Biodiversity is your business

Discover how you incorporate biodiversity into the heart of your business. There is a wealth of information on the internet but we have selected some key resources which could help you to embed biodiversity into your business processes.

• Best Value and Biodiversity in Scotland  : A Handbook of Good Practice for Public Bodies (2004): useful guidance on dealing with best value and biodiversity.
• Business and Biodiversity Booklet    (North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership): an introduction to taking action to conserve and enhance environmental performance.
• Engaging Business With Biodiversity    - Guidelines For Local Biodiversity Partnerships [Earthwatch Institute (Europe)]: This web-based publication presents the reasons for LBPs to engage with businesses, how to go about it and the major challenges encountered by Local Biodiversity Partnerships when working with businesses. The set of Tools (available to download) complement the guidelines and have been developed for LBPs to use to work more closely with businesses. These tools are intended to be downloaded, customised and used as guidance only.
• Is biodiversity a material risk for companies?    [Earthwatch Institute (Europe)]: Earthwatch, in conjunction with F&C Asset Management and funded by DFID, has undertaken pioneering research into the risks that biodiversity may present to business value.
• Measuring biodiversity performance  : As biodiversity is a relatively new area of environmental engagement, this leaflet explains the approach which Business in the Environment, Earthwatch and English Nature take to measuring biodiversity performance.
• Business and Biodiversity - The Handbook for Corporate Action  {Earthwatch Institute (Europe)}