News in the Framework of the European Business & Biodiversity Campaign

Eco beauty company ‘appoints nature’ to its board of directors

Faith In Nature to give non-executive director or ‘nature guardian’ voice in business strategy

Whitepapers on using spatial intelligence for business action on nature and climate

Both the World Economic Forum and The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have released new whitepapers on how using location-specific information can help improve business strategies to achieve global nature and climate goals.

BNP Paribas AM unveils biodiversity Paris-aligned climate ETF

The BNP Paribas Easy ESG Eurozone Biodiversity Leaders PAB UCITS ETF is listed on Euronext Paris and Deutsche Boerse with an ongoing charges figure (OCF) of 0.35%.

Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?

Carefully planned mitigation techniques like restoring degraded ecosystems and rewilding, as well as renewable power expansions, could help limit climate change and prevent biodiversity loss.

Review: Conference "European Green Premises 2022"

The conference of the LIFE-BooGI-BOP project in Wiesbaden on September 14-15 showed that there are viable solutions for biodiversity-oriented, climate change-adapted commercial sites - and that in the various countries and climate zones of Europe.

Guide on biodiversity measurement by the Finance and Biodiversity Community and Foundation published (2nd edition)

The Finance and Biodiversity Community (F@B Community), part of the EU Business@Biodiversity Platform, and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation have published a Guide that aims to help financial institutions to find a measurement approach that fits their needs.

Where the world’s largest companies stand on nature – analysis by McKinsey

In short: While Global 500 companies increasingly recognize the importance of nature, few companies have established nature-related commitments outside of carbon.

Business for Nature call for signing COP15 business statement on mandatory assessment and disclosure

The network urges all companies to join others from across the globe who are calling on Heads of State to ‘Make It Mandatory’ and require all large businesses and financial institutions to assess and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature by 2030.

Science-Based Targets for Nature (SBTN): Public consultation on biodiversity assessment and prioritization

To complement science-based targets for climate, which help companies mitigate their GHG emissions, and to help companies adopt a roadmap for integrated environmental action, SBTN is developing science-based targets for nature including freshwater, land, ocean and biodiversity.

IPBES: Call for nominations of experts

IPBES is seeking experts and practitioners with expertise in impacts and dependencies of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people from all relevant business and financial sectors (formal and informal).