- Main companies Syensqo, BASF, PPC, Titan, Hitachi, Autostrade per l’Italia, Leonardo, Coca-Cola HBC, and the nationwide CSR Community Impronta Etica joined forces to combine stable biodiversity administration methods into enterprise operations.
- In 2024, the Alliance will prioritize mitigating enterprise website impacts on biodiversity, integrating conservation efforts into CSR and sustainability insurance policies.
- In 2025, the Alliance will open to the participation of non-member corporations. To study extra, companies are invited to hitch Alliance companions on the European Sustainable Trade Summit 2024, for the roundtable on “Biodiversity Administration: Enterprise Methods in Motion”, happening in Brussels on 25 June.
Brussels, 18/04/2024 – CSR Europe and the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) formally launched the business-led Biodiversity Alliance for Sustainable Administration at a high-level kick-off assembly on 17 April. The initiative brings collectively main companies Syensqo, BASF, PPC, Titan, Hitachi, Autostrade per l’Italia, Leonardo, Coca Cola HBC and the Italian sustainability community Impronta Etica to boost biodiversity preservation and combine nature-centric approaches into company methods and operations.
With the help of CSR Europe and WHC, in 2024 Alliance companions will focus their efforts to:
- Share finest practices and methods on threat and impression assessments and administration methods.
- Establish a set of metrics and administration instruments to scale up and improve the impression of widespread and particular person efforts on biodiversity.
- Perceive higher implement present EU necessities on biodiversity as a part of the Company Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Sustainability Reporting Requirements (ESRS), in addition to worldwide necessities such because the Taskforce on Nature-related Monetary Disclosures (TNFD) and the Kunming-Montreal International Biodiversity Framework.
- Discover how biodiversity efforts could be leveraged to contribute to a Simply Transition.
In the course of the digital inaugural assembly, Alliance members engaged in insightful discussions on key developments linking enterprise operations with nature. Emphasis was positioned on the essential significance of integrating nature and biodiversity in company methods, making certain ecological resilience and sustainable improvement. Members exchanged helpful insights and views, laying the groundwork for collaborative motion and shared studying within the months forward.
After a year-long incubation interval, in 2025 the Alliance will open the participation to exterior companies. corporations are invited to hitch the devoted European Roundtable “Biodiversity Administration: Enterprise Methods in Motion”, happening within the framework of the European Sustainable Trade Summit, on 25-26 June 2024.
MEDIA CONTACT
Lorena Sorrentino, Supplies Supervisor: ls@csreurope.org
ABOUT CSR EUROPE
CSR Europe is the main European enterprise community for Company Sustainability and Accountability. With our company members, Nationwide Accomplice Organisations (NPOs), and Related Companions, we unite, encourage & help over 10,000 enterprises at native, European and international degree. We help companies & business sectors of their transformation and collaboration in direction of sensible options and sustainable progress. We’re for systemic change. Following the SDGs, we wish to co-build with the European leaders and stakeholders an overarching technique for a Sustainable Europe 2030. Be taught extra at www.csreurope.org.
ABOUT WHC
WHC (Wildlife Habitat Council) has been working on the nexus of enterprise and biodiversity for 35 years and is the one worldwide NGO targeted solely on enabling non-public sector motion for nature. WHC’s company members are main nationwide and multi-national firms, and their collective efforts have resulted in additional than 1,500 WHC-certified applications around the globe. Be taught extra at www.wildlifehc.org.
