European Business & Biodiversity Forum

Organized by WWF

To continue encouraging and supporting company action on nature issues, the European Business and Biodiversity Forum returns 19 September 2024 in Brussels at The Egg, and 20 September 2024 at WWF Belgium.

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"We must no longer just do better, we must do what nature needs."

The main Forum will take place on September 19th 2024, from 9 am to 6 pm at The Egg Rue Bara 175, 1070 Bruxelles. There will be a Welcome Coffee from 8.30 am and a Cocktail from 6 pm. 

Special Sessions for WWF Corporate Partners will take place on September 20th 2024, from 9 am to 1 pm at WWF Belgium, Bd Emile Jacqmain 90, 1000 Bruxelles. There will be a Welcome coffee from 8.30 am and a Buffet Lunch from 1 pm.

Agenda

September 19th

Conferences, designed to highlight the most pressing issues of the moment:

• The international context: the key role of businesses in the new post-European elections landscape, and at the upcoming UN biodiversity conference, COP16
• The regulatory context: an analysis of the main asks of the CSRD on nature topics, and best ways to address them
• The urgency of ambitious commitments and action by companies on biodiversity: latest progress from SBTN, and testimonies of the first companies to have set Science Based Targets for Nature
• The key role of financial institutions in driving corporate action: examples of financial institutions deploying TNFD and other initiatives
• The importance of building robust transition plans for nature, covering technical, operational aspects (impacts, risks, objectives, etc.), but also organizational and financial aspects (key learnings from the new WWF publication on Nature Transition plans )

Workshops in small groups, to give you the opportunity to meet pioneer companies and have access to experts:

• concrete cases of companies piloting SBTN;
• perspectives on different key stages of developing a robust biodiversity strategy;
• putting your business into action (One Planet for Business Framework ; It’s now for nature ; Biodiversity Risk Filter); 
• going further than reducing impacts, to address positive contributions; 
• providing collective solutions (landscape initiatives; coalitions of pioneering companies), etc. 

For any questions, you can contact Laure Lemarquis at llemarquis@wwf.fr, or Titus Ghyselinck at titus.ghyselinck@wwf.be 

Photo by Blake Verdoorn on Unsplash. Bridge over a green Waterfall.