The big shift: business for biodiversity
Lessons Learned from over 10 years of UEBT
What’s inside
This document is structured as a set of lessons learned on enhancing business contribution to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and regeneration. Each lesson flows from specific experiences in the work of UEBT and its collaboration with companies. Building “from the ground up”, the aim is to provide a practical and tested set of considerations, often missing from the policy context.
Where does UEBT draw its learning from?
UEBT draws the lessons in this document from its work with its members and partners. As of April 2020, more than 50 companies of all sizes across the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors are UEBT members, having committed themselves to integrating the Ethical BioTrade standard across their activities and supply chains.
Additionally, UEBT members prioritize supply chains, where actions are taken to advance more quickly on good practices. At the end of 2018, UEBT members had prioritized 315 supply chains from 52 countries, involving 120 plant species.
Information on the work of UEBT members is gathered through membership and certification assessments, annual reports and monitoring and evaluation.
The big shift: business for biodiversity