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Advisory Board of
the EU B@B Platform
11 February 2021 from 14:00-15:30h CET
Chaired by Mr. Stefan Leiner, Head of the Biodiversity Unit
at the European Commission
EU B@B
Platform
Agenda
Introduction
14:00-14:10 Welcome & introduction: Business and Biodiversity, a fast-moving
agenda at EU and global level
14:10-14:15 Progress of the EU B@B Platform on its mission and focus on USP
14:15-14:30 Presentation of the priorities identified for 2021
Interactive session
14:30-15:20 Fostering synergies to engage business on biodiversity by sharing
feedback and expectations
15:20-15:30 Wrap up: fostering biodiversity in other policy agendas
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EU
Business @
Welcome & introduction:
Biodiversity
Platform
Business and Biodiversity, a fast-
moving agenda at EU and global level
Stefan Leiner, Head of the Biodiversity Unit at the European Commission
Ongoing policy
developments
• EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030
• EU nature restoration targets
• Sustainable Finance with NFRD and Taxonomy for
sustainable activities
• SME focus
• Green Claims
• ALIGN & TRANSPARENT
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“ It can seem quite overwhelming for
businesses, because you have so much
momentum, so many activities, so many
initiatives that are out there. The question
always remains: “What becomes my entry
point or how do I even engage with a topic
that is so complex it does not even have a
global goal for itself?”
Akanksha Khatri, Head of Nature Action Agenda for
World Economic Forum’s Platform for Global Public
Goods, WEF
EBNS, 9 December 2020
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“ It can seem quite overwhelming for
businesses, because you have so much
momentum, so many activities, so many
initiatives that are out there. The question
There is a window of
opportunity for the
Platform to play a strong
role in this context and
always remains: “What becomes my entry build on existing
point or how do I even engage with a topic initiatives, create
that is so complex it does not even have a synergies and become
global goal for itself?” the entry point for
businesses and
Akanksha Khatri, Head of Nature Action Agenda for
financials.
World Economic Forum’s Platform for Global Public
Goods, WEF
EBNS, 9 December 2020
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Biodiversity
Platform
Progress of the EU B@B Platform on its
mission and focus on USPs
Lars Müller, Policy Officer at DG Environment, European Commission
Our mission:
reverse nature loss
by supporting
businesses
throughout their
biodiversity and
nature journey
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Key deliverables
met in 2020
• Third update report of the series “Assessment
of biodiversity measurement approaches”
• Biodiversity Measurement Navigation Wheel
v.1.0
• Guidance document linked to the Finance for
Biodiversity Pledge
• Guide for finance on biodiversity measurement
approaches
• SMEs & nature survey as a collaborative effort
between the Capitals Coalition, We Value
Nature and the Enterprise Europe Network
• European Business & Nature Summit
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Key challenges
ahead
• How to speed up action to reverse biodiversity loss by businesses
and financial institutions by 2030?
• How to accelerate and facilitate collaboration between business
and financial institutions without duplicating existing initiatives and
ongoing activities?
• What are the priorities for action and how can the Platform
maximise its impacts?
• How to engage SMEs to create a European “Business for
Biodiversity Movement”?
• How to ensure the COVID-19 crisis does not push nature down on
the agenda?
10Key questions
for discussion
1. What challenges should the Platform’s workstreams
prioritise in 2021?
2. In which of the areas identified as priority can you
contribute?
3. What synergies can be created (avoiding overlaps)?
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Platform
Develop ‘Methods’
Johan Lammerant, Lead Expert Natural Capital and Biodiversity at
Arcadis & Methods workstream leaderWorkplan
WS Methods
Objectives Suggested activities 2021
• Continue leading role in • Capture and analyse new methodologies
assessing methodologies and metrics and new case studies in next “Assessment
• Set up and host a hub for piloting report”
methodologies • New focus areas: data sources, combining
• Provide guidance on how to select the most approaches and metrics, multitool case
suitable methodologies based on businesses’ studies
specific needs
• Webinar series on Navigation Wheel and
• Foster integration of biodiversity in PEF and in case studies
natural capital accounting principles for
businesses and financiers • Investigate transformation of Biodiversity
Measurement Navigation Wheel into an
online toolEU
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Biodiversity
Platform
Support ‘Pioneers’
Anne-Marie Bor, Coordinator Finance for Biodiversity Pledge & Pioneers
workstream leaderWorkplan
WS Pioneers
Objectives Suggested activities 2021
Facilitate the work of the Finance@Biodiversity
• Facilitate exchange among pioneers and early Community
followers
• Develop a comprehensive overview of finance &
• Facilitate transformation within a group of leading biodiversity initiatives
financials through knowledge sharing and
exchange
• Share practices among pioneers, focusing on
engagement:
• Provide pioneers the tools to approach borrowers • ESG-policies
and facilitate integration of the biodiversity • Ongoing engagements and collaboration
component • ‘Nature Positive 100’?
