Biodiversity and Ethical Business

2010 - Canadian Business and Biodiversity Case Studies Compendium, Volume 1

Julian Rode — 2010-07-25T14:35:06Z

Title

2010 - Canadian Business and Biodiversity Case Studies Compendium, Volume 1

Authors

Institutions

Canadian Business and Biodiversity Program

Date

2010

Abstract

2010 - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - Report for Business

Julian Rode — 2010-07-25T12:28:50Z

Title

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - Report for Business

Authors

Joshua Bishop (IUCN, coordinator) et al

Institutions

TEEB is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme and supported by the European Commission; the German Federal Environment Ministry; the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; UK Department for International Development, Norway's Ministry for Foreign Affairs; The Netherlands' Interministerial Program Biodiversity; and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Date

July 2010

Abstract

Business and enterprise have a huge role to play in how we manage, safeguard and invest in our natural capital. This report is aimed squarely at this sector and will provide practical guidance on the issues and the opportunities created by the inclusion in mainstream business practices of ecosystem- and biodiversity-related considerations. This report is for a wide array of enterprises, including those with direct impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, such as mining, oil and gas and infrastructure; for those businesses that depend on healthy ecosystems and biodiversity for production, such as agriculture and fisheries; for industry sectors that finance and undergird economic activity and growth, like banks and asset managers, as well as insurance and business services; and for businesses that are selling ecosystem services or biodiversity-related products such as eco-tourism, eco-agriculture and bio-carbon.

2009 - Corporate Ecosystem Valuation: Building the Business Case

Julian Rode — 2010-04-09T10:12:36Z

This report synthesizes within "10 good reasons" the opportunities emerging for businesses to use corporate ecosystem valuation to improve their planning, reporting and decision-making.

Title

[Corporate Ecosystem Valuation: Building the Business Case]

Authors

Institutions

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Date

October 2009

Abstract

The report presents ten reasons why companies should employ corporate ecosystem valuation as a decision-support tool to improve operational efficiency and/or develop new business opportunities while reducing their environmental impacts or ecological “footprint” or building up their ecosystem assets.

2008 - Corporate Ecosystem Services Review

Julian Rode — 2010-01-21T14:20:47Z

The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR), developed by the World Resources Institute, Meridian and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is a structured methodology for corporate managers to proactively develop strategies for managing business risks and opportunities arising from their company's dependence and impact on ecosystems. Within a 5-step procedure, the ESR analyzes how business performance can be enhanced via a thorough evaluation of such dependences and impacts.

Title

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review

Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change

Authors

Craig Hanson (WRI), Janet Ranganathan (WRI), Charles Iceland (WRI), John Finisdore (WRI)

Institutions

World Resources Institute (WRI), Meridian, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Date

March 2008

Abstract

Although ecosystem degradation can pose a number of risks to corporate performance as well as create new business opportunities, companies often fail to make the connection between the health of ecosystems and the business bottom line. The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) is a structured methodology that helps managers proactively develop strategies to manage business risks and opportunities arising from their company's dependence and impact on ecosystems.

2002 - Business & Biodiversity: The Handbook for Corporate Action

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T18:32:55Z

For the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, IUCN and WBCSD joined forces with Earthwatch Institute (Europe) to develop a new Handbook for Corporate Action that provides information on the business case for biodiversity, an overview of hot issues, and guidance on biodiversity management strategies.

Title

Business & Biodiversity: The Handbook for Corporate Action

Authors

Institutions

Earthwatch Institute (Europe), International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Date

2002

Abstract

Biodiversity is everywhere and it is everyone's responsibility. Biodiversity is more than just the reasoned use of nature and natural resources by the resource extraction companies. Financial institutions, consumer goods companies, service organisations and the information technology sector can all contribute to the fundamental objectives of the CBD. It is the hope of our three organisations that a wider cross-section of the private sector will accept the challenge, integrate biodiversity concerns into their management systems, and take action to conserve biodiversity that is at the core of our planet's ability to sustain future generations. This Handbook highlights how a number of companies have already begun to do so. In particular, this report: • Outlines the business case for biodiversity, • Identifies corporate biodiversity issues, and • Provides guidance for developing biodiversity corporate action.

