Accelerate, The Business Pact for Climate and Nature
Accelerate: The Business Pact for Climate and Nature is a collective action campaign from Business in the Community Ireland, the movement for sustainable change in business. Its purpose is to inspire and enable businesses to bring about a sustainable, low carbon economy and a more inclusive society where everyone thrives.
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (AIPP) is a framework bringing together different sectors across the island of Ireland to create a landscape where pollinators can survive and thrive. Implemented by the National Biodiversity Data Centre, it provides information and free resources to help, whether you have a business, a farm, a community group, a garden, or a window box.
To date, over 280 businesses in Ireland have signed up to the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (AIPP) and have committed to at least one pollinator-friendly action within the first year of signing up, and plan to carry out two additional actions within the following five years.
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The GAA’s Progress and Pathway to 2030
The report from the Global Accounting Alliance (GAA) examines key trends impacting the accountancy profession, including the increasing emphasis on transparency, reporting, and regulation concerning nature-related issues. It outlines the steps that the GAA and its members will take to further accelerate collective progress towards our nature commitments, in alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
ENCORE
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a tool to help users better understand and visualise the impact of environmental change on the economy. Developed by the Natural Capital Finance Alliance in partnership with UNEP-WCMC and financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the MAVA Foundation, the tool focuses on the goods and services that nature provides to enable economic production. It guides users in understanding how businesses across all sectors of the economy potentially depend and impact on nature, and how these potential dependencies and impacts might represent a business risk.
The ENCORE tool allows users to input basic information about their business sector and activities. The tool then downloads a list of relevant impacts and dependencies.
WWF – Biodiversity Risk Filter
The WWF’s Risk Filter tools - the Water Risk Filter and Biodiversity Risk Filter - enable companies and investors to assess and respond to nature-related risks to strengthen resilience. The WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter is designed to be used as a corporate and portfolio-level screening tool to identify biodiversity risks and prioritise corporate action on biodiversity. It covers broad aspects of biodiversity (e.g., freshwater, marine, forest, grasslands, wetlands) and allows businesses to:
- Understand their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity
- Map out physical biodiversity risks
- Assess biodiversity risks across operations, value chain and investments.
Biodiversity Maps Ireland
Biodiversity Maps, from the National Biodiversity Data Centre, provide an overview of the state of knowledge on the distribution of Ireland's biodiversity.
According to Business in the Community Ireland, there are multiple ways in which businesses can use Biodiversity Maps, such as drawing a polyglot over a selected area e.g., business site, and then downloading a report of plant and animal species recorded within the boundaries of the polyglot. This helps businesses decide what appropriate actions they can take to protect and enhance the habitats for the plant and animal species listed e.g., altering mowing regimes if rare bees are collecting pollen or installing bird feeders.
Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC)
The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) is an international not-for-profit which empowers companies to advance biodiversity, sustainability, employee engagement and community relations goals. Working with businesses on conservation projects for over 30 years, the WHC has developed a large bank of tools, tips and case studies of businesses that have undertaken voluntary projects on their lands to support sustainable ecosystems that surround them.
Business and Biodiversity Charter
In Northern Ireland, Business in the Community has created a Business and Biodiversity Charter as a framework for businesses to engage with biodiversity. The Charter is based around a staged approach, and is applicable to all organisations from micro-businesses to large facilities owned by multi-national companies.
Business for Nature is a global coalition that brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies.
It works with more than 70 international and national partners and a diverse group of businesses from all sectors, sizes and geographies. It encourages companies to commit and act to reverse nature loss, and advocate for greater policy ambition. Its Strategic Advisory Group ensures its work is grounded in real business and act as ambassadors for the coalition.
"Together, we demonstrate credible business leadership on nature and amplify a powerful leading business voice calling for governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss this decade."
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