Event Description
The economic activities of a company can exacerbate the direct drivers of biodiversity loss, such as land and sea use change, exploitation of natural resources, pollution, and the introduction of invasive alien species. Direct drivers have impacts on species and ecosystems while affecting people who rely on ecosystem services for their livelihood. In addition, the majority of the world’s largest companies have a significant dependency on nature across their direct operations.
Conversations about biodiversity have focused on ecological conservation efforts, habitat restoration, and on-the-ground fieldwork in specific locations. In recent years, biodiversity reporting frameworks that attempt to capture the total financial impact and dependency of individual corporations have begun to emerge. Frameworks will shape corporate disclosure on how issuers impact and rely on biodiversity, illuminating the financial risks related to this dependence, and highlighting steps companies can and should take to mitigate their impact on biodiversity loss. This even will consider the challenges and potential for corporate management of natural capital.
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage or contact Lili Csorba
at [email protected].
Hosted by the Masters of Sustainability Management Program at Columbia University.
