In this session, IUCN and its partners will present an approach for developing a corporate level biodiversity strategic plan that allows companies to measure their biodiversity performance across their operations. This approach can be used by any company in any sector that has impacts and dependencies on biodiversity, whether large or small, national or multinational.

The approach is captured in the IUCN Guidelines for the Planning and Monitoring Corporate Biodiversity Performance, which will be launched on the occasion of this session.

Speakers and the topics they will address:

Giulia Carbone, Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme at IUCN

Presenting: context and rationale for the IUCN Guidelines

P.J. Stephenson, Chair of the Monitoring Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), and an independent consultant and a research fellow at the University of Lausanne

Presenting: the four-stage approach

Katie Leach, Senior Programme Officer, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)

Presenting: on how different corporate approaches, such as the IUCN Guidelines and the SBTN guidelines, complement each other

Julie Reneau, Sustainability Strategy and Stakeholder Relationship Manager at Nespresso

Presenting: the application of the IUCN Guidelines to a coffee company sourcing from multiple suppliers worldwide

Claire Bryant, Group Sustainability and Social Responsibility Manager at Boskalis and Fokko van der Goot, Senior Environmental Manager at Boskalis, and Program Manager at EcoShape

Presenting: the application of the IUCN Guidelines to a global marine services company, in association with nature-based solutions

Rosa García Pineiro, Vice President Sustainability and President of Alcoa Foundation

Presenting: the application of the IUCN Guidelines in a global mining, refining and smelting company

If you have any questions, please email biobiz@iucn.org