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As part of our long-lasting relationship with UEBT, I was interviewed for their new report: "Deep Dive on #Beauty and #Biodiversity" It includes priorities for the beauty sector including to: --> Set targets to conserve and restore biodiversity in sourcing areas and operations Companies need to set such targets not only considering indicators and targets linked to drivers of #biodiversityloss but also #biodiversityconservation and #biodiversityrestoration as well as #sustainableuse. Companies can positively impact the landscapes and species intrinsically linked to their products, #supplychains and operations. Download the new report here: https://lnkd.in/gdEWv2yA #ethicalsourcing #generationrestoration #biodiversityloss #regenerative

🌲 🌳 🌴 Today, on the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, we celebrate the important role of #forests for our own wellbeing and the crucial role they play for our ecosystems. Each year, this day sheds light on different facets of forests and their vital contribution to sustainable development. This year’s theme, "Forests and Innovation,” emphasises how forests inspire innovative solutions for a better future. Forests are not only home to millions of people worldwide but also provide essential resources like food, fuel, and livelihoods for billions. Moreover, they offer vital services such as climate regulation, clean air and water, and support our mental and physical well-being. #Indigenous communities, with their deep-rooted connection to forests, play a crucial role in their conservation. By leveraging traditional knowledge and sustainable practices, they protect biodiversity, store carbon, and prevent desertification. It's noteworthy that forests within Indigenous territories exhibit lower rates of deforestation and degradation. The #BIOTRAILS project showcases the significance of forests to Indigenous people through a case study on #handicrafts in the Brazilian Amazon. Handicraft production, based on renewable forest materials, not only sustains livelihoods but also preserves cultural heritage and empowers women. While much progress has been made, there's still work to be done to fully recognise Indigenous contributions and address social inequalities. Strengthening producer cooperatives and raising consumer awareness about the environmental and social impacts of forest products are crucial steps forward. Forests are integral to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, contributing to poverty alleviation, gender equality, and responsible consumption and production. By supporting Indigenous artisans and promoting fair trade, we can ensure a sustainable future for forests and communities worldwide. Let's celebrate forests today and every day by working together to conserve and sustainably manage them. Learn more in the Insight article "Forest Biodiversity: Celebrating indigenous knowledge and innovation" from Johannes Stahl: https://lnkd.in/gtXgpzvJ #IndigenousKnowledge #BIOTRAILS #ForestDay #GenerationRestoration Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT eBOS Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche White Research Resilient Cities Network Harokopio University of Athens Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi ETH Zürich DRAXIS Environmental S.A. adelphi

🌿🌍 Breaking News in the World of Sustainability: A New Era for Biodiversity Credits! 🌍🌿 🍀 For years, the concept of #biodiversity credits remained a dream, and today, we are thrilled to witness its realization with a groundbreaking development right here in 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇪 and we are proud to be part of it! 🍀 ☕ In an exclusive global partnership, Specialty #coffee group, Coffeeangel, together with clean-tech company, BIONUA, have sealed a landmark deal with the esteemed Dunsany Estate in Co. Meath. ☕ This historic agreement signifies a significant commitment from Coffeeangel, committing 5% of its profits over the next five years to purchase biodiversity credits. This move is not just a first in Ireland but only the second of its kind across Europe! In this pioneering collaboration, the first year alone will witness the removal of a minimum of 80 tons of #CO2 from the atmosphere at the breathtaking Dunsany Nature Reserve. 🌳☁️ BIONUA's used CarbonSpaceTech 's cutting-edge technology, utilizing #satellite imaging and ground-based sensors, ensuring real-time monitoring of #nature Lord Dunsany himself shares his pride in this initiative, highlighting the rapid increase in biodiversity and the return of species to the land. 🐦🌱 And what about you? How would you feel knowing that the coffee you drink contributes to biodiversity? ☕️🌿 Let's applaud this historic collaboration, a shining example of a 100% Irish innovation and environmental stewardship! 🇮🇪💚 https://lnkd.in/e7ZCek8E #carboncredits #ireland #Sustainability #IrelandGreenNation #ClimateAction #CoffeeLovers #CarbonNeutral #rewilding #biodiversité #neutralitecarbone #RSE #ESG

Discover the findings from the UEBT Deep Dive on #Beauty and #Biodiversity including five key priorities including: --> bring #equity and #humanrights aspects into all all biodiversity measures --> include biodiversity in #lifecycleassessments and other tools to assess impact Read all the key priorities for the beauty sector, compiled from expert interviews and a survey of some 70 leaders in the industry, plus learnings from UEBT experts' work over almost two decades with the sector. Download the new report here: https://lnkd.in/gGYZbexM #ethicalsourcing #generationrestoration #biodiversityloss #regenerative

🌍 🐞 The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) describes biodiversity as “the diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. These three levels work together to create life on Earth in all its complexity.”  🌱 At ProFound, we see regenerative agriculture and the implementation, management, and creation of sustainable practices as the path forward in agriculture that can also stop biodiversity loss and help nature recover. 🌳 ♨ 👩🌾 One of the projects that comes to mind while commemorating the International Day for Biodiversity is the Tea Garden project we worked with in Sri Lanka some while ago. On that occasion, together with Both ENDS and Rainforest Rescue, we supported a private tea estate and a tea cooperative to produce tea in a forest garden system! Such an exciting project. 🙌 “Together with ProFound, we transformed a tea plantation into a forest garden production (...) providing food and income to communities, improving soils and the quality of the tea.” Shared Ranil Senanayake (Rainforest Rescue International) after the culmination of the project. 🐝 🐛 Over the past thirty years, we’ve worked with farmers, agri-entrepreneurs, non-government organizations, and actors in the value chain who share our beliefs. We are confident that, if action is taken, biodiversity loss can decrease. This is partly the inspiration behind the soon-to-be movement, ReGen55!, which we are developing in partnership with AGREA Agricultural Systems . #ThisIsProFound #AdvisersInDevelopment #ReGen55! #BiodiversityDay #BePartOfThePlan #SustainableFuture #UnEnviromentProgramme #BiodiversityPlan  

