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Our next members webinar is coming up this November

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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…
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Welcoming the BFBI Board

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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…
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The BFBI Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme

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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…
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Living Planet Report: Nature is hanging in the balance 

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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…
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Materiality: The five steps that will get you on track

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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…
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Benchmark report reveals nature blindspot

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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…
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BFBI joins the Nature Positive Forum

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland is pleased to announce that we are joining the Nature Positive Forum.We are committed to helping secure a nature-positive world - one where there is more biodiversity in 2030 than there was compared to the…
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Sign up: BFBI membership is free until April 2024

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The Business for Biodiversity Ireland platform is calling on Irish businesses of every size and sector to come together to accelerate action for nature by signing up to our members' hub today. Our Government-backed national platform has a…
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BFBI’s year in review: A look back at the highlights

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2023 was a big year for biodiversity and another busy year for Business For Biodiversity Ireland - a look back at some of the major moves transforming the landscape for nature at a global and local level... EU Nature Restoration Law: After…
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Business for Biodiversity Ireland @ COP15

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BFBI Platform Lead Lucy Gaffney writes: It was a great privilege to attend COP15 at the  Palais des Congrès in Montréal for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 15th Conference of the Parties last December. This was the first COP…
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Mobilising business for nature? This is where the magic happens…

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  Day 2 of the Business and Biodiversity forum of COP15 in Montreal - and a long day of sessions and panel discussions about the role of government got me thinking. The #MakeitMandatory campaign focuses on Target 15 of the Global Biodiversity…
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COP15, why is it important for business in Ireland?

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COP15 in under way in Montreal, Canada and Ireland has sent a delegation to attend these negotiations that will hopefully deliver a plan to address global biodiversity loss.The talks are centred around the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework…
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Are we expecting too much of our SMEs?

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After a phenomenal week in Brussels as co-hosts of the European Business and Nature Summit (EBNS), I noted that there was a distinct lack of attendance by the Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) community, despite having numerous sessions dedicated…
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Register for the European Business & Nature Summit

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Registration is now open for the European Business & Nature Summit, co-hosted by Business For Biodiversity Ireland with the EU Business @ Biodiversity Platform in Brussels this October. A number of high-profile speakers have been announced. The…
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We’ve started our journey…

The Business For Biodiversity platform has been launched to help businesses to take strategic action for biodiversity, supported by KPMG, Gas Networks Ireland, Bord na Móna and Coillte. At the launch at the National Biodiversity Conference…
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The business ecosystem

The natural world is full of synergistic relationships - relationships that provide mutual benefits and opportunities. These relationships are part of a larger interconnected system, which is optimised, successful and thrives within the…
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What is a Nature Positive Business?

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Many of us have heard this term “nature positive” used in the context of business and biodiversity, but what does it actually mean? “Nature positive” as a term is being worked on by the Nature Positive Initiative and you can read…
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How does my business depend on nature?

How does my business depend on nature? This is a question increasingly being asked of business in recent years, but for some sectors, it can be a tricky one to answer. Businesses do not operate outside of the boundaries of nature and ecosystems.…
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Business for Biodiversity Ireland were awarded the Climate-Positive Website Accreditation by the Eco- Friendly Web Alliance

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