UBi – engaging German companies for biodiversity

Promoting Awareness for Biodiversity in Businesses and Associations in Germany

The UBi project, part of the German Federal Programme for Biological Diversity, aims to raise awareness in companies and business associations by providing them with state-of-the-art knowledge on biodiversity and improving its integration into the strategic planning of companies. The project focuses on aspects such as supply chains, networking, and sustainability management, directly contributing to the implementation of the German National Strategy on Biological Diversity in line with the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. Both strategies provide a comprehensive framework at national and EU level respectively, to stop biodiversity loss and reverse ecosystem degradation.

 

Working with all German stakeholders

Germany has a wide spectrum of business associations and organisations focusing on nature conservation. The UBI project, initiated among others by the German Federal Ministry for Environment, is set up as a dialogue and action platform to encourage exchange and cooperation among these key actors and promote action. Currently 37 major business associations and nature conservation organisations are actively involved in the UBi project.

 

Targets

• informing
• sensitising
• qualifying
• implementing

 

Funder

Is funded within the Federal Programme for Biological Diversity by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with resources from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

 

Project duration and partners:

The project will run until 2026 and it is led by the CSCP and four partners, ′Biodiversity in Good Company′ Initiative, Bodensee-Stiftung, DIHK Service and the Global Nature Fund.

Program Profile

 

Funding priority: Further measures of particular representative importance for the National Strategy on Biological Diversity (NBS)

 

Federal state: nationwide, Germany

 

Duration: November 2021 – October 2026

 

Total funding volume: € 4.73 million

 

Coordinating project partner: Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) gGmbH

 

Collaborating partners: ′Biodiversity in Good Company′ Initiative e.V., DIHK GmbH, Global Nature Fund, Lake Constance Foundation

 

Funding Organisation: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) with funds from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)

 

 

Overview of Biodiversity Strategies in Germany and Europe:

 

German Strategy: biologischevielfalt.bfn.de/…/BMU_Natio_Strategie_en_bf.pdf

 

Information about the biodiversity strategiy on European Level: https://biodiversity.europa.eu/countries/germany/eu-biodiversity-strategy

 

Broshure about the german strategy: https://biologischevielfalt./NBS/documents/publication/BMUV_Natio_Strategy_en.pdf

 

European Strategy https://environment.ec.europa.eu/strategy/biodiversity-strategy-2030