Biodiversity Impact Assessment
The objectives of the Assessment are to analyze and evaluate the impact of development strategies of key industries (such as transportation infrastructure construction, forestry-pulp-paper integration, biomass fuels development, etc.) in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone on the biodiversity of key areas (such as the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone); to put forward recommendations and measures to better integrate regional industrial development with biodiversity conservation based on development strategies and planning, and further to establish assessment indicators, methodologies and procedures for strategic biodiversity impact assessment.
The Assessment shall undertake a comprehensive evaluation of biodiversity and conservation status and threats in key areas, develop scenarios based on valuation of ecosystem service delivery for key ecosystems, assess the impact of key industries development on biodiversity and provide recommendations to better integrate biodiversity conservation and industrial development.
