These guidelines support a harmonized international approach to
assessing the impacts of livestock on biodiversity. The livestock
sector is a major user of natural resources (land in particular)
and contributor to pollution (causing nutrient losses and
increasing greenhouse gas emissions), which makes it a sector with
a high impact on biodiversity. However, livestock production is one
of the few sectors with not only negative but also positive impacts
on biodiversity. The sector can therefore pull two levers to
improve its biodiversity performance - mitigate harm and maximise
benefits. Yet many environmental assessments of the livestock
sector have not addressed biodiversity because of its intrinsic
complexity. These guidelines, developed by the Technical Advisory
Group on biodiversity - a team of 25 international experts in
ecology, biodiversity indicators, agronomy, and environmental
science - strive to include biodiversity in such assessments, to
improve understanding of livestock's impact on biodiversity and to
reveal possible synergies or trade-offs with other environmental
criteria and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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