Business and Biodiversity: Show all News
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GIZ |
Producing and marketing - done in a biodiversity-friendly way!
Some of the first and successful entrepreneurial pioneers in biodiversity-friendly production and marketing are already active – in the production of spices in India, for example, and in the cultivation, harvesting and processing of agaves in Mexico.
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HeidelbergCement |
BirdLife partnership: HeidelbergCement sponsors Spring Alive Campaign 2019
Since 2011, HeidelbergCement has been in Partnership with BirdLife International, one of the largest nature conservation organisations worldwide. Both partners strive to promote and raise awareness about the essential role that quarries can play to support biodiversity via the temporary or permanent nature of the different habitats they comprise. Through the Partnership, HeidelbergCement has offered to sponsor the 2019 campaign of the Spring Alive programme.
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UPM |
UPM begins the transplantation of threatened species in a unique biodiversity project
This spring, UPM will begin a transplantation project of rare and threatened wood-inhabiting fungi in co-operation with Natural Resources Institute Finland and the University of Helsinki.
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GIZ |
Where does GIZ stand with their corporate environmental management? GIZ Climate and Environmental Report 2017
After its revision last year, GIZ’s Environment Programme 2016–2020 now focuses on climate neutrality and sustainable procurement.
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Saraya |
SARAYA receives Biodiversity Report Special Excellence Award at the 22nd Environmental Communications Awards
The award promotes environmental responsibility in private corporations and the diffusion of its results.
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SuMi Trust |
SuMi Trust supports Principles for Responsible Banking
SuMi Trust supports the Principles for Responsible Banking as advocated in the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
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News from Member Companies |
Yusuke Saraya met Egypts Minister of Trade and Industry on occasion of the CBD-COP 14
On occasion of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD-COP 14) held in December 2018 in Egypt, Yusuke Saraya, president of Saraya, met Amr Nassar, Minister of Trade and Industry, to discuss Sarayas current investment in Egypt.
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Awards |
Symrise receives German Sustainability Award
Our member Smyrise received the national German Sustainability Award in the category large companies. Amongst others the jury acknowledged Symrise´s biodiversity agenda and its activities along the supply chain.
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UPM |
UPM strengthens the foundation of the bio-economy with a new biodiversity commitment
UPM has published a new biodiversity commitment, which is one of the company's responsibility targets for 2030. The new commitment and programme was presented at the Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Awards |
Symrise nominated for the national German sustainability award
Our member Symrise has been nominated for the national German sustainability award 2018. Amongst others, Symrise develops and integrates biodiversity-friendly and sustainable cultivation of its raw materials with partners in the countries of origin.