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Countdown 2010:
Take action to save biodiversity!
András Krolopp
Deputy Head
Countdown 2010 Secretariat
[email protected]
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Biodiversity is in decline
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The 2010 Biodiversity Target
“that biodiversity decline should be halted with
the aim of reaching this objective by 2010“
Presidency Conclusions of the
EU Summit in Göteborg, 2001
“to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of
the current rate of biodiversity loss at the
global, regional and national levels as a
contribution to poverty alleviation and to the
benefit of all life on earth”
Decision VI/26 CBD Strategic Plan 2002
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What is Countdown 2010?
A powerful network of active partners
working together to reach the 2010 biodiversity target
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Biodiversity and Business
Biodiversity refers to “the variability among living organisms from all
sources … and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this
includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems”
(Convention on Biological Diversity, Article 2).
Ecosystems
Businesses depend on ecosystem services, notably for
regenerative and waste assimilation capacities
Species
Business activities impact – both positively and negatively
– a vast array of species. Some sectors depend directly on
wild plants and animals for their production processes
Genes
The private sector plays a dominant role in the commercial
use of genetic resources and their derivatives
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment:
Opportunities and Challenges for Business and
Industry
1. Ecosystem services that are freely available today will
cease to be available or become more costly
2. Loss of ecosystem services will affect conditions in
which businesses operate:
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customer preferences
shareholder expectations
regulatory regimes
availability of finance and insurance
3. New business opportunities will emerge as demand
grows for more efficient or different ways to use
ecosystem services, mitigate impacts or track or trade
services
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C2010 Approach to Private Sector
• Corporate Engagement is Key to Transforming Markets
and Promoting Sector Shifts to Sustainability
• No such thing as Zero Risk. Aim to maximize
opportunities and manage risk
• Creative, Proactive engagement offers a powerful means
for achieving 2010 target
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Lisbon Conference on Business and Biodiversity
Workshop A
Biodiversity-related
responsibility schemes
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Corporate social
responsibility
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Strategic environmental
assessment
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Social and environmental
accreditation and labelling
schemes
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Socially responsible
investment
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Corporate philanthropy
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Environmental
Management and Audit
Scheme
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Workshop B
Business-related
biodiversity indicators
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Corporate biodiversity
assessments
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Industry-wide
biodiversity
assessments
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Landscape-level
biodiversity indicators
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Accountability and
reporting
Workshop C
Markets for biodiversity
goods and services
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Biodiversity-friendly
agriculture
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Biodiversity-friendly
forestry and nontimber forest products
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Biodiversity-friendly
fisheries and
aquaculture
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Biodiversity-friendly
carbon
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Biodiversity-friendly
watershed services
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Biodiversity offsets
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Biodiversity
management services
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Biodiversity-friendly
tourism and
recreational hunting
and fishing
Workshop D
Business and biodiversity
partnerships
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BEBOP
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FSC
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MSC
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IFOAM
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MAC
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MMSD (Luke Danielson)
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ECNC, Banking Initiative
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Katoomba Group
(Michael Jenkins)
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Earthwatch Institute
(Europe)’s Corporate
Environmental
Responsibility Group
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WWF’s business and
industry programmes in
Europe
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FFI’s business
partnerships
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The Message from Lisbon
A Message from Lisbon was released calling
on business, governments, the EU and
NGOs to:
• Continue raising awareness of the strong
competitive advantage companies can gain
from conserving biodiversity;
• Promote the use of market, corporate
responsibility and regulatory schemes;
• Support business with operational tools for
biodiversity conservation and measuring their
performance in meaningful ways, especially in
small and medium sized companies; and
• Encourage new incentives to develop and
strengthen partnerships between companies,
governments at all levels, NGOs and
academia.
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The Business Case is changing
Expectations are rising
• Regulation and policy intervention growing
• Liability and investment risk reviews
• Many constituencies expect business to improve
performance in biodiversity issue management
Trust is also growing
• Business/NGO partnerships are more
common and mature
• Capacity and policy in business is
developing rapidly
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Can we lean back and relax?
• ECO-tax
• Efficiency
• Environmental investment
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Waste water Treatment and Sustainable Development
On site benefit
Decreasing ground water pollution
End of life cycle
Construction phase
Waste
Operation phase
Reversible and irreversible
impact of construction
Energy and
material need
Energy use and emission
of construction work
(sewage system and plant)
Natural resources need
Consumer pays
Energy
Mining and processing
construction materials
Profit
Operation cost
Environmental
pressures
Investment cost
Taxes
Sludge
Into the soil
Composting
Burning
Transport and energy
Dangerous substances
Energy emission
State revenues
Growth
emission
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Pay attention!!!
“Sustainable” tourism implementation
• Ecological footprint…
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Carbon
Water
Waste
Light
Carrying capacity
Money for “development”
Afforestation projects under Clean
Development Mechanism (Kyoto)
• Buying credits through plantation
– Biodiversity
– Invasive and alien
– Landscape
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