The Secretariat of the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo Convention) has worked with the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS), and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands to develop methodologies for incorporating biodiversity issues into EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA). This led to Guidelines for Incorporating Biodiversity-Related Issues into Environmental Impact Assessment Legislation and/or Processes and in Strategic Environmental Assessment, which were adopted by the Sixth COP of the CBD.
The Guidelines are available at http://www.unece.org/env/eia/documents/
links_between_conventions/
decisionvi7of6thcopofcbd.pdf
For more information, see http://www.unece.org/env/eia/eiaresources.html