Training objectives

	Focus on how impacts assessment can help to protect ecosystems from development and how to invest in managing ecosystems for development.
	Stimulate the importance of integrating economic and ecological valuation approaches and their applicability in valuing biodiversity.
	Re-examine available and potential ecological solutions for countering economic crisis.
	Re-visit a range of mitigation approaches including offsets, CDMs and other market based and regulatory options for encouraging green development planning.

Target group

For business community, the course will help make the transition to a “green” economy. For investors, the course will reaffirm the faith that greening is a new engine for growth. For decision makers, it will help make informed choices about development models that combine biodiversity conservation, profitability and sustainability. For EA professionals, it will help explore mainstreaming tools for biodiversity and ecosystem services. For those in the government, the course will highlight the need for making reforms in environmental governance for green and sustainable development.