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

大多数企业直接或通过其供应链依赖于生物多样性。生物多样性是企业赖以生存的重要资源。在对生物多样性产生负面影响的同时，企业面临着失去这些重要资源的风险。如果金融机构投资的企业对生物多样性产生负面影响，则投资于此类企业的金融机构也可能面临风险。因此，私营部门在生物多样性方面表现出强有力和更好的业绩变得越来越重要。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激增。然而，这些都是独立发展的，并通过不同的关注组合，没有达成协议或努力推广这些方法。这有可能削弱企业对他们的兴趣，因为企业对各种举措感到困惑。更重要的是，这些工具的开发与政府关于制定生物多样性国际目标的讨论是分开的，目前还不清楚如何利用这些工具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绩效、不同的企业如何和在何处使用它们，以及它们如何为实现生物多样性的国际目标作出贡献。通过对工具开发人员的文献回顾和访谈，该项目旨在阐明这些工具如何有助于生物多样性保护以及需要进一步研究的地方，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：㈠一份学术出版物，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; ㈡一份政策简报，就政策制定者如何确保这些工具有助于实现生物多样性目标提出建议;（三）一份简短的报告和视频，在地图上显示这些工具如何在世界上主要的“生物多样性热点”使用，以及（iv）通过ISEAL的Evidensia平台向主要利益相关者传播结果的网络研讨会。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业绩的真实的变化。

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.