Not-for-profit sector

Earthmind has partnered with several academic and environmental not-for-profits, notably with IUCN:

Le Comité français de l’UICN - review of the first pilot project in Senegal of the Danone Wetland Carbon Partnership

Duke University - sponsoring organisation for their Geneva internship programme

Graduate Institute, Geneva - guest lectures on the Green Development Initiative and global biodiversity policy

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Programmes:

Business & Biodiversity Programme – development of a small and medium enterprise (SME) engagement strategy, development of the ‘business and markets journey’ and subsequent report for the 4th World Conservation Congress

Economics Programme – coordination of the Wetland Carbon Programme with Danone and Ramsar, co-author of the TEEB for Business Report and the IUCN/Shell report on Building Biodiversity Business, general technical support to various Programme activities

Global Marine and Polar Programme – coordination of the Yemen LNG Independent Review Panel, technical support to Eon on the biodiversity impacts of offshore wind, organisation and facilitation of technical workshops on valuation of marine biodiversity with GEF IW:LEARN and PERSGA in Cape Town and Jeddah, general technical support to various Programme activities

Water Programme – organisation and facilitation of a technical workshop on valuation of rivers biodiversity with GEF IW:LEARN in Ouagadougou

Regional Office for Europe – technical support to the EC Business @ Biodiversity Platform including preparation of the bid, development of the EU Conference on Business and Biodiversity under the Portuguese Presidency and drafting of the subsequent report, scoping of a European campaign against overfishing

Regional Office for West Africa - review of the use of economic valuation for biodiversity and livelihoods in West Africa

Commissions:

Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) - member of working groups on private sector

Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) - member of the working group on private sector accountability

Species Survival Commission (SSC) - member of specialist group on sustainable use

World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) - guidance on revising the working group on finance and member of the working groups on tourism and valuation

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) - facilitation of a technical workshop and input into a report on trade and sustainable land management with the Global Mechanism

Kent State University - sponsoring organisation for their Geneva internship programme

Oxford University Wildlife Research Unit (WildCru) - guest lectures on business and biodiversity

Robert Kennedy College - lecturing and thesis supervision in online MBA and DBA programmes

Syracuse University - guest lecture on global biodiversity policy and resource mobilisation

University of Klagenfurt – guest lectures on protected areas finance

World Land Trust – technical advice on a bio-carbon business plan for a private forest in Belize