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Private enterprise and competitive consumer markets are key ingredients of economic growth and globalization. They are also central to both biodiversity loss and strategies to conserve and restore nature. A range of approaches have been developed to encourage businesses, private investors and consumers to act more sustainably, for instance through voluntary corporate action, including social and environmental criteria in investment decisions; partnerships between business and conservation organisations, or ‘green’ certification schemes. Considerable analysis has been conducted to assess the successes and failures of these approaches.
The Business and Consumers section is divided into the following sub-categories:
• CSR – the ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ sub-category looks into the business case for going beyond legal requirements on biodiversity.
• SRI – documents in the ‘Social Responsibility Investments’ sub-category look into attempts by finance institutions to incorporate social and environmental criteria in their investment decisions, e.g. through ‘filters’, indices and other instruments.
• Partnerships – this sub-category looks into the issues surrounding partnerships for biodiversity, either at the individual firm, sector or cross-sector level.
• Green enterprise – for documents on small-to-medium enterprise established to address biodiversity conservation, for instance organic agriculture or eco-tourism.
• Consumer preference – for documents on consumption patterns, lifestyle choice, certification and labelling and related issues.
A selection of introductory papers on Business and Consumers is provided below.
Year published: 2004
Editorial document
Year published: 2004
Editorial document
