Online conference to seek early input into the scoping process of the business and biodiversity assessment

Participants are invited to provide, between 16.00 and noon the next day, short and punchy written contributions to complement the oral exchange. Please focus your contributions on the following questions:

  • What could be the main contributions of a future IPBES assessment on business and biodiversity?
  • How could such an assessment best support the efforts of business regarding biodiversity?
  • The short text below, extracted from the “pre-scoping report” for the future assessment on business and biodiversity, provides some overall guidance on what the assessment could address, concerning themes 1 and 2 of the online conference:
    • Do you see any major gaps in the points (a) to (f) listed below?
    • What do you see as the key priorities among the points below, and main challenges?  

 

[Extracted from document IPBES/7/6, annex, appendix II]

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Theme 1: Types of impacts and dependences of various types of businesses on biodiversity

The assessment will focus on identifying:

  1. Categories of business dependence on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, the materiality of that dependence and implications for risk management;
  2. Categories of business impact on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, both direct (land-use change and other habitat changes, including through fragmentation, water degradation and extraction, overexploitation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and increased risk of invasive alien species) and indirect (e.g., through trade, indirect land-use change or other substitution effects and other aspects of telecoupling, including those mediated through supply chains), the materiality of the impact and implications for risk management.
 11 23 [email protected] 3 years ago

Theme 2: Available indicators and metrics to measure and monitor impact and dependence

The assessment will focus on identifying:

  1. Criteria and indicators for measuring business dependence on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people;
  2. Criteria and indicators for measuring the impact of business activities on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people;
  3. Ways to integrate criteria and indicators for measuring business dependence and impact into other aspects of sustainability;
  4. Approaches to monitoring and reporting by individual entities and reporting initiatives.
 10 13 Antoine Cadi 3 years ago