Strong signal from business: 'Biodiversity in Good Company' Initiative realigned
The Initiative has been transformed into a business-run and company-driven independent association. Thus, the former successful project established by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in 2008 ensures its long-term future prospects.
German Federal Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen welcomed the companies' commitment: "Nature is our foundation of life. Protecting nature is the joint task of government and society. The German business community has made a vital contribution to this by founding the international network 'Biodiversity in Good Company'. German companies support the federal government in implementing the National Biodiversity Strategy and internationally agreed targets."
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The Initiative presents itself
Watch this three-minutes clip to learn more about the importance of biodiversity and get an introduction to background and goals of the Initiative.
Corporate Biodiversity Management Handbook
The 'Corporate Biodiversity Management Handbook' is one of the first comprehensive guides available to enterprises that takes on the business and biodiversity topic from an economic perspective.
An Online Handbook Portal on our webpage presents the handbook contents as well as checklists and Best Practice Examples based upon Initaitive member company experiences.
By filling out the Online Checklists you can identify the possible impacts your business has on the environment, giving insight as to where you can begin implementing your biodiversity management.
The Good Companies
International companies are endorsing the Business and Biodiversity Initiative 'Biodiversity in Good Company'. Meanwhile, more than 40 companies have signed the Leadership Declaration that envisages the integration of biodiversity into entrepreneurial action and management systems.
14 Tips
You can read 14 Tips here to help you do your part for protecting nature and conserving biological diversity, including links for further information.
Touring Exhibition
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What does overfishing have to do with unemployment?
Is it possible for a grain of rice to avert a famine?
Can a sea slug help humans?
Our traveling exhibition offers answers to all these questions and more on 16 columns. The exhibition 'Without biological diversity, no economic diversity' will be touring throughout Japan and Germany until the end of the year.
News
The Global Reporting Inititive publishes a new 'Approach for reporting on ecosystem services'
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'From Commitment to Action'
The company fact book presents the member companies’ consistent engagement and documents their implementation of the Initiative's Leadership Declaration.
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The Initiative in the Press
The current edition of the forum CSR international magazine with an article of the initiative is now available.
