U.K.-based Earthwatch Institute has published a helpful five-step
business guide for understanding and integrating biodiversity into
environmental management systems (EMS). The free 28-page guide provides the
business case for protecting biodiversity and offers a five-step process:
* understanding business operations and setting priorities;
* developing a matrix of potential impacts on habitats and species;
* prioritizing the most critical impacts;
* determining how an EMS can address these issues;
* integrating the action plan into business processes.
Why should business care about biodiversity? The guide points out that many
companies depend on biological resources and that biodiversity “services”
companies in ways that cannot be replaced, such as flood control and pest
management. Moreover, it says, “part of your supply chain may affect
biodiversity directly or indirectly.”
info@uk.earthwatch.org
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FROM Green Business Letter
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