ArticlePressing the re-set button
By James Griffiths, Managing Director, Sustainable Forest Products Industry and Ecosystems, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Rich in ideas and information, providing...
View ArticleBiodiversity on the business radar screen
By Violaine Berger, Programme Manager, Ecosystems and Water, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). I am thrilled to be at the Congress this week and participate in all the ongoing...
View ArticleLevelling the playing field – mining and World Heritage
By Anne-Marie Fleury, Director of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) environment programme. This week I took part in a workshop at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that ICMM...
View ArticleReadying markets for conservation – removing the roadblocks
Isabelle Gayral, Ecolaboration manager, Nespresso. What are the factors that prevent business sustainability becoming mainstream and what can be done to overcome them? When IUCN Members were asked this...
View ArticleThe planet’s parliament
By James Griffiths, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). It was back to business for IUCN’s 1,500 or so voting delegates, debating and voting on nearly 200 motions to implement...
View ArticleAçaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?
By Michelle Kovacevic, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). The increased cultivation of açaí — the purple fruit that dangles from palms in the Brazilian rainforest and is touted by many...
View ArticleIntegrating biodiversity into business supply chains
By Kate McCoy, consultant for Nespresso. It’s widely agreed that companies should take responsibility for their environmental impact at every stage of the production process. So it’s not a case of if,...
View ArticleFrom Jeju to Hyderabad – to bee or not to bee?
by Gerard Bos – Head of the IUCN Global Business & Biodiversity Programme Jeju is still fresh in our minds and I could not resist comparing our World Conservation Congress with this 11th Convention...
View ArticleIn good company: Learning about water management and risk
By James Dalton, Coordinator, Global Initiatives, IUCN's Global Water Programme. It has been over three years since we first sat down with CEMEX, the global building materials company headquartered in...
View ArticleWhere nature can offer real business benefits
By Marina Teahon, attending IUCN’s SOS nature – Photographic Exhibition in Geneva. Last week IUCN’s SOS – Save Our Species initiative held a series of Flash Conferences to coincide with their SOS...
View ArticleWild and Fashionable
By Xenya Cherny-Scanlon, Special Assistant to IUCN Director General and expert in sustainable luxury. From wool and leather to perfumes and fine foods, wildlife is a major source of raw materials for...
View ArticleReducing biodiversity risk in business decision-making
By Dr Thomas Brooks, Head of IUCN’s Science and Knowledge Unit. Last year, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) introduced a new set of eight “performance standards” – environmental and social...
View ArticleIs net positive feasible when it comes to water?
It is much more complicated to manage water than carbon and deserves more effort than simply transferring the same metrics, says James Dalton of IUCN’s Water Programme writing for Guardian...
View ArticleHighlighting best practice for green infrastructure audits
By David Beamont, Environmental and Sustainability Manager at the Victoria Business Improvement District, London, UK, and IUCN Member. In 2010, with funding from the London Climate Change Partnership...
View ArticleValuing natural capital: We have the will; let’s show the way
Last week more than 500 people gathered in Edinburgh for the inaugural World Forum on Natural Capital. Dawn Vout, Partnership Manager for the IUCN World Parks Congress, gives this update. From the...
View ArticleEcosystems: where work and leisure overlap!
By Maria Ana Borges of IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme. I really enjoy hiking. This is a good thing if you live in Switzerland, because the hiking options are endless and diverse. Until...
View ArticleGetting down to business in Bhutan
By Jane Lawton, Head of Communications and Business & Biodiversity, IUCN Asia Even as the Druk Air pilots weave in to land at Paro and the wing-tips of the plane appear to almost skim the...
View ArticleShaking the bottle: reforming policy and improving water management
By James Dalton of IUCN’s Global Water Programme. A year ago I wrote a blog post on a workshop that we jointly held with the Ramsar Secretariat in partnership with Danone Waters – the bottled water arm...
View ArticleEurope at a crossroads – let’s take the right road
Luc Bas, Director of IUCN’s European Union Representative Office discusses the opportunities and challenges of a genuine shift towards sustainable development in Europe. In December, 20 civil society...
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