The first Global Business of Biodiversity symposium is taking place on Tuesday 13 July at the Excel Conference Centre in London. HRH Prince Charles will open the day’s proceedings via a video message stressing the need for businesses to adopt sustainable practises to conserve biodiversity.
The Business of Biodiversity conference, organised by Ten Alps Events in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills, brings together large and small businesses across all sectors to discuss ways of achieving business success while also protecting our ecosystems for the future.
The final report of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study will also be launched on the day. Pavan Sukhdev, TEEB Study Leader, will deliver the main conclusions of the three year assessment.
The TEEB study has pulled together biodiversity surveys and studies from all over the world to assess how the current rate of biodiversity loss will affect our global economy unless action is taken now. The findings are expected to show that the costs of conserving our biodiversity amount to, at most, just a tenth of the projected future economic benefits of doing so.
Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the Environment will also address delegates as well as industry leaders from Rio Tinto, The Head Group, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Unilever.
Soil Association Organic Fortnight (3–17 September) is the UK’s biggest celebration of all things organic. Organic farming is a sustainable system of food production that works with nature, avoids the use of pesticides, and prohibits the use of synthetic fertilisers and genetically modified organisms.
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