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26 September 2024

Following a successful Milan edition in 2023, the European Business and Nature Summit will reconvene in 2025 to catalyse transformative actions that businesses to transition towards a nature-positive society. The EU Business and Biodiversity Platform, as lead organiser of the Summit, aims to announce the location and date of the 2025 Summit edition in this newsletter towards the end of 2024. Stay tuned!

The year 2024 builds on the existing momentum on biodiversity and calls for growing transformative action from business. The EU Business and Biodiversity Platform welcomes the organization of the second edition of the EU Business and Biodiversity Forum led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Brussels on September 19th. The event organised by WWF will be essential to explore the key role of businesses in the changing international and European context and at the upcoming UN biodiversity conference, COP 16. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with experts, pioneering companies, and peers who are shaping the future of biodiversity action.

18 - 20 September 2024

26 July 2024 to 7 August 2024

20 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:00

On 6 December, the European Commission adopted the Horizon Europe work programme 2023-24, announcing €13.5 billion investment for research and innovation action, with the first calls for proposals on Zero Pollution now being open.

Are you passionate about climate action and sustainability? Then this photo competition is for you! The main aim is to celebrate climate action in all parts of Europe and reward citizens who are actively fighting climate change at the local level. Deadline to apply: 28 June!

The European Business Awards for the Environment (EBAE) are now open. The awards celebrate businesses for their eco-innovation and their respect for the environment as a core business principle. And this year there is a new award category for Business and Biodiversity!

Natura 2000 is a Europe-wide netwrok of over 27,800 nature conservation areas. It covers almost a fifth of Europe’s land area and nearly 10% of the surounding seas. The European Natura 2000 Award honours conservation achievements and rewards excellence in the management and promotion of the Natura 2000 network.

The Green Public Procurement (GPP) Helpdesk has launched a short survey to gather feedback from our subscribers on both the News Alert in general and the case studies in particular. We want to hear about your experience with the News Alert. Don't miss the opportunity to give us your feedback!

On 1 December, the Commission launched the largest public consultation ever held on the past, present and future of the EU's Horizon research and innovation programmes 2014-2027. It is open for 12 weeks and contributes to the final evaluation of Horizon 2020, the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe, and lays the groundwork for preparation of the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025-27. The survey is still open for a few more days and Zero Pollution Stakeholders are welcome to provided their feedback at the link:

Business for Nature invites businesses from all sectors, geographies, and of all sizes to respond to a policy consultation and share their views on: 1) Reducing negative direct impacts; 2) The role to be played by SMEs; 3) Addressing environmentally harmful subsidies; 4) Mechanisms to incentivize sustainable use and penalise negative impacts; and 5) Legislation on deforestation and conversion free supply chains.

The Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 set the target to make at least 25 000km of rivers free-flowing again by 2030. This brochure supports all actors involved to achieve this target.

The overall objective of this service is to improve the uptake of new scientific findings in environment policy development and its implementation and to improve the Science-Policy Interface in general.

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The Biodiversity Action Plan Monitoring Tool (BAP-Monitor) aims to guide actions to regenerate biodiversity through examples of targets, measures and methods for gathering data, simple scoring system, statistics and graphics.

Capitals Coalition announces the start of the business implementation program for the UN TEEBAagriFood project. TEEBAagriFood – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food – is a study which aims to provide a comprehensive economic evaluation of the eco-agri-food systems nexus.

Interview with Frédéric Coupain, Head of Service, Collectors, Pumping Stations division at IDEA.

Joint interview with Jai Krishna from European Environmental Bureau and Tudor Cherhat from the Environmental Coalition on Standards. Mr. Krishna works with the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) as Zero Pollution Industry expert and is focussing on scaling the demand for green steel and low carbon cement demand in public procurement. Mr. Cherhat is a programme manager at Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS), overseeing campaign and promotion efforts focused on GPP for buildings and construction materials.

Interview with the Green Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Alcalá, which is coordinated by Ximena Lazo Vitoria (pictured). The research group recently carried out a study titled ‘Is public procurement in Spain sufficiently green?: An empirical study of school canteens’ which aimed to provide information to support public decisions-making and for social and economic actors in the food sector.