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Lessons learnt - the
use of the GBS to
assess raw material
supply-chains and
listed equities
Joshua Berger, Global
Biodiversity Score Project
Manager
COP 14 14-15 November 2018,
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – Corporate
biodiversity footprint side event
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❑ 2018-2020: an opportunity to stop the decline of
biodiversity
❑Strong political agenda
❑Demand from finance
❑Post 2020 quantitative targets at COP15?
❑ Need to quantify the impact of businesses and
financial assets
❑Assess their contribution to achieving global targets
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The need for tools to assess the footprint of
economic activities
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A metric to meet that need: the Mean Species
Abundance
Ecosyste
m1:
Fore
st
Ecosyste
m2:
gra
ssla
nd
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The GBS: a tool to meet the corporate/portfolio
assessment needs by linking activities,
pressures and impacts
Refined
assessment
Default
assessment
Turnover by
industry
and country
Land use changes
by type and location;
GHG emissions by
scope
Comprehensive
ecological
surveys
Purchases by
industry and country
or by commodity /
service
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Scopes are very important concepts to describe
the impacts across the value chain
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❑ Ferulic acid is produced from co-products of rice
❑ Dynamic (here land use changes) and static (ecological
opportunity cost) impacts assessed
Case study – comparison of the impact of
sourcing ferulic acid from different countries
As a reference,ecoinvent transformation (China)= 4141 m²
Equivalent to 3806 MSAm²
with MSA% Agri(China)=8,1%
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Case study – comparison of the average impact
per ton of a company’s sourcing vs the world
average
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Case study – assessing the footprint of 5
businesses in a listed equity portfolio (1/2)
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Raw material
production
Raw and
secondary
material
processing
Manufacturing Retail Waste and
wastewater
management
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Energy Transport Construction Financial
services
Non-financial
services and
other activities
Case study – assessing the footprint of 5
businesses in a listed equity portfolio (2/2)
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The GBS is supported by about 20 non-FI…
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Value chain workstream
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… and 10 FI allowing road-testing and
adjustments to take into account data availability
and industry specificities
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Finance
workstream
Partners
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❑ Dividing MSA loss by 10 is possible by reducingdeforestation,
closing the yield gap, moving to healthydiets and moderately
mitigating climate change
The need for the integration of global targets into
the political agenda
Source: PBL, Roads from Rio: pathways to achieve global
sustainability goals by 2050 (2012)
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Antoine Cadi
Directeur Recherche et Innovation
Mail:
[email protected]
Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 16
Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 63 18 00
Joshua Berger
Chef de projet B4B+
Mail:
[email protected]
Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 41
Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 86 16 81
