Our partner organisation in India, the India Business & Biodiversity Initiative (IBBI), together with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is launching the "CII-IBBI Certified Training (CICT) on Managing Natural Capital".
Biodiversity is a main issue for the Group and therefore it is one of the environmental objectives in the Commitments for Sustainable Development of Veolia.
How do biodiversity and ecosystem services interact and what can be achieved by the ecosystem services approach? In May, a new report on this matter was published by the European Commission.
In February 2013, 'Biodiversity in Good Company’ was awarded by the German UN Decade on Biological Diversity platform as an outstanding initiative. Now the expert jury has decided to renew this award, paying tribute to the ongoing sustainable commitment of the network and its members.
Primeval forests are rare and endangered, even in Germany. ForestFinance is involved in their conservation in an unusual way: together with the municipality of Hümmel, the company has managed a one-of-a-kind forest cemetery, established in November 2013.
ForestFinance has developed a sustainable concept tackling the afforestation of arid regions together with the newly founded DesertTimber Consulting. The approach has been tested in a successful pilot project in Egypt and will be extended to other areas.
Corporate responsibility and biodiversity specialists from around the world convene in Helsinki, Finland, to exchange knowledge on companies´ latest practices on business and biodiversity. This two-day event gathers around 250 participants globally.
Volkswagen's efforts concerning the protection of endangered animals and plants are backed up by the first Species Protection Report of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.
Once again on this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, Armin Günter, who is responsible for biodiversity at HiPP, will guide students through the Ehrensberger Hof farm and provide them with practical insights into the possibilities and the significance of biodiversity protection.
Volkswagen hands out garden plants for biological diversity in employees' backyards on occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22nd May 2015.
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