Biodiversity is being lost at a fast rate, with global production, consumption and trade patterns as important drivers of biodiversity loss. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has recognized this, with Target 15 calling for disclosure by companies of their biodiversity impacts and Target 16 ensuring that people can make sustainable consumption choices.
For this it is imperative to have tools in place that allow quantifying biodiversity impacts along value chains in a consistent way. In this session, we aim to have presentations about novel and promising approaches for how to assess biodiversity impacts along entire value chains on a global level. We encourage submissions across the terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms and we aim to have a breadth of possible biodiversity metrics and indicators included, such as indicators related to changes in species richness, functional diversity or ecosystem services.
We also call on contributions from a different range of stakeholders, from businesses to policy makers and the scientific community.