International Day for Biological Diversity - Digital Industries takes care of our tiniest “employees” with huge value creation Did you know that the worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators – bees mainly – has been estimated to be in the order of hundreds of billions of Euro each year? Our tinies employees with huge value creation celebrate their birthday today – on the International Day for Biological Diversity. We seize this opportunity to highlight our ongoing contribution to preserving and enhancing biological diversity (also referred to as biodiversity) globally. As a global leader in environmental protection, we at DI go beyond legal requirements related to protecting and fostering biodiversity. For this, we assess all our manufacturing sites’ biodiversity impacts and evaluate further potential actions. The spectrum of such actions ranges from universally applicable measures such as setting up bee hotels to more tailored ones such as greening building roof tops. You have an idea of how your site can contribute to enhancing biodiversity? Let us know…

🍵 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘆: 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗽 🌍 As the world comes together to celebrate World Tea Day, we at iPAGE not only recognize tea as a cherished beverage but also celebrate its role as a vital cash crop with significant environmental benefits. Tea cultivation, when done sustainably, can contribute to environmental conservation. It helps in maintaining biodiversity, soil stabilization, and carbon sequestration. Tea gardens are often rich in ecological diversity, supporting various plant and animal species. This World Tea Day, let us acknowledge and appreciate the dual role of tea – as an economic lifeline and an environmental steward. Let's commit to choices that support ethical, sustainable tea farming, ensuring that every cup we enjoy contributes to a greener, more sustainable world. 🌱 #worldteaday #ecofriendlytea #sustainableagriculture #ipage

Reflecting back on our first UK SCI Nature & Biodiversity Forum in June, key takeaways on challenges and opportunities for collective action included: 🌍 There is no 'one size fits all' approach to applying voluntary frameworks. Such frameworks are complex to apply in their entirety, but provide a consistent direction of travel for corporate action on nature. 🌍 Measuring nature impact is a considerable challenge, given the complexity of developing consistent metrics for a vast array of factors. But service providers are making significant progress in this area. 🌍 There is an opportunity - and need - for stronger cross-sector collaboration on nature and biodiversity. Lesson-sharing and peer support can help to accelerate action. Efeca provides a constructive space for industry collaboration on #nature and #biodiversity through the UK SCI, and dedicated one-two-one support - reach out to a member of our team if you would like to learn more. Jonathan Gorman Conal Judd-English Joe Paul https://lnkd.in/es2rA-gX

🌍 Join us for our online webinar: 'Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity: Unleashing the Power of GBF Targets 15 and 16', an official side event of the 6th UN Environment Assembly (#UNEA6)! Shedding light on the crucial shift towards sustainable consumption to combat biodiversity loss, this event is organised by Consumers International in collaboration with the Consumer Information for Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme of the One Planet network, Forest Stewardship Council, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development BioTrade Initiative. Seeking to inspire action and drive change, our event aims to showcase the transformative potential of the Global Biodiversity Framework, with targets 15 and 16 at the forefront, urging businesses to assess, disclose, and reduce biodiversity-related risks and enabling sustainable consumption choices to curb waste and overconsumption. Together, we seek to: 🌱 Raise awareness of consumption's impact on biodiversity. 🌱 Present solutions to mitigate human activities' impact on biodiversity. 🌱 Discuss recommendations for effective implementation of GBF Targets 15 and 16. Schedule: 📅 Date: February 9, 2024 🕡 Time: 18:30 – 19:45 hrs EAT Speakers: 🎤 Martina Fleckenstein, WWF Global Policy Director 🎤 Peter Andrews, Consumers International 🎤 Bettina Hedden-Dunkhorst, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) 🎤 Harrison Ochieng Kojwang, Forest Stewardship Council International 🎤 Dr. Taye Teferi, TRAFFIC 🎤 Jan Christian Polania Giese, adelphi We hope to see you on the 27th February, find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/dA4-TWxe #SustainableConsumption #Biodiversity #UNEA6 #GBFTargets #ConsumerRights #Sustainability

FAIR TRADE Latest EcoMeme goes live Friday 24th May. Westie ain't cheap! Protecting and restoring nature is expensive and requires long term investment and commitment in order to achieve successful results.   In order to deliver the best results for nature a biodiversity credit market needs to factor in high prices for high integrity credits that deliver positive outcomes for nature with high degrees of certainty. None of this is cheap. Payment for successful biodiversity protection and restoration includes consideration for pre-action planning, field implementation, and post-action monitoring and evaluation. In addition, when a positive biodiversity outcome is encapsulated as a credit and delivered to market there are additional expenses for the verification and governance requirements associated with this.   The good news is that labour is a large component of the required cost base (https://lnkd.in/gGvueSmQ) so if done correctly there are opportunities for biodiversity credit markets to deliver positive outcomes for nature through meaningful pay for meaningful work undertaken by Traditional Owners and people in local communities.   Our aim is to build the world's best biodiversity credit market, one that recognises the true value of nature, results in an equitable distribution of benefits and empowers local communities along the way! Followers of NovelEco we've got you covered for this airdrop 😉 - thanks all for your support 🙏 Follow the NovelEco account before Friday 24th May to be included. #naturepositive #naturalfutures #ecosystemrestoration #biodiversity #web3 #30x30 💚 🌳