• Engaging with research on target setting (SBTN) • Consolidate and share lessons learned with other
financiers
• Contribute to identifying and addressing ‘data
• Share practices among pioneers on measurement
gaps’ approaches (in cooperation with workstream
Methods)EU
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Platform
‘Mainstream’ biodiversity
Jerome Kisielewicz, Managing Consultant at ICF & Mainstreaming
workstream leaderWorkplan
WS Mainstreaming
Objectives Suggested activities 2021
• Engage with new group of businesses and • Develop guidance for SMEs
financial institutions on biodiversity and
natural capital • Develop guidance for intermediaries
• Facilitate the exchange of information among • Inform the development of the Farm-to-Fork
national B&B networks and other relevant Code of Conduct
networks
• Foster cooperation among national B&B
• Represent the views and interests of the EU
platforms
B@B Platform community in ongoing policy
developmentsEU
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Biodiversity
Platform
Fostering synergies to engage business
on biodiversity
Stefan Leiner, Head of the Biodiversity Unit at the European CommissionKey questions
for discussion
1. What challenges should the Platform’s workstreams
prioritise in 2021?
2. In which of the areas identified as priority can you
contribute?
3. What synergies can be created (avoiding overlaps)?
19Specific elements requiring your feedback
WS Methods WS Pioneers WS Mainstreaming
How can we speed up the How can financial institutions What synergies could be created
uptake of biodiversity best engage with their clients on with other initiatives actively
measurement approaches by biodiversity? engaging or looking to engage
businesses? with SMEs on nature and
biodiversity?
To which other initiatives should
How can we ensure businesses our work on engagement be
adopt meaningful and relevant linked?
biodiversity targets?
EBNS: How should the EBNS evolve to respond to the needs of the business community?
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Wrap up: fostering biodiversity in other
policy agendas
Stefan Leiner, Head of the Biodiversity Unit at the European CommissionThank you.
Any further questions?
Visit our website
or contact:
Lars.Mueller@ec.europa.eu
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AnnexThe Platform’s
Unique Selling
Points (USP)
EC status/position Objectivity & neutrality Focus on biodiversity
• Unique potential to • Neutral information on the • Global momentum to
foster synergies available biodiversity create a Global
across 27MS measurement approaches Biodiversity Framework
• Connect national for businesses and FI and New Deal for
platforms & networks • Guidance on navigating the Nature and People at
landscape of tools and the next United Nations
• Strengthen efforts (UN) Biodiversity
across policy sectors metrics, based on an
independent assessment of Conference in China in
(GROW, SANTE, 2021 (COP15)
FISMA) tools and case studies
• Link with ALIGNGreat individual/collective achievements across
our workstreams…
WS Methods WS Pioneers WS Mainstreaming
✓ Webinar series on ✓ Webinar series on “SBT for ✓ National platform meeting
“Measuring biodiversity for Biodiversity” and SBT leaflet sharing best practices
business and finance”
✓ Support the creation of the ✓ Engagement strategy in
5 webinars and 350
Finance for Biodiversity place targeting SMEs
participants
Pledge 37 signatories (research, mapping,
✓ Creation of review panel for engagement fiches)
✓ Guidance ‘Finance for
screening case studies
Biodiversity’’ ✓ Starting a collaboration with
✓ 18 case studies new partners to engage SME
✓ Annexes on measurement
✓ New navigation wheel approaches for the finance ✓ Launch of SME survey to
sector is under way inform the future
✓ Update #3 Biodiversity
engagement process
Assessment Report .
✓ Webinar series with EIB
25European
#BusinessNature
Summit 2020
• 738 attendees across the two day, 90% of whom stayed for at least 3
sessions
• Day 1 = 580
• Day 2 = 485
• 50% businesses vs 50% non-businesses
• 40 speakers
• 8 hours of enriching discussions on the interconnections between
business & nature
➔ The EBNS acts as a catalyst for action on biodiversity by corporates.
