What do you know about eco-labelling and certification in your community?

31 March 2010. In the framework of the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) D2 Report which focuses on local authorities, the Countdown 2010 Secretariat would like to ask its local and regional authority partners to share your experience on certification schemes.

Please take two minutes of your time to answer a short questionnaire. Click here to start. Please consider that the TEEB team is interested in certification schemes that aim at conserving biodiversity or ecosystem services: any services that are of value to humans from nature e.g.: food provision, leisure and recreation, bioremediation of waste, nutrient cycling and raw materials.

If you would like to tell more about your experience, please provide your contact details to Silvia Wissel at silvia.wissel@ufz.de who will contact you to get more information.

TEEB aims to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing cost of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. The TEEB D2 Report to be released later this year will be a needs-oriented, richly informative, up-to-date account of the most relevant issues, instruments and examples-of-application for better considering biodiversity and ecosystem services in local/regional policy and public management. One instrument that might be useful to do this is eco-labelling and certification.

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