跨部门生物多样性倡议(CSBI)指南提供了实践指导, 创新方法和实例，以支持有效实施缓解层次结构. 它清楚地定义了缓解层次结构的四个步骤——避免, 最小化, restore and offset—and their application with regard to managing biodiversity throughout the life cycle of an extractive project; provides clear, 为确定和显示缓解工作导致的生物多样性损益提供系统指导, highlighting links to ecosystem services where available and appropriate; offers practical measures for predicting and verifying biodiversity conservation outcomes over time; and offers insight into documenting and comparing costs and savings resulting from mitigation action or inaction.
它的目标人群是从事环保工作的专业人士, 或与, 负责监督缓解等级制度在生物多样性保护中的应用的采掘业和金融机构, 同时平衡保育需要与发展优先事项.