26Growing
community
351 1850 5.081.000
Members Newsletter Accounts reached by the
subscribers #BusinessNatureSummit
+59 in 2020 Twitter campaign
+5 in January 2021 +641 in 2020
The Platform is expanding beyond its member base
and gaining in policy relevance.EU
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pipeline activities 2021
Biodiversity
Platform
Updates provided by Advisory Board members for the Board
meeting of 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:30h CETMain achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Considerable increase in interest and • Transparent and ALIGN –
uptake of capitals e.g., HSBC/Pollinator Standardizing natural capital
• Operational Guidelines for food sector • COVID recovery project
• United natural, social & human capital • New website and collaboration
communities & established entity hub
• Principles of integrated Capitals • Accountability Project –
• Grew to 380+ organizations, and global validation/ verification /
community of 20,000+ certification of a capitals
approach
29Entreprises pour
l’Environnement
(EpE)
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Biodiversity Commission of EpE: end of a • New cycle of Biodiversity
cycle of 4 years to identify the conditions Commission: « How to value
for upscaling Corporate solutions for nature and enhance Nature-
biodiversity. based-Solutions »
• October, 1, 2020: Public presentation of • Upscaling Corporate Solutions
the French version of the Report for Biodiversity: publication
“Solutions pour la biodiversité : changer available in English on February
d’échelle” in the presence of the Minister 23, 2021.
of State for biodiversity, CEOs and
partners • www.epe-asso.org/en
• https://youtu.be/yWyAwH4gzxY
30Act4nature
international
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• 19 businesses updated their • More than 40 new act4nature
commitments to act4nature international commitments are
international. expected.
• 8 new businesses committed. • The committments
• October, 1: public presentation of the implementation between 2018
new commitments in the presence of the and 2020, and the new
secretary of State in charge of committments will be promoted
biodiversity, CEOs and partners at the IUCN Congress.
• Transport4nature will be
www.act4nature.com/en launched by IENE at the IUCN
Congress.
31IUCN
Business & Biodiversity 2021 pipeline
Programme • Expanding business application of
Nature-based Solutions in Europe via
Main achievements in 2020 WVN and Network Nature
• Identify key gaps to shift financial flows
• Value nature: Outreach & training under We from Nature negative to Nature positive
Value Nature (WVN). Corporate Biodiversity
• Scaling up regenerative agriculture
Performance guidelines (Launch in March)
policies and practices
• Promote biodiversity net gain: Strong
• Advocating for post-Covid Nature-
engagement with extractives & support for
based Recovery packages (EU Green
decarbonisation pathways (Renewables, O&G,
Deal, G20, etc.)
Materials)
• Mitigating biodiversity impacts in
• Invest in Nature-based Solutions (NbS):
Renewables launch on 24 February
Launched IUCN Global Standard for NbS & self-
assesment tool; setting-up technical assistance • IUCN World Conservation Congress
facilities ( Blue Natural Capital Finance Facility) and CEO Summit on 3 September
32Business for
Nature
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Raised business voice calling for • Engage CBD negotiators & other
policy ambition, incl. >700 companies policymakers on BfN position on
signed “Nature is everyone’s business” Post-2020 Framework
Call to Action, CEO videos, released • Dive deeper in national
policy recommendations + collective engagement, e.g. China, Brazil,
voice, e.g. G20 letter. South Africa, India…
• Represented at UN Biodiversity • Simplify and converge how
Summit in Sep by CEO speaker companies can assess, commit,
• Boosted CBD engagement, incl. act & advocate for nature-
OEWG 2, business guide with ICC positive (& net zero)
33Value Balancing Transformation and system change
Alliance requires the cooperative power of all
players in the business ecosystem
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Developed and piloted Methodology • Publish Methodology Impact Statement v0.1
Impact Statement v0.1 focus Environment and Socio-economy
• Provided real economy input to • Develop and pilot Impact Statement v0.2
• EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (“value to society”) and Integrated Account v0.1
(subgroup on data and usability) (“value to enterprise”) reflecting double-
• EFRAG Project Task Force on NFRD materiality concept
(via member companies)
• OECD Business for Inclusive Growth
• Start public consultation on Principles of
(working group on impact measurement) Natural Capital Accounting with Transparent
consortium partners Capitals Coalition,
• Introduced Impact Measurement and WBCSD and DG ENV*
Valuation to key stakeholders in Europe
and beyond (South Korea, Japan, Canada, etc.)
*The EU has provided the VBA led consortium with financial support under grant agreement n° LIFE LIFE19 PRE DE 005 to develop a standard for measuring and 34
valuing environmental impacts of companies in monetary terms.‘Biodiversity in Good
Company’ Initiative
2021 pipeline
Main achievements in 2020 • Further development of
current projects, in particular
• Start of “digital dialogue” advocacy for post 2020
• Launch of “German business for biodiversity framework and
biodiversity” “digital dialogue” (incl. online
seminar for SME)
• New members
• Dialogforum, 24.03.
