Synthesis and critical assessment of management tools to mainstream biodiversity in decision-making in the private sector

管理工具的综合和严格评估，以将生物多样性纳入私营部门决策的主流

• 批准号: NE/W007436/1
• 负责人: Pamela Katic
• 金额: $ 5.13万
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FW007436%2F1
• 关键词: Synthesis; critical; assessment; management; tools

Most businesses depend on biodiversity, either directly or through their supply chains. Biodiversity provides critical resources on which businesses depend. In negatively impacting biodiversity, businesses risk losing these essential resources. Financial organisations investing in such businesses may also be exposed to risk if the businesses they invest in negatively impact biodiversity. As a result, it has become more and more important for the private sector to demonstrate strong and improved performance on biodiversity. In recent years, a sudden explosion of tools and approaches has emerged to help businesses measure their performance on biodiversity issues. However, these have developed independently and through a different mix of concerns, with no agreement or efforts to standardise these approaches. This has the potential to weaken their interest by companies, confused by a proliferation of initiatives. More importantly, these tools are being developed separately from government discussions on setting international targets for biodiversity, and it is not clear how they can be used to contribute to achieving these targets.This project addresses these issues by reviewing and comparing existing tools, how they are constructed, how they measure biodiversity performance, how and where they are being used by different businesses and how they contribute to achieving international targets for biodiversity. Through a literature review and interviews of tool developers, the project aims to shed light into how these tools can contribute to biodiversity conservation and where there is need for further research, and then communicate this into key UK and global policy discussions and frameworks. Key products of this project will include: (i) An academic publication comparing the components and characteristics of the tools and how they relate to global frameworks; (ii) A policy brief recommending policymakers ways to ensure these tools can help in meeting biodiversity targets; (iii) A short report and video showing in a map how these tools are being used over key "biodiversity hotspots" in this world, and (iv) a webinar to disseminate results to key stakeholders through ISEAL's Evidensia platform. These products will contribute to current efforts and discussions on how to improve tools and the way they are developed and implemented to achieve real change in biodiversity performance in the private sector.

大多数企业直接或通过其供应链依赖生物多样性。生物多样性提供了企业所依赖的关键资源。在对生物多样性造成负面影响的过程中，企业面临失去这些基本资源的风险。如果投资于此类业务的金融机构所投资的业务对生物多样性产生负面影响，那么它们也可能面临风险。因此，私营部门在生物多样性方面表现出强劲和改善的表现变得越来越重要。近年来，帮助企业衡量其在生物多样性问题上的表现的工具和方法突然出现了爆炸性增长。然而，这些方法是独立发展的，是通过不同的担忧组合而成的，没有达成一致，也没有努力使这些方法标准化。这可能会削弱企业的兴趣，因为企业对大量的创新感到困惑。更重要的是，这些工具的开发与政府关于制定国际生物多样性目标的讨论是分开进行的，目前尚不清楚如何使用它们来促进实现这些目标。本项目通过审查和比较现有工具、它们是如何构建的、它们如何衡量生物多样性的表现、不同企业如何以及在哪里使用它们以及它们如何为实现国际生物多样性目标做出贡献来解决这些问题。通过文献回顾和对工具开发者的采访，该项目旨在阐明这些工具如何为生物多样性保护做出贡献，以及在哪些方面需要进一步研究，然后将其传达到英国和全球的关键政策讨论和框架中。该项目的主要产品将包括：(1)比较这些工具的组成部分和特点以及它们与全球框架的关系的学术出版物；(2)政策简报，向政策制定者建议如何确保这些工具有助于实现生物多样性目标；(3)一份简短的报告和视频，在地图上显示这些工具是如何在世界上主要的“生物多样性热点”上使用的；(4)举办一次网络研讨会，通过印度生物多样性研究所的Evidensia平台向主要利益攸关方传播成果。这些产品将有助于目前关于如何改进工具及其开发和实施方式的努力和讨论，以实现私营部门生物多样性绩效的真正变化。

项目成果

Mainstreaming biodiversity in business decisions: Taking stock of tools and gaps

将生物多样性纳入业务决策主流：盘点工具和差距

• DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109831
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Biological Conservation
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Katic P