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Events putting nature firmly on the ESG agenda

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It was a week which underlined how much nature has solidified its place on the business agenda alongside climate issues - with the inaugural Carbon & Nature Forum, a Nature Panel at the Business Post ESG & Sustainable Business Summit,…
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National Biodiversity Week coming up from May 15-24

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This year's annual National Biodiversity Week is taking place May 15th - 24th with over 200 free events nationwide, and more being added to the website. Biodiversity Week, coordinated by the Irish Environmental Network (IEN) and supported…
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BFBI nominated for Business & Finance ESG Award

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland has been announced as a finalist in the Business & Finance ESG Awards 2026, in association with Grant Thornton Ireland. We have been nominated in the 'Biodiversity Leadership in Business' category for…
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BFBI Partner Event: ESG & Sustainability Summit

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We are pleased to announce that Business for Biodiversity Ireland is partnering with the Business Post ESG and Sustainability Summit 2026, taking place at Croke Park, Dublin on 15 April. The Summit will convene senior leaders from business,…
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Webinar: FIT Counts to Monitor Pollinators

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Our colleagues in the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC), which co-ordinates the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, have a free ‘Lunch & Learn’ webinar coming up on April 1st, 12pm - FIT Counts to Monitor Pollinators in 10 minutes. As…
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New: National Biodiversity Action Plan progress report

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A progress report on the 4th National Biodiversity Action Plan 2023-2030 has been published with almost 80% of 194 actions on track or complete. Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan TD, has published…
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Discover your business case for biodiversity – resource

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Have you explored our new and improved Discovery Track? We recently repackaged our Discovery resources into 10 swift steps for an easy-to-follow introductory module for our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme for Irish businesses and sustainability…
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IPBES Business & Biodiversity Report 2026

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IPBES Business & Biodiversity Report Summary: Landmark report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) with guidance for policymakers from 79 experts from 35 countries, drawn from science and the private…
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Caroline Cawley is our new Business Programme Lead

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Business for Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to announce that Caroline Cawley will be taking over as our Business Programme Lead. Caroline, who will be working with our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme member organisations as they…
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Nature Benchmark shows EU leading 750 companies

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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has released the results of their Nature Benchmark which tracks and measures how 750 of the world's most influential companies are reducing their negative impacts on nature and contributing to the protection…
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Site will showcase members’ leadership on biodiversity

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland (BFBI) is delighted to announce a new partnership with SustainabilityExamples.com - a collaboration to help our member organisations share biodiversity and climate action initiatives to contribute to collective…
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Assess: Disclose nature impacts and dependencies

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BFBI Business Programme Lead Dr Catherine Farrell CIEEM, Assistant Professor in Business and Nature at Trinity College Dublin, writes on emerging nature-related disclosure requirements and how stakeholder engagement is a key process step in…
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Join us at the Business Post ESG Autumn Summit 2025

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Business for Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to once again be partnering with the Business Post ESG Autumn Summit, on Thursday, November 20th in Croke Park, Dublin. BFBI Business Programme Lead Dr Catherine Farrell CIEEM, Asst Prof at Trinity…
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Dr Maria Fitzpatrick is our new Executive Director

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to welcome Dr Maria Fitzpatrick as our new Executive Director. Maria originally joined BFBI as our Business Development Manager and will continue to work closely with our business members as…
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Event: Join BFBI at the EU Business & Nature Summit

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The BFBI team is looking forward to joining Business for Nature at the European Business and Nature Summit 2025 on October 23rd in Helsinki, Finland. The Irish contingent will be out in force with BFBI's Dr Emer Ní Dhúill participating…
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Event: Join us for the Energy Transition Summit 2025

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland is partnering with the Business Post Energy Transition Summit 2025 on October 15 - bringing together key voices to discuss topics around the transition in Dublin's Croke Park. As noted in a recent National…
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Strategy Track Workshop 3: bringing it all together

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Following on from earlier Strategy Track workshops, where we focused on the key elements of what a Nature Ambition Statement is (and why every organisation should have one!) and how to set SMART nature targets, BFBI Business Programme Lead Dr…
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Resistance to regulatory rollback on nature laws

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Resistance is growing from the business community and civil society on EU plans to roll back recently introduced laws on corporate sustainability reporting intended to help halt and reverse the degradation of nature, amid lobbying by opposing…
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Webinar: Introducing the Nature-Based Enterprise

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BFBI is delighted to announce an introductory webinar on new market opportunities in nature-based solutions. This webinar is organised in collaboration with the Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform which brings together communities of nature-based…
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Assess: How your business interfaces with nature

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BFBI Business Programme Lead Dr Catherine Farrell CIEEM, Trinity College Dublin, writes on the process steps around undertaking a Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) to help guide your nature strategy: this article focuses on the ways to understand…
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Dr Maria Fitzpatrick is our new Business Development Manager

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Business for Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to announce the newest member of our team, Dr Maria Fitzpatrick, who has taken on the role of Business Development Manager, working with Irish businesses to ensure they get the most from their membership…
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Biodiversity Duty Reporting Guidance for Public Bodies

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Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan TD, has launched the Biodiversity Duty Reporting Guidance for Public Bodies, developed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service with support from Business for…
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BFBI nominated for Business & Finance ESG Awards 2025

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to be named as a finalist in the Business & Finance Media Group ESG Awards 2025 - in association with Grant Thornton Ireland - in the 'Biodiversity Leadership in Business Award' category. The…
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Dr Catherine Farrell is our Business Programme Lead

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Business For Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to announce that Dr Catherine Farrell is moving over from our Board of Directors to take on the role of Business Programme Lead. A pioneer of ecological restoration and research in Ireland and…
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What’s the Business Outlook for Nature in 2025?

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2024 was an eventful year for those of us working in advancing nature action at both national and global level. The much-contested  EU Nature Restoration Law  was brought in – and the Green Party, which was in Government at the…
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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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