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Biodiversity is fundamental to sustaining life. In order to maintain biodiversity, the OECD recognizes a need for economic valuation of ecological services, sustainable use opportunities through economic incentives, such as market creation, and indicators of key biodiversity variables.
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13-Jul-2009
The OECD convened an expert workshop on Innovative International Financing for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable use on July 2nd, 2009. The workshop was attended by more than 40 participants, including delegates from the OECD Working Group on the Economic Aspects of Biodiversity (WGEAB), developing country participants (including Brazil, Peru and Uganda), experts from the CBD, IUCN, UNEP and the GEF, as well as other NGOs and the private sector.
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15-Jun-2009
Biodiversity policies promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats. In doing so, they create significant public benefits and contribute to social well-being.
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15-Jun-2009
In 2008, the OECD Working Group on Economic Aspects of Biodiversity undertook a review of country implementation of the Council Recommendation.
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01-Apr-2008
On March 26 2008, a Workshop on “Incentives to Capture the Biodiversity and Carbon Benefits for Reducing Deforestation: Linkages, Synergies and Limitations” was held in Paris...
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