Activity 8: Implement impact assessment
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Component 1: Implement impact assessment
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop, review, amend and implement practices, including impact assessment and valuation, to ensure that the Convention is fully applied: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008: Operational Objective 2.2
- Make every effort, when implementing the UNFCCC, that implementation does not damage wetlands, using environmental impact assessment: Ramsar Resolution VIII.3, 17
- Make use of the CBD Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 10 SEE COMMENTARY 1+2
- Make use of the tools on impact assessment compiled by IUCN: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 11
- Establish contact with the national contact points of the International Association of Impact Assessment: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 17 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Use impact assessments for the adoption of targets for wetland conservation and management: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 19
- Integrate cultural and social impact criteria into environmental assessments: Ramsar Resolution VIII.19, 19d
- Ensure that any projects, plans, programmes and policies with potentially altering the ecological character of Ramsar sites or other wetlands are subjected to rigorous impact assessment procedures: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 10: SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Ensure that impact assessment procedures identify the true values of wetland ecosystems: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 11
- Ensure that impact assessment processes relating to wetlands are undertaken in a transparent and participatory manner: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 12
- Apply the Framework for designing a wetland monitoring programme and the Wetland Risk Assessment Framework as part of your impact assessment practices for Ramsar sites: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 13
- Seek cooperative approaches to impact assessment with neighbouring countries for shared wetlands and river basins: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 14
- Ensure that all foreign investment activities relating to wetlands are subject to impact assessments: Ramsar Resolution VII.19, 10vi
- Integrate environmental considerations in relation to wetlands into planning decisions: Ramsar Recommendation 6.2, 5
- Ensure that strategic planning in coastal zones as well as environmental impact assessments are carried out competently and in a timely fashion: Ramsar Recommendation 6.8, 10
- Development agencies to ensure that project funding is preceded by an environmental impact assessment: Ramsar Recommendation 3.4
- In case of projected large-scale wetland transformation, do not take a decision until an assessment of all values involved has been made: Ramsar Recommendation 1.6: SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Apply impact assessments to projects that potentially impact negatively on inland water biodiversity: CBD Decision VII/4, 7 and CBD Decision VII/4, Annex (Revised programme of work on inland water biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 5
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Introduce procedures for environmental impact assessment: CBD Article 14a
- Introduce arrangements to ensure that the envirornmental consequences of programmes and policies that are likely to have adverse impacts on biodiversity are taken into account: CBD Article 14b
- Initiate a legal and institutional review of cultural, environmental and social impact assessment: CBD Decision VII/16, F 2
- Make use of the Akwé: Kon guidelines: CBD Decision VII/16, F 3 and CBD Decision VII/16, F 6
- Regarding developments proposed for sacred sites and land and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous and local communities: CBD Decision VII/16, F 9
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• Promote their participation in relevant bodies and assessments
• Ensure full transparency of the assessment process; see also CBD Decision VII/16, F 13
• Facilitate the exchange of information among all stakeholders
• Provide the necessary capacity and funding
- Support indigenous and local communities in their own community development and biodiversity conservation plans including strategic environmental assessment policies: CBD Decision VII/16, F
- Conduct impact and risk assessments: CBD Decision VII/29, 2 and CBD Decision VII/29, Annex (Programme of work on technology transfer and technological and scientific cooperation) SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Integrate concerns relating to biodiversity and the MDGs into environmental impact assessments and strategic environmental assessments: CBD Decision VII/32, 1: SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Apply the guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation: CBD Decision VI/7, A2 (part 1) SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Address in environmental impact assessments biodiversity loss and interrelated socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts: CBD Decision V/18, 1b
- Consider biodiversity concerns when drafting environmental impact assessment-related legislative and regulatory frameworks: CBD Decision V/18, c: SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Organize meetings, training and educational programmes for environmental impact assessment: CBD Decision V/18, 1e
- Include in your national reports information on strategic environmental and impact assessment: CBD Decision V/18, 3
- Pay attention to the need to implement a mix of instruments for sustainable use of biodiversity, including environmental impact and strategic environmental assessment: CBD Decision V/25, 4g
- Incorporate biodiversity considerations into impact assessments: CBD Decision III/18, 6: SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Include in EIA and SEA possible effects on migratory species: CMS Resolution 7.2, 2
- Make use of the CBD Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity into EIA and SEA: CMS Resolution 7.2, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Establish contact with national contact points of the International Association for Impact Assessment: CMS Resolution 7.2, 6 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Apply strategic environment impact assessments where wind turbines are planned: CMS Resolution 7.5, 1
- Evaluate the possible negative ecological impacts of wind turbines on nature: CMS Resolution 7.5, 1c
- Assess the cumulative environmental impacts of wind turbines on migratory species: CMS Resolution 7.5, 1d
- Develop and apply environmental and socio-economic impact assessment methods prior to land-use conversion: CBD Decision VIII/1, 1 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 5a
- Apply the voluntary guidelines on biodiversity-inclusive environmental impact assessment and share the experience through the Clearing-House Mechanisms and national reporting: CBD Decision VIII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VIII/28, Annex
- Take into account the guidance on biodiversity-inclusive strategic environmental assessment and share the experience through the Clearing-House Mechanism: CBD Decision VIII/28, 10 SEE COMMENTARY 5b
Component 2: Provide information on impact assessment
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Regarding impact assessment, provide feedback to Ramsar Bureau on the materials available on the IUCN Biodiversity Economics Web site: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 12
- Provide material on impact assessment to the Ramsar Bureau: Ramsar Resolution VIII.9, 13
- Submit to the Ramsar Bureau available guidelines on environmental appraisal and environmental impact assessment relevant to wetlands: Ramsar Recommendation 6.2, 6
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Contribute case-studies on experiences in environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment: CBD Decision VII/7: SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Include in national reports information on strategic environment assessment and cultural, environmental and social impact assessment: CBD Decision VII/16, F 14: SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Share experience on incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation: CBD Decision VI/7, A2 (part 2): SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Transmit to the Executive Secretary information and experiences on impact assessments, strategic environmental assessments, incorporation of biodiversity considerations into environmental impact assessment, reports and case studies relating to environmental impact assessment, reports relating to legislation and experience with environmental impact procedures, and reports relating to the implementation of mitigating and incentive schemes: CBD Decision IV/10, 1a-f: SEE COMMENTARY 8 UNCCD Decision 12/COP.6, 2 and UNEP/CBD/COP/7/INF/28: Programme element A of the joint work programme between CBD and UNCCD covers assessments.
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