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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2026 Nature &
Biodiversity Award
Enter now! This Award celebrates organisations
making a significant commitment and contribution
to improving biodiversity and the natural
environment in Northern Ireland.
Enter the 2026 Responsible Business Awards
The 2026 Nature & Biodiversity Award is up-for-grabs. This Award recognises the organisation that best demonstrates a significant commitment and contribution to improving biodiversity and the natural environment in Northern Ireland.
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Belfast City Airport Young Minds and Trees Project
In 2025, Belfast City Airport’s Community Fund enabled The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) to deliver a £10,000 biodiversity initiative, empowering young people across Greater Belfast and North Down to connect with and protect their local environment.
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Encirc: a looped walkway for people and nature
Encirc employs almost 2,000 people and each year produces around 3 billion glass containers for leading global brands. Encirc is also one of the leading wine, beer and spirits bottle fillers in the UK, and is the only company to offer a full ‘360’ approach to the beverage supply chain, creating flexibility, support and minimising carbon impact.
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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.
"Nature-based solutions go hand-in-hand with combatting climate change, and businesses have a responsibility to protect and enhance our natural environment."
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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
