Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Resources
Resources
The aim of this document is to guide cement companies on how to better manage biodiversity by recommending a methodology and including many sources of information which the... Read More
See here: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/business/assets/pdf/tool-descriptions/BIM%20summary%20description.pdf
This tool enables a business to measure its impact on biodiversity based on the two major pressure factors ‘Land use’ (type of management and number of hectares) and... Read More
Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Sustainability is nowadays accepted by all stakeholders as a guiding principle for both public policy making and corporate strategies. However, the biggest challenge for... Read More
Primary Functions:Make the business case for investing in natural infrastructure, including healthy river basins and wetlandsThe Natural Infrastructure for Business... Read More
Since 2014, the Biodiversity Footprint for Financial Institutions (BFFI) is used to calculate the bank’s biodiversity footprint and monitor progress towards this... Read More
The Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) is a rapid, low-cost, participatory valuation tool designed to be used by non-experts for assessing the... Read More
A tool designed to help investors in new woodland to assess the social, environmental, and economic benefits of their investment.
Business activities are an important driver for the loss of biodiversity, but business also depends on nature and the goods and services it provides to operate. Therefore,... Read More
C-ROADS is a free, award-winning computer simulator that helps people understand the long-term climate impacts of actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You can use... Read More
ARIES redefines ecosystem services assessment and valuation in decision-making. The ARIES approach to mapping benefits, beneficiaries, and service flows is a powerful new... Read More
In response to the need for incorporating quantified and spatially explicit measures of social values into ecosystem service assessments, the geographic information system... Read More
The first ever comprehensive, third party audits of a global viscose and rayon producer to assess their risk of sourcing from the world’s endangered forests. Conducted by... Read More
The second post talked about how clothing companies are turning forests into fashion. In order to produce rayon, viscose and other textiles, companies source fiber through... Read More
Provides information on and access to spatial modelling and mapping tools for mapping ecosystem services, water resources and the impacts of climate and land use change... Read More
