Authors:
IUCN-ICMM Eden Project post mining alliance
Publication Date:
2008
Abstract/Summary:
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) launched a joint dialogue on mining and biodiversity1. The overarching aims of the
dialogue are:
To improve the performance of mining industries in the area of biodiversity conservation, with a focus on reducing the negative impacts of the industry’s operations and enhancing the industry’s positive contribution to biodiversity; and
To raise mutual awareness and understanding between the conservation community and the mining industry, so that both can contribute to improved
outcomes for conservation and development in areas where they interact.
To further the discussion relating to the restoration of legacy sites, the Post-Mining Alliance was engaged by ICMM and IUCN in 2007 to organize and develop materials for an international roundtable of experts in this field in March 2008. This report is the result.
Relevance for the Short Term Action Plan on Ecosystem
Restoration:
Highly important
- A1: Assess degraded ecosystems
- A2: Identify/prioritize locations for meeting national contributions to Aichi Targets
- A3: Involve all relevant stakeholders
- A4: Assess the costs/benefits of ecosystem restoration
- A5: Assess institutional, policy, and legal frameworks & identify financial/technical resources
- A6: Identify options to reduce the drivers biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation
- B1: Review, improve or establish legal, policy and financial frameworks for restoration
- B2: Review, improve or establish a legal and policy framework for land tenure
- B3: Promote and strengthen formal and informal education systems
- B4: Review, improve or establish terrestrial and marine spatial planning processes
- B5: Consider the need for safeguard measures
- B6: Review, improve or establish targets, policies and strategies for ecosystem restoration
- B7: Develop accounting processes
- B8: Promote economic and financial incentives
- B9: Develop plans for resource mobilization
- B10: Promote and support capacity-building, training, and technology transfer
- C1: Identify appropriate measures for conducting ecosystem restoration
- C2: Consider how restoration can support sustainability of agriculture/production
- C3: Develop ecosystem restoration plans with clear/measurable objectives and goals
- C4: Develop explicit implementation tasks, schedules, and budgets
- C5: Implement the measures
- D1: Assess the efficacy and effects of implementing the ecosystem restoration plan
- D2: Adjust plans, expectations, procedures, and monitoring through adaptive management
- D3: Share lessons learned from planning, financing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration plans
Resource Type:
Web-based Resource
Source:
IUCN
Link:
https://www.iucn.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/global-2008-iucn-icmm-dialogue-review.pdf