Using strategic environmental assessment tools for biodiversity planning

Strategic environmental assessment facilitates the systematic analyses of the environmental impacts of proposed policies, plans and programmes. Countries and international finance institutions should introduce and/or carry out strategic environmental assessments with the appropriate participation of NGOs and citizens with a view to the integration of environmental and biodiversity considerations in the decision-making process.

1. Using economic tools for biodiversity conservation
2. Strategic planning

1. Conducting natural resources damage assessments

1. Identifying priorities for national environmental action plans

1. Ranking environmental problems for national environmental action plans
2. Integrating biodiversity conservation strategies

1. Lack of integrated management of biodiversity
2. Inadequate management capacity for biodiversity conservation

1. Unstrategic