Business &
Biodiversity
The business case for biodiversity
Businesses depend on nature for clean air, water, food and resilient supply chains, yet biodiversity loss is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. With this reliance comes responsibility: businesses must move beyond minimising harm to actively protecting and restoring nature through their operations, supply chains and influence. Taking action on biodiversity is not only essential for the environment, but critical to long‑term business resilience and shared prosperity.
An Introduction to
Biodiversity Workshop
Provides a baseline knowledge of biodiversity for professionals working across all sectors and departments,
and is suitable for beginners.
Business & Biodiversity Charter
This framework helps organisations manage and improve their impact on biodiversity, provides independent recognition, empowers employees to take action for nature, and strengthens links between business, communities and environmental organisations.
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Nature & Biodiversity
Resources
A wealth of resources are available
for free download. Please have
a look and take action.
Seeing is Believing visit highlights the business role in protecting and restoring nature and biodiversity
Senior business leaders from across Northern Ireland took part in a Business in the Community Seeing is Believing visit on 12 August 2026 to explore how businesses can help protect and restore nature and biodiversity.
The full-day visit, led by Joe O’Neill, CEO of Belfast Harbour, took delegates to Belfast Harbour, Lough Neagh and Northstone’s Craigantlet quarry. The programme was designed to help leaders see first-hand the pressures facing nature in Northern Ireland, hear directly from organisations working on practical restoration, and reflect on what this means for their own organisations.
Nature & Biodiversity Resources
A wealth of resources are available for free download. Please have a look and take action.
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Nature & Biodiversity Award Winner 2025
Translink is Northern Ireland’s public transport provider, operating an integrated bus and rail network that connects hundreds of communities. Beyond its core transport function, Translink is a leader in environmental stewardship, managing extensive land assets and embedding biodiversity into its operations.
Find out moreNature-based solutions go hand-in-hand with combatting climate change, and businesses have a responsibility to protect and enhance our natural environment.
"Real change for nature and biodiversity happens when businesses move beyond awareness and use what they've seen and learned to shape future decisions, partnerships and action."
UPCOMING EVENTS
Biodiversity in Action: Learning and Nature Park Tour at ECOS
29 Sep 2026
Join Business in the Community, in partnership with Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, for an in-p [...]
Book NowHow the Business & Biodiversity Charter can help your business
- Provides a framework for organisations of all sizes to address their impact on biodiversity, not only in terms of land-holding management but also in relation to their activities, products and services
- Provides a mechanism for third-party recognition of an organisations’ biodiversity management
- Gives employees the capacity to undertake biodiversity-related actions at home and in their communities outside work
- Enables employees to gain the health and wellbeing benefits associated with green space/biodiversity activities
- Fosters links between environmental organisations, business and the community
