Welcome
The Global Platform on Business and Biodiversity aims to promote markets that support nature conservation and sustainable use.
Business depends on products and services provided by the natural environment but currently business operations contributes to exponential loss of biodiversity. This needs to change as biodiversity is a business opportunity.
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Consumers are becoming more aware of biodiversity issues and are increasingly looking for sustainable products. Business, therefore, faces political scrutiny for its impact on biodiversity. It also faces increased regulation. Managing biodiversity is a way to manage risk. Research shows that the long-term consequences of biodiversity loss can lead to higher costs for inputs to business processes, or unpredictable changes for business. Ignoring biodiversity could therefore result in loss of profit and market share, and ultimately cause severe disruption to existing business models. For more on the business case for biodiversity.
This new website is geared towards helping businesses become aware of the importance of biodiversity for their daily activities, and for the long-term future of their organizations.
On this website you can find an overview of existing tools and mechanisms. These are designed to assist companies in integrating biodiversity and sustainability considerations into corporate strategies and decision making.
Included are a compilation of case studies from companies that have shown, through their actions, that they endorse the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity. These case studies provide examples of best practices and corporate strategies that represent positive steps towards the achievement of sustainability.
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The website will be continually up-dated, with additional features added. Phase II of the Global Platform on Business and Biodiversity will be fully functional by 15 December 2011 in preparation for the first meeting of the Platform in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting will facilitate dialogue among businesses, governments, and other stakeholders, through the use of interactive and “social” applications, who are developing tools and are involved in making the business sector more sustainable.
We invite you to browse this website and contact us on how we can work together at:
business@cbd.int.
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Information and Resources
Messages
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Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf
Executive Secretary, SCBD |
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In Nagoya a strategic partnership between the 193 Parties and the Business community was established. This dedicated and comprehensive website for our business partners has been conceived as a powerful modern tool to enhance such strategic partnership at the service of the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. It contains the tools required to incorporate biodiversity conservation into their corporate strategies and communicate relevant activities to consumers, customers and other stakeholders thus investing in the green business of tomorrow."
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Mr. Jean-Guy Carrier
Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) |
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Safeguarding biodiversity is in the interest of business - its integration into business operations represents both challenges and opportunities . One challenge is how to measure and account for environmental externalities , for which businesses need sound economic methodologies. The Nagoya Protocol will provide increased opportunities for the creation and sharing of benefits from the world’s genetic resources, and their conservation and sustainable use, if workable access and benefit sharing systems are developed within its framework."
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Mr. Pavan Sukhdev
Study leader, TEEB |
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The importance of business to biodiversity cannot be overstated. The private sector accounts for most of the world's production of goods. What they make and how carefully and efficiently they use earth's resources will determine the future of biodiversity conservation. Conversely, biodiversity is also vital to business - not just to natural resource-based businesses, but to all who benefit from and plan for a safe and resilient operating environment in which to do business."
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Mr. Naotake Okubo
Chairman, Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation |
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No business can survive without properly addressing environmental concerns. Positive engagement to biodiversity challenge by business sector is one of the indispensable elements to achieve "Aichi Target" agreed at the COP10. We commit to act proactively and concretely for the three goals of biodiversity convention in collaboration and cooperation with various stakeholders and also utilizing "Japan Business and Biodiversity Partnership."
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Mr. Tom Albanese
CEO, Rio Tinto |
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Rio Tinto has long recognised the critical importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to human well being. We also recognise the risks that biodiversity loss and ecosystem service degradation present to our business. In response, we have developed our biodiversity strategy and Net Positive Impact (NPI) commitment as Rio Tinto's way of balancing global demand for mineral resources with the need for greater biodiversity conservation. While these can be conflicting in nature, we believe that our NPI model provides one way of balancing these conflicts. We are making progress on our commitments, but understand we still have a long journey ahead and one which must be made through engagement with others, including the CBD."
