📅 On February 1st, 2024, at 14:00 CET, CDC Biodiversité is organising a launch event of the MEB's report N°49 : Global Biodiversity Score : Accounting for positive and negative impacts throughout the value chain.

📢 About this event

On February 1st, 2024, CDC Biodiversité will officially release its newest publication on the Global Biodiversity Score (GBS), its biodiversity footprinting tool.

This webinar will be the occasion to quickly introduce CDC Biodiversité and the Mission Economie de la Biodiversité (MEB), as well as our biodiversity footprinting activities.

You will also get an exclusive preview of the content of the publication, and we will focus on key new concepts, including Scope 3 impacts classification, critical dependencies on biodiversity, etc. You'll also learn more about a biodiversity footprinting case study, on Vattenfall experience.

The detailed agenda will be communicated in the coming days.

As a reminder, CDC Biodiversité is a private subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Group, the biggest public financial institution in France. It acts as a consulting and engineering firm specialized in positive actions for biodiversity, biodiversity sustainable management, and measurement of corporate biodiversity footprint. It leads the Mission Economie de la Biodiversité (MEB), a research initiative aiming at innovating on issues related to the preservation and restoration of biodiversity in France and internationally and led this new publication.

📌 Agenda

2:00 - 2:10 - Welcoming words - Arthur Campredon, Biodiversity Footprint Director at CDC Biodiversité

2:10 - 2:20 - Foreword - Biodiversity footprinting in the international and regulatory landscapes: towards bending the curve of biodiversity loss - Patrick de Cambourg, Chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board

2:20 - 2:40 - Content - Overview and focus on the technical in-depth publication content - CDC Biodiversité's team

2:40 - 2:50 - Case study - Assessing Vattenfall's biodiversity footprint and setting science-based targets with the GBS - Josefin Blanck, Director Environmental Strategic Projects at Vattenfall

2:50 - 3:00 - Closing words - Join CDC Biodiversité's ecosystem on biodiversity footprinting - Claire Blery, Head of the B4B+Club & training team at CDC Biodiversité

💻 Zoom information

To come.

📖 Related publications

Previous reports describing the Global Biodiversity Score (GBS) are linked here. The GBS is a tool used to assess the biodiversity footprint of businesses and financial institutions.

• CDC Biodiversité (2021), Global Biodiversity Score - Establishing an ecosystem of stakeholders to measure the biodiversity performance of human activities, BERGER, J., CHOUKROUN, R., COSTES, A., MARIETTE, J., ROUET-POLLAKIS, S., VALLIER, A., ZHANG, P. ; Paris, July 2020 (BIODIV’2050 Outlook – N°18) Download

• CDC Biodiversité, Measuring the contributions of business and finance towards the post-2020 global biodiversity framework – 2019 technical update – BERGER, J., CHOUKROUN, R., MELKI, A., VALLIER, A., ZHANG, P. ; Paris, July 2020 (BIODIV’2050 Outlook – N°15) Download

• CDC Biodiversité, Global Biodiversity Score : a tool to establish and measure corporate and financial commitments for biodiversity – 2018 technical update, Paris, avril 2019 (BIODIV’2050 Outlook - N°14) Download

• CDC Biodiversité, Global Biodiversity Score: measuring a company’s biodiversity footprint – Paris, November 2017 (BIODIV’2050 Outlook, N°11) Download

Launch webinar | New publication on the Global Biodiversity Score (GBS)