2000 - Biodiversity and Business in Latin America

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T14:45:32Z

This study by the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) provides an overview of South-American examples of biodiversity businesses, outlines the business and conservation rationale for investing in such businesses, and elicits the investment opportunities in biodiversity-linked markets.

Title

Biodiversity and Business in Latin America

Authors

Michael Rubino, Diana Propper de Callejon, Tony Lent

Institutions

International Finance Corporation, Environmental Projects Unit

Date

2000

Abstract

“Biodiversity businesses” represent a new and dynamic partnership. This alliance between business and conservation interests offers enormous potential benefits for all humankind. Like traditional businesses, biodiversity enterprises seek to earn a profit. At the same time, they make a deliberate effort to conserve biological diversity through the sustainable use of environmental products in sectors such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism. If their record in Latin America is any indication, these businesses are booming. But the industry is still in its infancy and in need of new sources of capital. This report outlines (a) the business and conservation rationale for investing in such businesses and (b) some of the investment opportunities in biodiversity-linked markets.

Citation

2004 - Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T11:44:06Z

This report by IUCN and Insight Investment aims to to explore the potential and limitations of biodiversity offsets, i.e., conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity, based on expert interviews on existing regulatory regimes.

Title

Biodiversity offsets: Views, experiences, and the business case

Authors

Kerry ten Kate, Josh Bishop, Ricardo Bayon

Institutions

IUCN, Insight Investment

Date

November 2004

Abstract

Citation

ten Kate, K.., Bishop, J., and Bayon, R. (2004). Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK and Insight Investment, London, UK.

2006 - Comments on "Building Biodiversity Business"

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T11:25:16Z

Commenting on the IUCN/Shell report published in 2008, De Man points out that "business cases for biodiversity" should not divert attention from the fact that a majority of biodiversity related business opportunities, and in fact the most profitable ones, still provide incentives for its destruction rather than its conservation.

Title

Some Comments on ‘Building Biodiversity Business: Report of a Scoping Study'

Authors

Reinier de Man

Institutions

Date

November 2006

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Citation

2009 - Corporate Ecosystem Valuation: A Scoping Study

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T11:15:57Z

This report was prepared for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and identifies the extent to which common economic valuation techniques of biodiversity and ecosystem services are applicable and relevant for business, in particular as tools for business planning and management to improve financial performance and profits.

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Corporate Ecosystem Valuation: A Scoping Study

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Institutions

Prepared for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development by Environment Management Group & Ecosystem Economics LLC

Date

May 2009

Abstract

This report identifies the extent to which common economic valuation techniques of biodiversity and ecosystem services are applicable and relevant for business, in particular as tools for business planning and management to improve financial performance and profits. Benchmarking with studies and methods applied by the public sector, the study finds little documentation on ecosystem valuation for and by business. It calls for more case studies and novel valuation techniques within a comprehensive WBCSD Ecosystem Valuation Initiative.

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2008 - Building Biodiversity Business

Julian Rode — 2010-01-05T11:06:05Z

This study by IUCN and Shell on Building Biodiversity Business (2008) presents a variety of "business cases" for biodiversity in which economic incentives are (re-)oriented to make biodiversity conservation a profitable business in its own right.

Title

Building Biodiversity Business

Authors

Joshua Bishop, Sachin Kapila, Frank Hicks, Paul Mitchell, Francis Vorhies

Institutions

IUCN, Shell

Date

2008

Abstract

Citation

Bishop, J., Kapila, S., Hicks, F., Mitchell, P. and Vorhies, F. 2008. Building Biodiversity Business. Shell International Limited and the International Union for Conservation of Nature: London, UK, and Gland, Switzerland. 164 pp.