For Business

The TEEB for Business report is now available 

Business and enterprise have a huge role to play in how we manage, safeguard and invest in our natural capital. This report is aimed squarely at this sector and will provide practical guidance on the issues and the opportunities created by the inclusion in mainstream business practices of ecosystem- and biodiversity-related considerations. This report is for a wide array of enterprises, including those with direct impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, such as mining, oil and gas and infrastructure; for those businesses that depend on healthy ecosystems and biodiversity for production, such as agriculture and fisheries; for industry sectors that finance and undergird economic activity and growth, like banks and asset managers, as well as insurance and business services; and for businesses that are selling ecosystem services or biodiversity-related products such as eco-tourism, eco-agriculture and bio-carbon.

Please click here for quotes of "Support for TEEB for Business."

The TEEB for Business report will be published by Earthscan in 2011. If you would like to submit any additional information or have comments that you would like to be considered for that publication, please  Click here to go to the online comment form or download and  complete the following form and email it to us at teeb4biz@ufz.de by 6 September 2010.

To see a selection of case studies and reference materials collected in support of the development of the TEEB for Business report please see the Earthmind webpage.

To download the report click on the following links:

 TEEB for Business Executive Summary

Chapter 1: Business, biodiversity and ecosystem services

Chapter 2: Business impacts and dependence on biodiversity and ecosystem services       Annex

Chapter 3: Measuring and reporting biodiversity and ecosystem impacts and dependence

Chapter 4: Scaling down biodiversity and ecosystem risks to business

Chapter 5: Increasing biodiversity business opportunities

Chapter 6: Business, biodiversity and sustainable development

Chapter 7: A recipe for biodiversity and business growth.  Annex
                    (Chapter 7 will be uploaded following outcomes of the
                     First Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium)