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Biodiversity footprinting metrics

Common Ground paper EIB, Brussel, 17 September 2018

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▪ Contacts through the EU B@B and initiative on Platform for

Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) in the Netherlands

▪ March 2018: launch of the informal working group

▪ Objective: establish a solid basis (common ground) for a

biodiversity footprinting methodology for financials in

2018

▪ Relevant for non-financial institutions (and CDC Biodiversité

works with about 20 non-FI through the B4B+ Club, with an

adapted approach)

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History of the partnership

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1. CBD targets or national assessment

2. Portfolio / corporate assessment

3. Supply chain comparison

4. Product assessment

5. Project assessment

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Uses of biodiversity footprint assessments



Requirements

▪ Transparent & consensual

▪ Understandable

▪ Responsive to changes

▪ Cover the most important pressures on

biodiversity

▪ Quantitative link between pressures and

impacts

▪ Complementary and compatible with local

indicators

▪ Relevance

▪ Rigor

▪ Consistency

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Points of departure

Desired characteristics

▪ Focused on biodiversity and not just

ecosystem services (common and

charismatic species)

▪ Cross-sectoral

▪ Global

▪ Covering the entire value chain

▪ Practicability


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Our approach – Methodological steps



▪ In line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach

▪The attribution of the impacts must be consistent

with the accounting choices of the entity assessed in

terms of what it controls:

▪ Financial control (>50%)

▪ Operational control

▪ Share of the assets owned (pro rata)

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Step 1 - Attribution to a portfolio or a holding



Step 1 – Impacts in the value chain: scopes

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Year n

Scope 0Scope 3

(variations)

Scope 1

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▪ To avoid, reduce and offset impacts:

▪ Additional measures and safeguards are needed

▪ Complementary indicators can provide guidance

▪ For instance, for location-specific characteristics like

“Proximity of HCVA’s/protected areas” or “Presence

of endangered or threatened species”:

▪ Company has a Biodiversity Management Plan in

place (e.g. area registered as a VCA)

▪ Indicators: field ecological monitoring, Red List-

based indicator

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▪End of 2018: publication of a short paper on our common approach

▪27-29 November 2018: BBOP and EU B@B annual meetings, building

roadmaps to achieve net positive impact

▪November 2018: side-events at CBD COP14

▪ Use of biodiversity footprints in strategic business decisions and

investments

▪ Enabling environments for biodiversity footprints to facilitate a biodiversity

net gain future

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Toward common ground on indicators and roadmaps



ACTIAM Pilot on biodiversity footprinting: trase


Biodiversity footprintingBrussel, 17 September 2018

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