• Kick off workshop vision to 2030
• Extention of collaboration with
• Intensifying engagement within
Federal Ministery of
GPBB
Environment (UBi-project)
• Biodiversity - food sector
(Initiative)
35References
‘Biodiversity in Good
Company’ Initiative
Vision to 2030 National Dialogforum German Business
„Biodiversity and for Biodiversity
Business: national https://www.germa
chances for global n-business-for-
biodiversity.de/en/
challenges“
March, 24, online
https://www.ubi2020-
dialogforum.de/
36Ecoacsa Reserva
de Biodiversidad
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Members of the IWG of the TNFD • Launch of the Natural Capital Factory
• Members of the SBTN Corporate Engagement Program Working Groups on Forestry sector &
Water
• Adaptation of LIFE Methodology & Certification to EU (4
ongoing pilots in energy sector & 1 agrifood –potential-) • Engaging with the Latin American
Community on Natural Capital
• Agreement with GBCe to mainstream biodiversity into
green building certification systems Accounting and SBTN
• Co-leaders of the Working Group on Natural Capital of the • Ongoing work with the WG
Spanish Green Growth Group, along with Creando Redes on Natural Capital and Energy (launch of
the Spanish co-hort report, TBC)
• Leaders of the Spanish Environment Congress'
TC6 on "The future of climate and nature- • Launch of the report on
related risks and their financial impacts" biodiversity mainstreaming performance
• Launch of the Natural Capital Factory webinars series of the Spanish Ibex 35 listed companies
37CDC Biodiversité 2021 pipeline
Global Biodiversity Score:
• GBS 1.1.0
Main achievements in 2020
• Biodiversity Footprint Assessment (BFA)
Global Biodiversity Score : • GBS Tranings
• ABMB • publications :
• Lauch GBS 1.0 and the opening event + ➢ 4 priority sectors oh the 2018 French
publication Biodiversity Plan (buildings and materials,
agro-food, energy, chemicals)
• 1st end-to-end biodiveristy footprint : Schneider
Electric ➢ GBS updating
• Workshops : EBNS warm up, EU B@B on • Join and contribute to the PBAF
SBT/corporate/finance • Biodiversity Impacts Analytics (BIA) with
Carbon4 Finance
Caisse des Dépôts Group:
• Pledge “Finance for Biodiversity” European Investment Bank (EIB) :
• NCFF (offsetting sites, ie. Cossure)
38Main achievements in 2020
• Application guidance for climate-related disclosures
• The state of EU environmental disclosure in 2020
• Training of corporates
2021 pipeline
• Nature-related financial disclosures
• Application guidance for water-related disclosures
• Application guidance for land-use and biodiversity-related
disclosure
• Training of corporates
39UNEP FI
(Ecosystems/Nature
workstream)
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Launch of TNFD Informal Working Group • Update strategy w member advisory group
(IWG) w partners • PRB biodiversity guidance launch (w
• Launch of Sustainable Blue Economy Finance WCMC, SBTN); potential collective action
Initiative: w partners 55 members and • ENCORE biodiversity module and how-to
guidance launch; continue uptake efforts (NCFA)
• ENCORE widely used in ‘making the case’ e.g. • Food systems sustainable finance
by DNB, Swiss Re, WEF (NCFA) (climate/nature, UNSG Summit)
• Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) • Support to CBD post-2020 GBF
biodiversity targets working group development
established
• TNFD launch
• ‘Beyond Business as Usual’ released (NCFA)
40DG Reseach and 2021 pipeline
Innovation > over 100 R&I actions support EU
Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
implementation
Main achievements in 2020 Cluster 6 ‘Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment’ will
include a long-term strategic research agenda for biodiversity.
HORIZON 2020 Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Destination:
▪ understanding biodiversity decline;
> €2.6 billion EU ▪ valuing and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services;
investments in biodiversity- ▪ managing biodiversity in primary production;
related research ▪ enabling transformative change on biodiversity;
▪ interconnecting biodiversity research and supporting policies.
> In 2020, the Green Deal
European Partnership on Biodiversity R&I, ENV, co-funded with MS
Call (€1bn, launch 18/09),
includes ecosystems
restoration.
> 70 cities in Nature-based ▪ Climate adaptation
solutions demonstration projects ▪ Oceans & water
▪ Soils
▪ Climate mitigation
41NATURAL CAPITAL
IRELAND
Main achievements in 2020 2021 pipeline
• Produced two animated videos to introduce • Launched report to improve Ireland’s next
natural capital concepts – An Introduction to Biodiversity Action Plan
Natural Capital Accounting and Natural www.biodiversityimpactplan.ie
Capital on Farmland
• Hosting a Data 4 Nature conference in May
• Conducted Irish Business & Biodiversity study to highlight importance of open data in
to explore the establishment of a national environmental research
B&B platform
• Launched Policy Working Groups to
• Significant increase in interest - grew respond to the major policy consultations
membership to over 850, Twitter over 2,000 such as CAP Review, National Biodiversity
and LinkedIn page to over 500. Strategy, National SDG Strategy
• Rebranded as Natural Capital Ireland (from
Irish Forum on Natural Capital)
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