Mainstreaming biodiversity in business decisions: Taking stock of tools and gaps

Katic, Pamela; Cerretelli, Stefania; Haggar, Jeremy; Santika, Truly; Walsh, Conor

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109831

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“…The impact of climate change on vegetation growth is most directly reflected in physiological activities such as respiration, transpiration, and photosynthesis. Currently, ecosystem vulnerability and biodiversity have become prominent topics in ecological research [7,8]. However, the impact of extreme climate events on vegetation may be more direct and significant than mean climate events [9].…”

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Impacts of Extreme Precipitation and Diurnal Temperature Events on Grassland Productivity at Different Elevations on the Plateau

An,

Zhai,

Song

et al. 2024

Remote Sensing

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The impact of extreme climate events on vegetation growth and ecosystem function has garnered widespread attention, particularly in plateau regions, which are facing increasingly severe environmental pressures. This study employs the Events Coincidence Analysis (ECA) method to examine the impacts of extreme climate events on the Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of vegetation in plateau regions. Specifically, we focus on the unique phenomenon of asymmetric daytime and nighttime warming and evaluate the compounding effect of extreme precipitation with extreme temperature events. The results indicate that grassland NPP has higher overall sensitivity and Coincidence Rates (CR) to extreme precipitation events compared to extreme temperature events. Specifically, extreme drought events significantly negatively impact grassland NPP, and the sensitivity of NPP increases with the severity of extreme drought events. In lower elevations (<3200 m), grassland NPP shows a strong response to extreme precipitation events, with sensitivity decreasing with increasing elevation, especially for alpine meadows. Extreme high-temperature events contributed significantly to NPP in mid to high elevations (3000–5000 m). Compound extreme climate events amplify the average coincidence degree with NPP anomalies, with extreme precipitation events playing a major role in compound effects. The CR of compound climate events can reach above 0.6, reflected in the anomaly increase of NPP in temperate grasslands at higher elevations caused by compound events of extremely wet and extremely high temperatures.

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Impacts of Extreme Precipitation and Diurnal Temperature Events on Grassland Productivity at Different Elevations on the Plateau

An,

Zhai,

Song

et al. 2024

Remote Sensing

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“…Additionally, groups failing to engage local stakeholders prior to implementation risk burdening communities with maintaining projects that were not designed consistent with their values or capacity to manage. Specific strategies and innovative funding mechanisms (Katic et al., 2023; Löfqvist et al., 2023) are needed to allow reforestation projects to persist successfully over the scale of decades (Banin et al., 2023; Oakes et al., 2022; Rana & Miller, 2021).…”

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Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts

Schubert,

Battaglia,

Blebea

et al. 2024

Conservation Letters.

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As global tree‐growing efforts have escalated in the past decade, copious failures and unintended consequences have prompted many reforestation best practices guidelines. The extent to which organizations have integrated these ecological and socioeconomic recommendations, however, remains uncertain. We reviewed websites of 99 intermediary organizations that promote and fund tree‐growing projects to determine how well they report following best practices. Nearly half the organizations stated tree or area planting targets, but only 25% had measurable, time‐bound objectives. Most organizations discussed the benefits local communities would receive from trees, but only 38% reported measures of these outcomes. Nonprofit organizations with greater prior experience converged more closely on best practices, and their level of scientific expertise was positively associated with clearer project selection standards. Although many tree‐growing organizations acknowledge the importance of clear goals, local community involvement, and monitoring, our results raise questions regarding whether long‐term benefits are being achieved and emphasize the need for stronger public accountability standards.

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“…NatureMetrics claims to have worked with over 500 companies, including Tesco, Anglo American, MSC Cruises, Jacobs, and Nestlé, in over 100 countries. However, in reviewing some of the tools that help businesses to measure their performance on biodiversity issues, Katic et al (2023) revealed that understanding the strengths and limitations of each of these tools, and of how they might respond to a business's needs, was not straightforward for companies, and that while 'these tools contained significant requirements related to biodiversity conservation, their implementation, being driven by market forces, is, at best, only partially aligned with global targets for biodiversity protection.' This led Katic et al (2023) to conclude 'there is a growing need to develop a common view among key stakeholders on the measurement, monitoring, and disclosure of corporate biodiversity impact and dependencies, to help integrate more credible and comprehensive indicators of corporate contribution to global biodiversity goals into corporate reporting and global policy frameworks.…”

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ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER's downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles' Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER's mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people's opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one's opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education

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Mainstreaming biodiversity in business decisions: Taking stock of tools and gaps

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

Impacts of Extreme Precipitation and Diurnal Temperature Events on Grassland Productivity at Different Elevations on the Plateau

Impacts of Extreme Precipitation and Diurnal Temperature Events on Grassland Productivity at Different Elevations on the Plateau

Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts

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