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The key highlights of this month's issue include: Using blue economy to improve ocean health for sustainable development; Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs; Recommendations for strengthening the Post-2020 GBF; Empower customs officials to combat illegal wildlife trade; averting biodiversity crisis; Industry involvement in sound management of chemicals and waste; Boost e-waste collection and recycling in East Africa; Phasing out lead from paint manufacturing; celebrating Cartagena convention; CARICOM launches second biodiversity webinar series; Preparing Easter Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean for the 2021/2022 BRS COPs; Free Self-Pace Trainings course on marine litter pollution prevention.

Scoping is the stage whereby the regulator (with the developer and stakeholder engagement) identifies and highlights the major impacts of the proposed development.

Mitigation hierarchy is to avoid risks and impacts. Where avoidance is not possible, minimize or risks and impacts to acceptable levels.

The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) makes important advances for the World Bank in areas such as transparency, accountability, non discrimination and public participation.

To avoid or minimize impacts by exploring alternatives. To mitigate adverse impacts through timely compensation and assistance to restore livelihoods and living standards.

A plan that translates proposed mitigation measures into practice. Typically developed as a part of environmental assessment.

Key role in respect of environmental safeguards is to ensure that environmental safeguards for the project are implemented effectively during construction.

The term gender-based violence highlights gender dimension of the violence and the root cause of the violence. However the Pacific, gender-based violence is often used against women and girls to adopt a gender-neutral approach to the issue.

The Environmental and Social Safeguards working groups (ESSWG) was formed to provide a platform for PRIF partner safeguard experts to share knowledge and best practice, and work collaboratively to build capacity for improved of safeguard implementation.

Cumulative impacts are those that result from the successive incremental, and/pr combined effects of an action, project or activity when added to other existing, planned and/or reasonably anticipated future ones impacts that would not be expected in the case of a stand-alone development.