What Does Biodiversity Loss Mean for Business?
As we enter the 6th mass extinction on Earth, investing just US $700 billion per year (< 1% annual global GDP) could reverse biodiversity loss.
Source: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Who could benefit from the Biodiversity Collage workshop?
This three-hour interactive workshop is for ESG and leadership teams from organisations across all sectors. Fostering teamwork, creativity and empowerment through knowledge, the Biodiversity Collage workshop slots into any corporate social responsibility program.
It builds a shared understanding of biodiversity loss, the business risks it creates and how your organisation and sector can help to protect and rebuild it.
Biodiversity Collage can inspire more comprehensive and impactful ESG policy, promoting employee engagement and collective ideas-sourcing across your business.
What does the Biodiversity Collage workshop involve?
Following the Climate Fresk model, Biodiversity Collage participants build a visual mind map with 40 cards to understand ecosystem relationships and biodiversity. This three-hour interactive workshop explores key topics like ecosystem services, human impacts and conservation strategies. Participants reflect on business threats and dependencies connected to biodiversity loss and ideate impactful ESG strategies for both conservation and regeneration.
Activity Structure
- Guided by the facilitator, each group uses 40 cards to map out ecosystems’ reach and the implications of biodiversity loss.
- Participants discuss their reactions to what they have learnt. This is a time to discuss business risks and dependencies, alongside ESG policy considerations, leaving space for everyone’s personal responses.
- Phase 3 of the Biodiversity Collage is a time to kickstart ESG risk assessments and discuss high impact business level solutions. This is where we think BIG and strategic. Seeking not just to minimise impacts but promote regeneration. We tailor this section to your organisation and sector, to make it as relevant as possible.
Workshop conditions
- 4 to 7 people per table – 2 tables per facilitator
- As many facilitators as required
- Duration: 3 hours minimum
Key Modules covered
- Biodiversity basics
- Ecosystem services
- Human impacts on nature
- Major threats to biodiversity
- Strategies for conservation and restoration
Stories from Participants: Engaging with the Biodiversity Collage
Context:
Mélisande Pontvianne is the Thought Leadership Senior Manager at Schneider Electric, specializing in Communication & Project Management, CSR, and Foundations. With over 10 years of experience in consulting as the Head of Ethical Communication, she is dedicated to helping organizations engage their stakeholders and enhance cohesion and transparency. Mélisande participated in the Biodiversity Collage with Decarboneaser.
What Mélisande says about her experience:
‘The Biodiversity Collage is a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with nature and understand the vital role that biodiversity plays in our economies and communities.
As urban dwellers, it’s easy to overlook how much we depend on natural resources for everything – from the air we breathe to the food we eat, the products we use, and the medicines that keep us healthy.
If you’re wondering how you can contribute to fighting climate change and biodiversity loss, this workshop is a wonderful tool to raise awareness and collaborate! The more we learn, the better choices we can make, and we can inspire others to do the same..’
The 4 pillars of our Biodiversity workshop
Key figures about the Biodiversity Collage workshop
100,000+
Individuals participated
300+
facilitators and growing fast!
25
Countries
Key takeaways for businesses
Broaden ESG Knowledge
Help your leadership team understand the business risks and dependencies connected to biodiversity loss.
A Fun Journey For Teams
Learn together in a fun, interactive setting, bringing your team together and promoting employee buy-in and engagement with your ESG framework.
Build Sustainability Leadership
Help your ESG/leadership teams identify strategies your organisation can incorporate to protect and rejuvenate our ecosystem locally.
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FAQ
What is the Biodiversity Collage?
The Biodiversity Collage is a fun and collaborative workshop! It empowers participants by helping them to understand the importance of biodiversity and its business implications. It is also a valuable resource for leadership/ESG teams looking to optimise their sustainability strategies.
What are the threats to biodiversity?
Biodiversity faces numerous threats: –
- urbanisation and infrastructure development
- industrial expansion, fuelled by global supply chains
- pollution from carbon emissions and chemical spills
- climate change itself disrupts ecosystems with extreme and unseasonal weather events
- overexploitation of natural resources, from human activities like deforestation, overfishing and global supply chains
- invasive species outcompeting natives, diseases and parasites – all of which are exacerbated by human activity
Collectively, these threats not only exacerbate the effects of climate change but also threaten our access to food, clean air and water. They therefore pose a greater existential threat than climate change itself.
What are some interesting biodiversity facts?
- The planet possesses an estimated 8.7 million species
- Half of all plant and animal species find their habitats in rainforests
- Human activities have dramatically accelerated biodiversity loss, causing species extinction rates to soar up to 1,000 times above natural rates