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Nature & Biodiversity

About

Nature is all around us, it is the physical world we inhabit, collectively flora, fauna, funga and our very landscapes. Yet despite its pervasiveness, it is still one of the most overlooked sustainability topics within procurement functions. Our Nature and Biodiversity chapter aims to change this. We aim to demystify the topic and encourage procurement professionals globally to stand up for nature and take an active role in protecting and conserving it by buying better. Every physical product purchased will have originated in nature. It is therefore incumbent on procurement professionals to understand their dependencies on nature and the impact their purchases have on it too.

Our Chapter’s Objectives

  1. Increase procurement professional’s awareness and understanding of nature and biodiversity
  2. Help procurement professionals include nature considerations in their buying decisions
  3. Demystify nature-based standards and regulations and explain how procurement professionals can leverage these in their own practices and processes
  4. Provide a community to share best practice, success stories and innovations
  5. Encourage Procurement to take a leadership role on nature

Our Chapter’s Strategy

We will deliver our objectives by partnering closely with other industry bodies which can share best practice and provide guidance to our community. We will foster a community mindset by encouraging those in our community to share their stories so others can learn from these. We will run engaging workshops which curate content into actionable guidance which Procurement professionals can immediately incorporate into their day job.

Chapter Co-Chairs

Emma Howcroft

Co-Chair, Transformation Panel

Marina Bradford

Co-Chair

Team members

If you are interested in supporting the SPP Nature & Biodiversity Chapter, please drop a direct message to our Co-Chairs via LinkedIn or send an application of interest via our form.

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Learning journey

We’ve organised our resources into stages whereby you can begin with the essentials and work through to the more specific and detailed resources. 

Resources

We invite you to browse our chapter resources including  videos, downloadable PDF documents and external websites. 

Simple steps you can follow to get started on nature depending on the maturity of your organisation and their own nature-appetite.

This guide is a reference manual for companies seeking to source their agricultural raw materials sustainably. It is intended for any food and beverage company buying its raw materials from farmers directly or indirectly.

These guidelines are targeted to brand owners, hotels, restaurants and supermarkets and some specific commodities, palm oil, wood and paper, seafood, plastic and energy.

TNFD’s business case for why nature should matter to business and lays the foundation blocks for understanding nature and business.

Real life case studies showing the true costs of not taking nature related impacts and dependencies into business decisions.

WBCSD’s Roadmap to Nature Positive aims to support companies within the energy system, focusing on the Oil & Gas and Utilities sectors, in identifying the most relevant nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities. In doing so, it equips companies with insights needed to define and prioritize immediate actions.

WBCSD’s Roadmap to Nature Positive builds on an assessment of the most significant impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across the four value chain stages of a project (from extraction to demolition) and informs six key priority actions that all businesses and stakeholders should take to transform the built environment system.

WBCSD’s Roadmap to Nature Positive offers a shared definition of nature-positive action for the forestry sector and signposts guidance and tools to support forestry companies in the implementation of nature-positive strategies.

WBCSD’s Roadmap to Nature Positive considers the full agri-food value chain, with a main focus on row crop commodity production. It includes landscape deep dives and case studies.

Use Encore’s downloads to determine what nature-based risks should be associated with each of your suppliers’ industries. This risks should then guide how you engage with your suppliers next.

Latest guidance from the Science Based Targets Network for companies to take ambitious and measurable action for nature.

SBTN share their list of recommended experts by country, sector and steps.

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