Bemari

Bemari

Environmental Services

London, London 1,058 followers

Enabling business to address the triple threat of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss

About us

We are a B Corp certified impact consultancy, helping businesses accelerate the just transition towards more restorative and regenerative practices. Our approach is tailored to suit each of our client’s needs, pace, and priorities from our full suite of sustainability consultancy services, including: • Environmental impact measurement • Impact assessment, using leading sustainability frameworks. • Climate change risk & opportunities assessment • Impact reporting including GRI, CSRD etc. • Sustainable procurement strategy • B Corp certification support • Sustainability training (Carbon Literacy, Sustainability 101, Avoiding Greenwashing etc.) • Facilitation & stakeholder engagement • Implementation support to help you make your strategy a reality! We employ a people-centric approach and focus on building internal capacity to drive change by applying the following core principles: - Collaboration to empower stakeholders. - Integrity choosing what’s right over what’s easy. - Creativity using original ideas to turn roadblocks into opportunities. - Impact focusing on what makes the greatest difference where it matters. - Empathy recognising that everyone has a different perspective and bringing them all along for the journey. Our team works with businesses of all size, across all sectors. Here is some recent feedback from our clients: “Excellent. Bemari has helped to make what is a complex topic digestible by myself and wider stakeholders in the business.” “Bemari's methodologies and insightful workshop content was very helpful in finding the right balance in understanding sustainability concept and practices in a undeveloped infrastructure.” Are you ready to become a Changemaker? Working with Bemari, an experienced environmental consultancy, can accelerate your progress and future-proof your business. Get in touch to see how we can help you.

Industry
Environmental Services
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
London, London
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2016
Specialties
sustainability, ESG, international development, sustainable procurement, waste reduction, risk management, circularity, net zero, nature-positive, biodiversity, impact, just transition, b corp, circular business models, TCFD, TNFD, CSRD, Impact reporting, Environmental impact assessment, environmental management, Impact measurement, impact business models, GRI, regenerative business, and materials management

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    Some of #COP16 takeaways from our Senior Consultant Elspeth Alexander.

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    Nature Positive | Double Materiality | Political Ecology | Water Policy & Research | Post-growth

    I spent the back end of last week hanging around the ocean talks at #COP16 my main business takeaways below… 🪸 There’s only one ocean!🪸 Sounds basic, but many sessions have hammered home that the ocean is a global, interconnected system. Businesses must remember that ALL localised marine impacts are contributing to the abysmal state of our ocean. 🔵 E.g. 80% of oceanic plastic pollution starts as land-based localised pollution, then is transported via rivers to the sea. Ocean currents then transport this pollution around the globe. 🪸 Healthy oceans are more profitable than distressed oceans🪸 Planet Tracker's research on commercial tuna fishing found: 🔵 Commercial fisheries had the highest profits when tuna were fished in the FAO areas with the most stable tuna populations. This was due to efficiencies in operational costs. More fish 🟰  less time required catching fish. 🔵By 2050, projected climate change could reduce commercial tuna catch in Indonesian waters by <30% 😬 😬 This would near wipe out the industry’s profits. 🪸 Stronger ocean governance is critical for business🪸 All businesses rely on the marine environment and thus the current systemic mismanagement of our ocean is business risk. Yet many non-seafood businesses still struggle to understand their dependencies (and impacts). Here are some examples: 🔵90+% of internationally, traded goods are transported via shipping 🔵99% of all intercontinental internet traffic goes through submarine cables 🔵36% of the global population rely on fish for food security. If you work with businesses in China or Japan there is no doubt workers in your supply chain depend on fish to survive. If you want to learn more about how businesses impact marine resources download Bemari's free Day Zero toolkit (link in comments)

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    Yesterday was Ocean Day at #COP16 🌊 While the world is waking up to the biodiversity crisis, marine ecosystems often receive far less attention. 🐋 🦐 Many businesses struggle to grasp their impacts on oceans and marine life, but the truth is their actions have significant consequences. Our Marine Ecosystems Toolkit, crafted by water and marine resources experts, offers practical, easy-to-understand advice to help your business identify and mitigate those impacts. Explore the risks, rewards, and the pressing reasons why protecting marine biodiversity is crucial — now more than ever. ✨ Why not take your first step toward marine stewardship and download the Marine Ecosystems Toolkit? Find it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dvzdky8d

    Bemari's Day Zero – Business & Marine Resources Toolkit

    Bemari's Day Zero – Business & Marine Resources Toolkit

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    For the first time in over a century, Chinook salmon have returned to Oregon's Klamath Basin, following the removal of four hydroelectric dams. This $500M project marks a significant win for conservationists and the Klamath tribal communities who have long fought to restore the river’s natural flow. As Roberta Frost of the Klamath Tribal Council said: “The salmon are like our tribal people. They know where home is and returned as soon as they were able.” 🐟 A powerful reminder of the resilience of nature!

