What can businesses do?
Biodiversity, which is essential to all business activities, is highly endangered everywhere on earth. Offering citizens-consumers sustainable and biodiversity-friendly goods and services is becoming an issue of the utmost importance for businesses.
Practically, what can I do for my business?
BiodiversiTree is an online tool that helps you choose actions for biodiversity according to your situation, your resources, the place where you are located and your activity field.
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Integrating biodiversity? It works and it is profitable…
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Purchases
To offer a good or a service, all businesses need to buy raw materials, final products or other services.
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Facilities
The effects of business facilities on biodiversity depends on certain construction options and the building materials used.
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Processes
High pressures on biodiversity can be avoided by applying specific manufacturing methods.
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Grounds
It's important for businesses to lay out and manage their grounds in coherence with local biodiversity.
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Facts on industry and biodiversity
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2700
litres of water are needed for producing one cotton T-shirt, which is equivalent to what a person drinks in two and a half years.
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28
times more farmland is needed to produce 1 calorie of red meat than for 1 calorie of chicken meat.
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40%
of the pharmaceutical molecules contain at least 1 active ingredient of biological origin.
Thematic Articles
Regenerative development and design: improving governance, innovation and planetary health
Humans have pushed several planetary boundaries out of their safe operating space and inequalities within and between countries are rising… Our current societal and environmental challenges require a meta-response. This is what Regenerative Development and Design (RDD) aims to bring.
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Giving back to nature more than we take away
As part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Federal Public Service for Public Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment organized a High-Level event on the crucial role of nature and biodiversity in building a sustainable future. Entitled “Regenerative development for transformative change”, the event, which took place in Brussels on April 11, was built around a central message: “Giving back to nature more than we take away”.
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Enhancing collaboration at European Union borders
Officers from customs, animal and plant health authorities, and environmental authorities convened in Brussels on 14 March for an event focusing on improving border controls for Invasive Alien Species. Effective border controls are a key element in preventing their introduction into the European Union. This event was jointly organised by the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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UN and EU presidency share the same priorities at UNEA-6
From 26 February to 1 March, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest-level decision-making body for environment, met in Nairobi, Kenya. This sixth session (UNEA-6) envisaged how multilateral actions can help tackle the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
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The EU’s ambitions in Samarkand op de COP14 CMS
From 12 to 17 February, the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP14) was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. At this conference, the Belgian Presidency had an important role to play: to shape the discussions on behalf of the EU to promote the implementation of the CMS and give concrete form to the historic agreement in favour of biodiversity, reached in December 2022 during the 15th COP to the Convention on Biological diversity (CBD COP15).
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How can we act?
Biodiversity-friendly processes – that's possible!
Businesses rely directly or indirectly on natural resources and are thus unavoidable actors in the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. It is essential for them to act by taking the conservation of biodiversity into account in all their processes.