Robust, relevant, and communicable biodiversity initiatives
When your company wishes to implement initiatives to strengthen biodiversity, you should feel confident about your choices, your actions, and the way you communicate them.
Background and approach
Nature is under pressure – both in Denmark and globally. The UN, EU, and national governments set the overall framework for sustainable development. But private companies also have a significant responsibility – and excellent prerequisites – to actively contribute to promoting nature and biodiversity.
It’s about increasingly integrating nature into business strategies. NMS offers ambitious companies the necessary support to develop robust, relevant, and communicable biodiversity projects through:
- Identification of biodiversity initiatives relevant to your business
- Strategic planning focused on value creation and lasting impact
- Implementation, documentation, verification, valuation, and clear communication
Together, we can create projects that strengthen nature – and your company’s role as a responsible and forwardlooking actor.
Protecting and enhancing biodiversity is one of the most important tasks of our time. But the path from good intentions to effective action is complex. It requires insight, collaboration, and many disciplines working together. Increasingly, companies seek qualified, interdisciplinary knowledge on how to create, support, and communicate robust and sustainable biodiversity initiatives.”
– Sune Balle Hansen
Biodiversity initiatives create value for nature and business
- Projects should primarily benefit nature, but increased biodiversity also strengthens landscape resilience – benefiting both people and businesses.
- Projects can be implemented on production sites, within supply chains, or on external areas. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages and can be combined. Since it is rarely possible to eliminate biodiversity impacts entirely in production and supply, offset projects may be necessary to become biodiversity-neutral, biodiversitypositive, or simply to get started.
- Although biodiversity is only subjected to limited regulatory requirements today, requirements are expected to increase. At the same time, society expectations to companies taking biodiversity seriously are growing. Robust initiatives and fact-based communication can create goodwill, strengthen reputation, and boost employee pride.
- However, biodiversity is a complex topic – both to work with and to communicate – and often requires interdisciplinary expertise that companies only partially possess. This is also why it is one of the hardest areas to get decision-makers to prioritize.
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and nongovernmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour.
– Kofi Anan, former UN Secretary-General
We need to embrace a global goal for nature, like we have for climate: a global goal for nature — nature positive by 2030 — so that, by the end of the decade, we have more nature than today, not less: more forests, more fish in the oceans and rivers, more pollinators in our countryside, more biodiversity worldwide.
– Marco Lambertini, former Director General of WWF
We would often like biodiversity to fit into a spreadsheet and a standard report. Work is underway to solve this in a meaningful way, but we must also remember that biodiversity is life – not just numbers.
– Sune Balle Hansen
Biodiversity services
We offer, in collaboration with our strategic partners, professional support and practical execution of the following services, available as individual services, combinations, or complete packages:
IIf you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
– African proverb
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