Building Partnerships

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Building Partnerships Linking Business to
Biodiversity Shuli Alony Business and
Biodiversity Officer shulamit.alony_at_iucn.org
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Past Achievements

• 60 Businesses joined Countdown 2010
• Message from Lisbon (Nov 2007) adopted at EU
  level and input to global CBD process
• High profile of Countdown 2010 business
  activities during CBD CoP9
• IUCN organises 1st Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on
  the post 2010 target during WCC
• A number of successful project proposals

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Priorities for Engagement

• Advance the business case for biodiversity (TEEB,
  BB handbook and guidelines)
• Expand business participation within Countdown
  2010 initiative
• Engage through European Business Associations
• SME and MNC through local and regional
  biodiversity forums
• Establish national business and biodiversity
  platforms in collaboration with MoE and Countdown
  2010 partners
• Establish 2010 Challengers At least 10 companies
  from different sectors committed to no net loss
  and BBOP refined by 2010
• Collaborate and influence CBD Global Business and
  Biodiversity Leadership Declaration
• Ensure implementation of the Message from Lisbon
• Establish EU wide clearing house on Business and
  Biodiversity
• Keep policy pressure on EP, EC and MS

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Our Approach

• Use EC Biodiversity Communication as a roadmap to
  2010 build on the success of the Lisbon
  Conference
• Contribute and support on-going global actions
  and ensure full involvement of Countdown 2010
  partners
• Apply IUCNs private sector guidelines and due
  diligence procedure and further develop criteria
  for partnership
• Contribute towards halting biodiversity decline
  in a quantifiable way
• Design time-bound partnerships with concrete
  commitments
• Recognize the importance of business
  good-practice to reduce the rate of biodiversity
  loss and the value of biodiversity for
  sustainable entrepreneurial activity

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An Example The Swiss project

• Identifying Swiss companies and assist them in
  mainstreaming biodiversity into their business
  operations.
• Developing a frame of principles that can be
  applied by any Swiss company and would integrate
  them in larger network of companies working on
  business and biodiversity.
• Developing background material on business and
  biodiversity will be developed in collaboration
  with the companies and other stakeholders
• Launching a consultation process by working with
  a selected number of Swiss companies to sign the
  Countdown 2010 Declaration and become part of a
  larger global and Pan-European network on
  business and biodiversity which will build on the
  outcomes of the Lisbon Conference.
• Outreach and linking the initiative to relevant
  processes.
• Profile Countdown 2010 Business Commitments at
  CBD COP9 and within the framework of PEBLDS. This
  activity would not only initiate but sustain a
  process within Switzerland on business and
  biodiversity and connecting this to the larger
  Pan-European context.