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In January this year, the new Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 101: #Biodiversity 2024 #standard was published and will replace the previous GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016. Read more about main #changes and how the new standard will support companies in the process of understanding their impacts and dependencies on #nature: https://lnkd.in/ewZqxK7k

I'm pleased to share our latest paper, recently published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials (Q1, IF: 13.6). In this study, we present an environmentally sustainable method for managing harmful cyanobacterial blooms. By applying the Vertical Flow Multi-Soil-Layering Eco-technology, we observed significant reductions in cyanobacteria and microcystins, resulting in improved water quality. By addressing the environmental threats of eutrophication, this research underscores the potential for sustainable water management that promotes ecological health and biodiversity conservation.

Biodiversity loss is a great danger for us all and the associated risks for companies are growing. Therefore, regulators and investors are requiring more transparency on such risks from companies. Reporting frameworks and standards are following, as can be seen in the new GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 standard.

Check out my latest Malk Insights article on the importance of #biodiversity considerations for investors and businesses!

Global institutions and investors are increasingly focusing on #biodiversity as a key environmental risk with wide-ranging economic impacts. As capital allocations and regulatory scrutiny towards biodiversity mount, investors and management teams should expand their environmental considerations to cover nature-related risks and value creation opportunities. Read Malk's key insights on why biodiversity should be on your radar and best practices for integrating biodiversity considerations into the investment lifecycle. https://lnkd.in/eEaPQEny

Incorporating #biodiversity considerations into index construction? Our latest #STOXX #report might help. We dive deep into the framework behind the ISS STOXX Biodiversity Indices - evaluating the metrics available and deconstructing the four-step process. Read the synopsis of the report here: https://hubs.la/Q0263BQq0

On this International Biodiversity Day, we're sharing our next UNSUSTAINABLE series: the biodiversity data gap. Biodiversity is disappearing at the fastest rate in human history but we do not have the data infrastructure to manage biodiversity at a global scale. Novel biodiversity monitoring, verification, and reporting technologies are emerging to solve this problem and help halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Check out the blog for more. https://lnkd.in/eaWHcj8m #BiodiversityDay #Biodiversity #eDNA

How do biodiversity impact intensities differ between industries with regards to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems? Are they causing mainly new impacts or are they responsible for historic cumulated impacts? The analysis led on the STOXX Europe 600 Index reveals interesting patterns!   📄 This is the third post on a 10 pages analysis of the impact on #biodiversity of a STOXX Europe 600 portfolio conducted by CDC Biodiversité and Carbon4 Finance  using the Biodiversity Impact Analytics powered by the #GlobalBiodiversityScore (BIA-GBS) database. Links to the first two posts and the full document in comments.   📊 The figure break down the intensities in MSA.m2/kEUR of turnover (MSA stands for #MeanSpeciesAbundance, an ecosystem condition metric) for each industry into four “buckets”, combining two elements: the realm of biodiversity impacted (terrestrial or freshwater aquatic) and the accounting category (static or accumulated negative impacts, and dynamic or periodic loss/gain – here losses). It is very important to distinguish impacts by accounting category (and unfortunately not all footprinting tools do that): that allows to track the current condition of ecosystems (through the accumulated negative impacts, and thus accumulated positive impacts, or remaining biodiversity) and the losses or gains during the year assessed, and thus to plot a trajectory and assess whether an economic activity contributes to a nature positive world or not.   The results reveal industries with different profiles: 💼🌮🍺 🌾 Some sectors, such as Manufacture of leather & related products and all the industries with significant uses of biomass (crops, woodlogs, grass for livestock, animal products…), have an important accumulated impact on land use and therefore a predominant static impact. 💲 Dynamic impacts linked to the Climate change pressure stand out for Financial service activities, as the downstream impact of financed emissions on the Climate change is included. ❓ Do you find any results surprising?

This is a great article on biodiversity actually https://lnkd.in/ddk97m3E

Verra’s Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) Nature Framework aims to provide an overarching global framework for projects to address the biodiversity loss crisis. This draft framework will provide the requirements that all biodiversity projects will need to meet, tackling the many trade-offs inherent to measuring biodiversity change. This program is expected to become of the chief standards within the emerging global voluntary biodiversity credit market. #biocredits #SDVISta