01/20/2023COP 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.
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01/20/2023Out 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.
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01/16/2023New 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.
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01/16/2023Results 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.
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01/16/2023New 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.
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01/16/2023Revision 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.
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01/16/2023WWF 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.
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01/16/2023Review: 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.
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01/16/2023Biodiversity Market Research: UEBT Biodiversity Barometer 2022
Since 2009, 13 years of quantitative research by the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) has revealed the astonishing growth of biodiversity awareness.
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01/16/2023Online survey: Biodiversity and food production
In order to determine consumers´ attitudes towards biodiversity and their behavioral intentions when buying food, the Center for Technology and Society (ZTG) at the Technical University of Berlin conducted an online survey with 1,028 people in June 2022.
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