Every day, the planet's nearly 7 billion people are consuming biodiversity without knowing it, ignoring the source. Cancer medicines, food delicacies, lipsticks, chewing gums, perfumes, clothes and many other products contain ingredients provided by wild nature and regulated by CITES. When a species arrives on a CITES list, it can be seen as the result of a collective failure. Sometimes those failures rest clearly within unregulated markets, but there are many cases where governments, corporations and consumers are inadvertently pursuing unsustainable agendas with regard to the use of our natural capital. For instance, overfishing and excessive logging are destroying marine and forest life every day. Sourcing, traceability and reputation are three key issues that need to be addressed if the world is to manage the business risks to biodiversity in a more responsible manner.
The Table on Business and Biodiversity explored positive examples and major challenges of the business and biodiversity linkages around the harvesting, transport and retailing aspects. It provided an important opportunity to send a constructive message to the business community on the following issues:
- Sustainable roadmaps for businesses - from the source to the end consumer: what can we do, what are the available tools?
- Paying the right price: how to reinvest part of the benefits into conservation and recovery of our natural capital.
- Shared responsibility: how to rebalance the conservation responsibility along the whole value chain?
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