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How do we connect corporate interest in biodiversity with field-based conservation to unlock new and enhanced funding streams? We want to ensure biodiversity gains are delivered, and then sustained!

On this year’s Biodiversity Day, stakeholders are encouraged to be “part of the plan” in recognition of the collaborative effort required for this critical issue. For us, this means putting the topic at the heart of our engagement strategy and highlighting some specific challenges. Yijing Zhang explains how a biodiversity plan comes together: 🐝 https://lnkd.in/e2vYF5zN #sustainabilitynow #biodiversityday #partoftheplan

On Biodiversity Day - or International Day for Biological Diversity, to give it its full name - our #sustainabilitynow blog explores how firms are integrating biodiversity into decision-making. But there are 6 key challenges to overcome. #allianzglobalinvestors #sustainability

Our latest news article, "Biodiversity Topics Take Root: A Deep Dive," tracks the progress of the BioDiversity add-on — a framework guiding producers in on-farm biodiversity practices. 🐝 Following a successful launch in Europe, we're thrilled to announce that field trials are now underway to test the add-on's global applicability. 🌎 These trials will also play a crucial role in shaping the biodiversity component of our upcoming environmental sustainability solution. 🌱 Dive into the full article to find out more ➡ https://lnkd.in/eAHnrke7 #GLOBALGAP #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalSustainabilitySolution #News

Find out what's in the "A Fair Share of Biodiversity Finance" report! 'In 2022, signatories to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) committed to provide at least $20 billion a year to restore biodiversity in developing nations by 2025. Just one year out, we are far from achieving this goal. With 55% of global GDP depending on high-functioning biodiversity and a quarter of known species globally facing extinction, the stakes for both people and planet are astronomically high.' Laetitia Pettinotti Sarah Colenbrander Sneha Rai https://lnkd.in/d-xfPwUy

🌳🐠Today is International Day for Biological Diversity 🐒🦋The Biodiversity Plan, agreed back in December 2022 as a global plan, sets goals and concrete measures to stop and reverse the loss of nature by 2050. 🌄Take a look at The Importance Of International Biodiversity Day And How Companies Can Get Involved here: https://lnkd.in/e-ggzrU5 #climateawareness #sustainability

📌 Today is International Day for Biodiversity! 🌿🐾 ”Be #PartOfThePlan”, this year's theme for #BiodiversityDay, is a call to action for all stakeholders to halt & reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also referred to as the #BiodiversityPlan! More info via the link. This is an ambitious plan that requires a whole-of-society approach. Let’s all do our part to: 🌱protect & restore nature; 🌊prosper with nature; 🤝share benefits fairly; 💰invest and collaborate #ForNature. #BiodiversityDay #Sustainability #Conservation #Biodiversity

Dr Vadana Shiva - "Biodiversity if Life - its not an asset class" "They aim to commodify entire ecosystems and all ecological functions of nature, particularly in biodiversity-rich territories that are often the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples or small farmer communities. This article debunks five major false narratives around biodiversity credits that offer false solutions to false problems. And lays out the true ways of biodiversity conservation, through regenerating cultures of biodiversity. " - The first false narrative is that “Biodiversity credits will protect biodiversity”. Biodiversity credits are driven by the sole aim of generating profits, not creating meaningful action that disrupts the status quo responsible for the biodiversity loss in the world. It will not protect biodiversity. - The second false narrative is that “Biodiversity credits are not offsets”. Both credits and offsets are identical and the only difference is use. Green Finance Observatory points out that “there is no credible use for biodiversity credits outside of offsetting”. - The third false narrative at the foundation of financialisation of nature is that “Market mechanisms have superior outcomes over traditional regulation”. Markets have not protected biodiversity. Today, 80% of the world’s biodiversity resides in the 22% of land that is stewarded by Indigenous people. Their economies of care have outperformed economies of greed and markets, which have promoted deforestation, monocultures, and biodiversity loss. - The fourth false narrative is that “Biodiversity credits will generate additional incomes for local populations”. These schemes, instead of generating more livelihood will actually lead to more land grabbing, more human rights violations and increasingly volatile farmer incomes. - The fifth false narrative perpetrated by the private sector/financial markets is that “only financialisation will save biodiversity”. This is a colonial sleight of hand which erases the far more superior and effective realities, legacies and lineages of small farmers, women, indigenous peoples and multiple cultures protecting and stewarding biodiversity and the complex web of life encompassed in their local ecosystems. It is crucial to dismantle the assumption that the only way forward is through the very mechanisms that have historically plundered and commodified nature. “Market mechanisms have superior outcomes over traditional regulation”. Markets have not protected biodiversity. Today, 80% of the world’s biodiversity resides in the 22% of land that is stewarded by Indigenous people. Their economies of care have outperformed economies of greed and markets, which have promoted deforestation, monocultures, and biodiversity loss. Read report here:

Are you following discussions on Biodiversity Markets? If not - you should be! GFC has joined over 200 CSOs in calling for and END to the promotion, development and use of biodiversity offsetting and crediting schemes DON'T BE FOOLED!  BIODIVERSITY MARKETS ARE FALSE SOLUTIONS Stop the promotion, development and use of biodiversity offsetting and crediting schemes. Instead, prioritize transformational change in tackling the underlying causes of biodiversity loss

🌻🐝🌳 In the face of accelerating #biodiversity loss, organisations are now being encouraged to regularly monitor, assess, and disclose their risks, dependencies, and impacts on biodiversity. But biodiversity is a new topic for most businesses, and knowing how to measure and what to report can be challenging. 🌍Our newly updated factsheet explains what biodiversity is, why businesses need to address it now, and how EcoAct’s four-step approach can help organisations reduce their impact.  Our factsheet covers: ✔️Introduction to biodiversity ✔️Our 4-step approach to supporting organisations in reducing their impact on biodiversity ✔️The role EcoAct can play in your ecological transition 🔗Download now: https://hubs.li/Q02thhqV0