\nCompanies with a direct impact on biodiversity such as quarries, oil and gas operators and linear infrastructures etc have become used to integrating the issue of biodiversity into their everyday management processes. Other businesses with a more indirect impact are at a different stage in terms of awareness and experience. It is not unusual for businesses with an indirect impact to deal with biodiversity through sponsorship or forming partnerships with environmental associations in the first instance. Today, however, companies want to include biodiversity in their strategic objectives and are therefore exploring how best to approach the link between their business and biodiversity. \u201cMeasuring and managing biodiversity\u201d has been published by the biodiversity commission and contains examples of members\u2019 practices.<\/p>\n
What are indicators used for?<\/strong> Developing and selecting indicators for the business project.<\/strong> What makes a good biodiversity indicator?<\/strong> About forty concretes examples show key steps in developing and selecting indicators for the business project:<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nBusiness ethics, management of the business, communication, risk prevention… there are a number of reasons that prompt companies to measure their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and how effective their actions are. Defining and implementing biodiversity indicators makes biodiversity relevant to strategic business goals, thereby attracting the attention of high-level directors. In addition, a voluntary commitment to positive biodiversity actions and transparent sharing of the biodiversity indicators helps create a dialogue with the different stakeholders \u2013 both internal and external.<\/p>\n
\nA business is part of an ecosystem (environment, partners and stakeholders) and studying this ecosystem and the issues and challenges surrounding it makes it possible to define the indicators. As there are a number of goals and spatial and temporal scales, companies must find a middle ground between what they ought to do and what is realistically possible, based on the information and resources available. In order to create an approach that is both understood and accepted, the process of selecting and developing the indicators should be accompanied by a dialogue with stakeholders.<\/p>\n
\nThere are no standards for biodiversity indicators, but a look at the practices of EpE members allowed us to identify some general trends. Whether we\u2019re talking about impact measurement, stock status or to give an overall view, companies often work in close collaboration with researchers to create a scientific basis for their biodiversity indicators with experts. The indicators, which must be verifiable, traceable and reproducible, in both time and space, are often monitored by scientists or associations over a long period of time. In addition, businesses generally seek fairly similar indicators to allow comparisons at group level. This doesn\u2019t prevent local indicators from being used, however.<\/p>\n\n
\nBASF Agro, BiodiversID, a double network of farms for monitoring indicators<\/li>\n
\nThe Concept of a Positive EconomyTM<\/li>\n
\nBiodiversity Management System (SMBio)<\/li>\n
\nThe ESR tool for identifying the impact and dependencies of group activities in relation to biodiversity<\/li>\n
\nMonitoring and assessment indicators for compensatory measures<\/li>\n
\nExternal communication and level of company engagement<\/li>\n
\nMeasuring the ecological value of land to enable sustainable management of natural spaces
\nHydroecological monitoring around nuclear power stations: reporting on the long-term evolution of aquatic ecosystems
\nFRB\/CESAB Partnership LOLA-BMS Butterflies, a model group for managing biodiversity<\/li>\n
\nMapping biodiversity risks at a portfolio of sites<\/li>\n
\nA commitment with the SNB stamp of approval<\/li>\n
\nIndicators for tracking the company\u2019s commitment to biodiversity<\/li>\n
\nThe contribution of easement strips to ecological continuity<\/li>\n
\nA number of tools and methods for assessing, measuring and managing biodiversity
\nA dedicated indicator to assess the biodiversity of quarries<\/li>\n
\nDragonfly zone: An area for biological freedom and combating emerging pollutants<\/li>\n
\nIncluding Biodiversity in environmental risk insurance<\/li>\n
\nWhich Assessment methods and indicators for industrial sites?<\/li>\n
\nPartnerships with organisations that manage natural areas
\nIndicators for monitoring the impact of activities on ordinary biodiversity
\nPartnerships with scientists to monitor biodiversity<\/li>\n
\nTesting a mapping method for use around the world<\/li>\n
\nA tool for measuring landscape integration
\nTrees and plants bear the brunt of climate change<\/li>\n
\nAn operational approach for preserving biodiversity<\/li>\n
\nIndicators for managing biodiversity across the organisation<\/li>\n
\nAn indicator for the tonnage of renewable raw materials<\/li>\n
\nActively driving the number of action plans on its sites<\/li>\n
\nMapping biodiversity risks at a portfolio of sites<\/li>\n
\nGroup-level consolidated indicators for monitoring and reporting on the biodiversity policy<\/li>\n
\nSystematic research partnership with stakeholders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dev.epe-asso.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/WP-file-download\/app\/admin\/assets\/images\/t.gif\")
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