Securing the Standard: Next Steps for Conservation Certification
Many projects recognized by WHC Conservation Certification use adaptive management to strengthen their outcomes.
Entries by Margaret O’Gorman
SDGs and Biodiversity – The Private Sector Impact
Industry can do many things to address its impact on nature and embrace the restorative imperatives contained within circular economy models.
Taking Nature Out of the Corner and Into the Spotlight: Biodiversity and the Circular Economy
Industry can do many things to address its impact on nature and embrace the restorative imperatives contained within circular economy models.
Unusual Places with Unexpected Partners: Welcoming All-Comers to Restore, Improve and Protect Nature
Business plays a key role with respect to biodiversity and the conservation of nature.
Setting a New Standard: Every Act of Conservation Matters
This is the ninth in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification.
Setting the New Standard: Driving Change through Conservation Certification
This is the eighth in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification.
Setting the New Standard: Aligning Conservation Goals with Existing Priorities
This is the seventh in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification.
Setting the New Standard: Enhancing Credibility with Stakeholder Involvement
This is the sixth in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification. Credibility is not an absolute. It cannot be viewed or exist independently. It has to be relative to something or someone–a set of standards, an audience, an individual or an entity. Credibility is hard to […]
Setting the New Standard: Supported Approaches Empower Success
This is the fifth in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification. It is a widely-held belief that a clinical distance must be maintained between the certifier and the certified, that one body should be the keeper of the standard and the other should be the […]
Setting the New Standard: Transparency Matters
This is the fourth in a series of monthly blog posts exploring the development of a new standard in corporate conservation certification. In “Learning Through Disclosure,” an essay in Transparency in Global Environmental Governance, Graeme Auld and Lars Gulbrandsen show how two types of transparency—procedural transparency and outcome transparency—can impact the legitimacy of a recognition program. […]