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    We need urgent action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss (by 2030). All businesses depend on nature, have a footprint and can take actions to contribute to this goal. Wonder what your business can do? Here are a few simple steps: ✅Consider which Global Biodiversity Targets for Nature your business can meaningfully contribute to. Targets 8 and 15 (at least) apply to all businesses and the rest may apply in different combinations depending on the nature of the business. https://lnkd.in/dXfaFXs7 ✅Take time to go through these and understand what they mean - emerging reporting frameworks will be based on these, many are not even new. Start preparing now. ✅ Commence the screening for impacts and dependencies on nature - Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) guidance and toolkit will guide you Unsure how to work through this? Get in touch with us - we can help guide you through the process. There is no business on a dead planet. #COP16 #naturepositive

    2030 Targets (with Guidance Notes)

    2030 Targets (with Guidance Notes)

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    It's day three of #COP16. Can't wait for our team's live updates from Colombia? Why not dive into our Day Zero Nature toolkit? 🌱 If one thing's clear from the conference so far, it's that every business on the planet relies on nature. The biodiversity crisis clock is ticking. ⏰ Crafted by experts to help you create change, our Day Zero Nature toolkit is designed to provide digestible and practical advice on how to get started on your business' biodiversity journey. Understand the risks, the rewards, and the reason why taking action has never been more urgent. Your first step: download the Day Zero toolkit here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d7JFS63r

    Bemari's Day Zero – Business & Nature Toolkit

    Bemari's Day Zero – Business & Nature Toolkit

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    What is your business doing to be ecocide legislation ready? https://lnkd.in/dPh_Nwtf Stop Ecocide International

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    Nature Positive | Double Materiality | Political Ecology | Water Policy & Research | Post-growth

    Currently at #COP16 and the Day 1 & 2 already lots to think about, below are my highlights… 🌎 What’s your business’ ecocide legislation readiness? 🌎 The above question was posed in the session led by Stop Ecocide International. Also discussed was the need to view the above like a health & safety law NOT some sort of ‘woke’, ‘leftist’ environmental law…  “There is no business on a dead Earth” With a 73% decline in biodiversity in the last 50 years, it increasingly feels more radical NOT to have a law preventing ecocide, than continuing with the current radical act of destroying the natural system in which all business depends on. There is growing (inter)national support for the law, with draft wording being presented to the International Criminal Court this year. 🌏 What’s the ‘nature positive’ business’ case for biodiversity credits? 🌏 I’m still not convinced businesses understand the role of biodiversity credits: (at least in my view) they’re not a mechanism for offsetting your business’ nature impacts or enabling business as usual. A theme running through the talks has been that business’ need to focus on outcomes: halting and reversing their contributions to biodiversity loss across their value chain. In my view this is where businesses should focus their energy and then if they want to then use a biodiversity credits on top of their impact reduction strategy that’s a different use case. 🌍 How can the business community support an ecologically just energy transition? 🌍 Nickel is now the #1 driver of deforestation in Indonesia - far ahead of palm oil. Deep sea mining is being proposed in Norway which, if permitted and proliferated, has the potential to reduce the ocean’s capacity to regulate climate change.  What’s driving these destructive mining practices? Primarily critical minerals to power the two prongs of 4th industrial revolution: rapid decarbonisation and digitalisation. Climate change is now the #1 driver of biodiversity loss - there is no denying the need for an energy transition however more needs to be done - at pace - to protect critical ecosystems from the mining required for renewables. We need to remember that renewable energy isn’t without serious environmental costs and thus we still need to conserve energy usage, even when our value chains are powered by renewables. What can businesses do to reduce their contribution?  💎 Support ecologically (& socially) defined no mining zones.  💎 Support responsible mining practices which includes accepting that these minerals may cost more.  💎Reduce your consumption of energy across your supply chain.  💎Reduce your consumption for digital products across your supply chain, as this further reduces pressures on critical mineral supply chains. Thank you to Stop Ecocide International & Olivia Lazard for these great sessions

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    Day 1 updates https://lnkd.in/duG9crhk

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    Nature positive l Climate & Nature risks l Regenerative for Sustainability

    Day 1 #cop16. Opening messages and some takes ways 🌍Building capacity and understanding of nature impacts and dependencies is critical across all business levels, and C Suite in particular - 85% companies are at risk due to nature risks and dependencies - only 2 % of companies have capacity and skills at the c suite level 🍀Nature positive by 2030 is an ambitious and important goal that governments and private sector needs to get behind. - Majority of nature impacts (up to 95%) are in supply chains of organisations - this is a business critical area to address, taking action on nature is not about “saving the planet” - No individual business can be nature positive - it is a state of nature that the business should be contributing to, and not a label or goal one organisation can achieve. Refer to Nature Positive Initiative for definitions 📍Understanding where the impacts and dependencies are across the value chain is the first and crucial step - ENCORE tool is used by governments and businesses alike to do this. https://lnkd.in/eNrienJp ⚖️There are always trade offs when it comes to nature and business. Reduction of consumption of materials, energy, resources is crucial - be that renewable energy, green materials or digital use. Everything still has an impact - and often as we substitute one thing for another, the impacts shift (eg paperless to digital shifts pressure from trees to water and deforestation for mining). 🤝International collaboration and legislation plays a huge role in realigning the incentives and levelling the baseline. Businesses have global supply chains and impacts - harmonisation is critical in ensuring that the impacts do not just shift to where the laws are more relaxed. 💸The role of biodiversity credits on the nature positive journey is still to be refined. Some interesting initiatives in Colombia (Terrasos) that work on the premise of applying credits within the same watershed and same habitats - as opposed to for example, a tech company with supply chains (ie nature impacts) in China buying biodiversity credits restoring forests in the U.K. 1 ha of habitats in both of those locations are completely different! Biodiversity credits as a nature financing mechanism is a really important part of the solution but only when it is applied within the mitigation hierarchy. 📚Negotiations on the draft text have began - it won’t be easy! Look forward to day 2!

    ENCORE

    ENCORE

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