On November 14, we’ll host a Lunch and Learn webinar to get recent and joining members up to speed on how and where your business interacts with nature and biodiversity. What risks are businesses facing in this nature crisis? How do we address these risks? How can the nature-positive approach bring opportunities to your business? […]
Business For Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Board of Directors to guide and inform our work to ensure Irish businesses are ready to join the global push for a transition to a nature-positive economy. With a climate and biodiversity emergency declared by the Government in 2019, the BFBI platform […]
Business For Biodiversity Ireland (BFBI) has released our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme to guide Irish businesses to develop a strong, credible strategy to identify their impacts and dependencies on nature and ensure compliance with the new EU legislation regarding environmental reporting. The Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme has been developed following a series of insightful […]
With only a quarter of our wild species remaining on the planet, we need to act now to protect what’s left, writes BFBI Executive Director Lucy Gaffney. As COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan draws ever closer, the alignment of biodiversity and climate is emerging as a key theme, with nature featuring specifically on day 10 (21st […]
The Nature Positive Initiative has launched a collaborative effort for a global biodiversity measurement and has opened an expert consultation to gather feedback on the proposed standardised metrics framework. Nature Positive Initiative convener, Marco Lambertini, pictured, launched the State of Nature Metrics consultation at the inagural Global Nature Positive Summit in Sydney, Australia last week. […]
Companies are taking a variety of approaches to conducting materiality assessments for their annual reporting in terms of biodiversity and other #ESG topics – but how to be sure your approach is on the right track? As we compare and contrast assessment approaches in the course of our research, we have noticed that some reports […]
The European Business & Biodiversity Forum is coming up in Brussels this September 19, 2024. The Forum, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature, formerly the World Wildlife Fund, with the support of the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform, will build on the momentum for biodiversity and calls for growing transformative action from business, with […]
The World Benchmarking Alliance has released an updated Nature Benchmark, assessing how more than 800 major companies across varied sectors are impacting nature and protecting and restoring ecosystems. Using company data and performance from 2022-2024, the research finds that, although some companies are helping to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, the majority do not yet fully […]
Our platform lead Lucy Gaffney was delighted to join an in-person workshop in Brussels with our colleagues in the network of national business and biodiversity platforms, coordinated by the EU B&B Platform. This network generally meets online on a monthly basis with a focus on policy developments and peer-to-peer learning – it was very valuable […]
The European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has been signed into law by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke TD, coming into effect for Ireland on July 6, 2024. The CSRD requires that all large companies and all listed companies (except listed micro-enterprises) report sustainability information in accordance with European Sustainability Reporting […]
Business for Biodiversity Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation supporting businesses in their journey to nature positive.
Membership is open to any company that operates on the island of Ireland.
Business for Biodiversity Ireland were awarded the Climate-Positive Website Accreditation by the Eco- Friendly Web Alliance
Please reach out to us with any questions, comments or ideas that you have at manager@businessforbiodiversity.ie
Calling Irish businesses of all sizes and sectors - join the free #DiscoveryTrack for our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme #GetOnTrack 🌱With the national business & biodiversity platform, access guidance to a strong #NatureStrategy, aligned with the #NaturePositive movement
Climate resilience is emerging as a new frontier in fighting poverty.
Our @WorldBank report shows 66% of #EconomicInclusion programs now help communities adapt through innovative approaches such as climate-smart farming & risk insurance.
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Climate scientists say warming temperatures and droughts are making wildfires more frequent and intense.
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