Lessons learnt - the use of the GBS to assess raw material supply-chains and listed equities
Joshua Berger, Global Biodiversity Score Project Manager
COP 14 14-15 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – Corporate biodiversity footprint side event
❑ 2018-2020: an opportunity to stop the decline of biodiversity
❑ Strong political agenda
❑ Demand from finance
❑ Post 2020 quantitative targets at COP15?
❑ Need to quantify the impact of businesses and financial assets
❑ Assess their contribution to achieving global targets
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The need for tools to assess the footprint of
economic activities
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A metric to meet that need: the Mean Species Abundance
Ecosystem1: Forest Ecosystem2: grassland
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The GBS: a tool to meet the corporate/portfolio assessment needs by linking activities,
pressures and impacts
Refined
assessment
Default
assessment
Turnover by industry and country
Land use changes by type and location;
GHG emissions by scope
Comprehensive ecological
surveys Purchases by
industry and country or by commodity /
service
Scopes are very important concepts to describe the impacts across the value chain
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❑ Ferulic acid is produced from co-products of rice
❑ Dynamic (here land use changes) and static (ecological opportunity cost) impacts assessed
Case study – comparison of the impact of sourcing ferulic acid from different countries
As a reference,
ecoinvent transformation (China)= 4141 m² Equivalent to 3806 MSAm²
with MSA% Agri(China)=8,1%
Case study – comparison of the average impact per ton of a company’s sourcing vs the world average
Case study – assessing the footprint of 5 businesses in a listed equity portfolio (1/2)
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Raw material production
Raw and secondary material processing
Manufacturing Retail Waste and wastewater management
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Energy Transport Construction Financial services
Non-financial services and other activities
Case study – assessing the footprint of 5 businesses in a listed equity portfolio (2/2)
The GBS is supported by about 20 non-FI…
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Value chain workstream
… and 10 FI allowing road-testing and
adjustments to take into account data availability and industry specificities
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Finance workstream
Partners
❑ Dividing MSA loss by 10 is possible by reducing
deforestation, closing the yield gap, moving to healthy diets and moderately mitigating climate change
The need for the integration of global targets into the political agenda
Source: PBL, Roads from Rio: pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050 (2012)
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Antoine Cadi
Directeur Recherche et Innovation Mail:
antoine.cadi@cdc-biodiversite.fr Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 16 Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 63 18 00
Joshua Berger
Chef de projet B4B+
Mail:
joshua.berger@cdc-biodiversite.fr Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 41 Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 86 16 81
