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arrow Millennium Development Goals: The links with biodiversity.
arrow Causes of decline of the biodiversity: The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
arrow Relevance of valuing ecosystem goods and services in impact assessment.
arrow Global and national imperatives for pursuing biodiversity in impact assessment.
arrow A walk-through the different stages of EIA framework for sharing ‘how to’ mainstream biodiversity in the assessment framework.
arrow Introduction to tools and techniques for establishing biological/ecological baselines for evaluation of impacts on biodiversity.
arrow Importance of integrating economic valuation approach in biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment.
arrow Re-tooling the generic EA framework for integrating economic evaluation approaches for assessing impacts of economic development on biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods.
arrow Introduction to a range of economic tools and techniques for valuing biodiversity.
arrow Best practice guidance tools.
arrow Defining mitigation and presenting the hierarchy of measures for mitigating impacts on biodiversity.
arrow Discuss range of best practice mitigation options including precautionary approaches.
arrow The concept of biodiversity offsets.
arrow Case studies demonstrating applications of offsets.
arrow Role play exercise (for understanding the dynamics of decision-making of an oil & gas development project).