The Business and Biodiversity Initiative and its consequences

As the European Portuguese Presidency launched its "Business and Biodiversity" Initiative in the fall of 2007, CEEweb got involved in this process with organizing a conference for Hungarian stakeholders and collecting international and national best practices in this field.

Conference report>>

Presentation:
Countdown 2010: Take action to save biodiversity! (pdf, 3,6 MB) - Shulamit Alony, Countdown 2010

Summaries:
"A" workshop: Hungarian financial opportunities and bank loan schemes - Current opportunities, demands and nature conservation requirements

"B" workshop: Best practices from the business sector - How can environmentally-friendly enterprise be successful?

"C" workshop: National and European Union Regulations - Opportunities and Suggestions

International best practice from the business sector Read more>> Hungarian best practices from the business sector: Europe’s Rural Futures – Hungarian case study (pdf, 418 Kb) Cötkény Rural Development Alliance, Mezõség County Fact sheet on Cötkény case study (pdf) Cötkény Rural Development Alliance, Mezõség County Connection between environment protection, nature conservation and horticultural ecofarming (pdf, 19,5 MB) Zoltán Kovács, Biovitis Limited parnership (Presentation in Hungarian)

Publicatons:
Linking Business and Biodiversity - Bringing people together>> (Article about the outcomes of the conference, organized by CEEweb in Budapest, 29. February 2008.)
Business and Biodiversity>> (CEEweb poster)
Involve the Business!!!>> (CEEweb position on Business and Biodiversity Initiative)
News from Budapest>> (Article about the conference in BUSINESS.2010, the business and biodiversity newsletter of the Convention on Biological Diversity Secreteriat)
Message from Lisbon>> (The message of the High level Conference on Business and Biodiversity, organised by the European Portuguese Presidency)

The activities of CEEweb related to the Business and Biodiversity initiative are realised with the financial support of the European Commission, while the conference was organised with the support of the National Civic Fund of Hungary.