validated by stakeholders. 1.2 Social and 1.2.1 Required All Some but not all There is no 1 Guidance (please delete): Note that regulations that only require environmental regulatory environmental or social impact assessment and mitigation plans by government impact affecting land affecting land requirement for get C rating. regulations assessments use are required use are required and plans to by government by government screening and mitigate risks regulations to regulations to for those with undergo undergo significant screening to screening to impacts to identify those identify those implement a that require with significant social and social and impacts that environmental environmental require social impact impact and assessment and assessments and environmental a plan to plans to mitigate impact mitigate significant assessments and significant negative impacts. plans to mitigate negative significant impacts. negative impacts. 1.2.2 Address Government Government No regulatory 1 Guidance (please delete): Note that people’ are either ‘vulnerable regulations regulations requirement to identified through stakeholder analysis and/or regulations. Where impacts on require that require that identify and there is no existing definition of vulnerable people, this indicator indigenous impacts on impacts on address impacts should focus on indigenous peoples and local communities. peoples, indigenous indigenous on indigenous communities peoples, local peoples and local peoples and/or and vulnerable communities and communities local people vulnerable people are communities, people identified with including (identified no definition or smallholders. through special attention stakeholder for vulnerable analysis and/or people and/or no regulations), specific must be requirement for identified and measures to specific address these measures impacts. developed and implemented to
validated by stakeholders. 1.2 Social and environmental impact assessments and plans to mitigate risks 1.2.1 Required by government regulations All affecting land use are required by government regulations to undergo screening to identify those that require social and environmental impact assessments and plans to mitigate significant negative impacts. Some but not all affecting land use are required by government regulations to undergo screening to identify those with significant impacts that require social and environmental impact assessments and plans to mitigate significant negative impacts. There is no regulatory requirement for screening and for those with significant impacts to implement a social and environmental impact assessment and a plan to mitigate significant negative impacts. 1 Guidance (please delete): Note that regulations that only require environmental or social impact assessment and mitigation plans get C rating. 1.2.2 Address impacts on indigenous peoples, communities and vulnerable people Government regulations require that impacts on indigenous peoples, local communities and vulnerable people (identified through stakeholder analysis and/or regulations), must be identified and specific measures developed and implemented to Government regulations require that impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities people are identified with no definition or special attention for vulnerable people and/or no specific requirement for measures to address these impacts. No regulatory requirement to identify and address impacts on indigenous peoples and/or local communities, including smallholders. 1 Guidance (please delete): Note that ‘vulnerable people’ are either identified through stakeholder analysis and/or regulations. Where there is no existing definition of vulnerable people, this indicator should focus on indigenous peoples and local communities.
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