Business and biodiversity: a guide for the private sector

This guide has been devised specifically to represent business interests, to tell business people how to become more engaged in implementing the Convention, and to encourage the private sector to contribute its valuable experience to the process under way. To achieve this, the guide proposes a medium-term work program for business. The information in this guide is both theoretical and practical and has been designed to be as relevant to the chief executive officer as it is to corporate or environmental affairs managers or local site managers.

At the same time, the guide aims to serve as an introduction for conservationists to the way business manages biodiversity. The report argues that the opportunities provided through the Convention will help businesses to work more closely with conservation organizations – to their mutual benefit. However, for such partnerships to develop successfully, business people must have a clear understanding of the implications of the Convention.