Businesses with agricultural supply chains depend on and impact biodiversity, both directly through their activities and indirectly through their supply chains, and there is growing momentum to better assess and manage these relationships with nature. However, the business community facies challenges in measuring their biodiversity...
Organisations promoting the recently presented Align project invite businesses and financial institutions from the EU (and beyond) to participate in their first Annual Survey to gather input to develop guidance and recommendations on a standard for biodiversity measurement and natural capital management accounting. Align is...
The signatories of the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge, together with the Finance@Biodiversity Community of the European Commission (B @ B), have created a Guide on biodiversity measurement for financial institutions. The Guide provides a starting point for financial institutions that are interested in measuring biodiversity....
These guidelines offer an approach for developing a corporate-level biodiversity strategic plan, including measurable goals and objectives and a set of core linked indicators, that will allow companies to measure their biodiversity performance across their operations. The guidelines can be used by any company...
The Biological Diversity Protocol (BD Protocol) is an output of the Biodiversity Disclosure Project (BDP), a project started in early 2018, managed by the National Biodiversity and Business Network (NBBN) of South Africa and hosted by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT). Through close collaboration...
The Biological Diversity Protocol (BD Protocol) is the first tool that provides a standardised approach to help any organisation account for and consolidate all its net impacts on ecosystems and species. It allows all companies, big or small, and no matter what industry, to establish...
Instituto LIFE has launched the 2nd Public Consultation of the International Standard on Sustainable Territorial Management, whose objective is to facilitate decision-making on the management of the territory -both at urban and rural level- that affects the state of natural capital, in order to...
The EU B@B Platform has launched the third report of the Assessment of Biodiversity Measurement Approaches for Businesses and Financial Institutions series. This 2021 report builds on the foundations established by the first two volumes (2018, 2019) and takes the next crucial step in the...
Achieving a climate-resilient future requires rapid, sustained and far-reaching transformations in energy, land-use, infrastructure and industrial systems. Large-scale expansion of renewable energy can play a critical role in meeting the world’s growing energy demands and in the fight against climate change. However, even ‘clean’ energy...
The Synthesis report provides a high-level overview of the main themes addressed in the Guidelines on mitigating biodiversity impacts associated with solar and wind energy development, published in 2021. The Guidelines aim to provide practical support for solar and wind energy devel-opments to effectively manage...
