News in the Framework of the European Business & Biodiversity Campaign

LIFE BooGI-BOP: Layman's Report published

In the EU-LIFE project "Biodiversity-oriented Design of Business Premises" the final Layman's Report was published. It is available in English, German and Spanish and contains impressive figures on the creation of biodiversity-friendly areas, consulting of companies and sensitization of multipliers.

New IDFC Toolbox: Integrating Biodiversity into Strategies and Operations of Development Finance Institutions

An innovative toolbox introduces the conceptual foundations for understanding the role of biodiversity for financial players.

COP 15: What was important

At the World Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in December, progress was made for the protection of biodiversity – we summarize the most important results for you.

Out now: WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter (BRF)

The WWF just launched a free online tool that enables companies and financial institutions to analyze their biodiversity risks. It provides a spatially explicit risk assessment for production sites across 5 categories of physical risks and 3 categories of reputation risks.

New publication: "Biodiversity and finance: Managing the double materiality"

The publication presents a set of recommendations for financial institutions to "go beyond regulation" and change ways of thinking and acting about biodiversity - based on scientific evidence and taking into account the vision of a complete restoration of nature by 2050.

Results of the CITES Conference

Representatives of 184 countries agreed in November 2022 under the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) that hundreds of wild species may only be traded sustainably in the future.

New publication: "Recommendations for a standard on corporate biodiversity measurement and valuation"

The Align project publishes recommendations that provide greater clarity on which elements of biodiversity to measure and how to value biodiversity impacts and dependencies in a corporate context.

Revision of the GRI Reporting Standard on Biodiversity: still open until February 28!

The GRI standard is one of the most widely used reporting standards and helps companies, among other things, to disclose their key biodiversity impacts and management in a transparent and traceable way.

WWF presents its Biodiversity Data Puzzle

WWF's Biodiversity Data Puzzle explores how improved ecosystem and biodiversity insights can be obtained and consistently produced for all commercial assets on Earth using spatial ex situ data.

Review: Food for Biodiversity at the Agricultural University Day in Hohenheim

On 20 October 2022, the Agricultural University Day was held at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, this year titled: "Biodiversity and Agriculture: (not) a contradiction?" The event took place on site and was well attended with about 100 participants.