The business community can and wants to play an important role in efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. This was one of the things Ecogain had the opportunity to talk about with the Ministry of Climate and Business Affairs in a meeting at the Government Offices this week.
Earlier this summer, Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari highlighted the launch of CLIMB, and recently Ecogain gave its input to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on the new national biodiversity plan.
Ecogain's Anders Enetjärn and Josefin Ohlson were invited to the Ministry of Climate and Business to talk about CLIMB and discuss how the business community can contribute to the national and global biodiversity goals.
Government needs to support industry roadmaps for biodiversity
The 20-25 people who attended the meeting showed great interest and asked many questions, including how CLIMB can facilitate permitting processes, how projects already done with the model have turned out, and how CLIMB can be linked to new reporting requirements. The government wants to activate the business community in biodiversity issues, and based on Ecogain's long experience of working with it, several important issues were discussed:
- Lessons learned from the successful work of the Business@Biodiversity Sweden network,
- The potential of CLIMB now that the model will be launched
- Experiences of how CLIMB has been used and received by county councils
- Our experience of how leading companies are starting to incorporate biodiversity into their business models
We also highlighted the importance of the government supporting the emergence of industry roadmaps for biodiversity, in the same way that there are roadmaps for different industries to become fossil-free.
At Ecogain, we are grateful that the experience we build up in our business can be used to make a difference in some of humanity's essential issues.
Want to know more about CLIMB?
Welcome to a free webinar on September 7th with Ecogain's Tove Hägglund about CLIMB and how you can learn to use it in your business.
