Biodiversity Governance

Be the catalyst to change—build strategic internal enterprise frameworks that will benefit biodiversity.

Good biodiversity governance enables corporations to implement effective programs to reduce the burden put on biodiversity by human activity and development. It allows organizations across sectors and industries to consider ecosystems and specific species in their decision-making framework to ensure nature-positive results.

Featured Capabilities

WSP’s wide range of biodiversity specialists and advisors, including marine biologists, fisheries experts, wildlife ecologists, vegetation and wetland specialists, and more, can support your biodiversity governance efforts to combat the negative results human activities have had on biodiversity in the decades leading up to now. We guide you to establishing strategic directions built on accountability and measurable goals to implement and enforce solutions and programs that promote net gain or no net loss.

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Corporate Biodiversity Performance

With the rise of the public, government and investors’ expectation of ESG-conscious operations, improving biodiversity performance and conservation is no longer a complimentary add-on but an imperative requirement for future corporate success. Whether you’re a novice or expert in achieving ESG objectives, WSP can help you turn your vision into practical and implementable plans by drawing on our substantial experience managing and conserving biodiversity. We ensure you achieve measurable positive outcomes by working closely with you, from the corporate level down to individual operations.

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Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Support

Benchmarking and reporting on biodiversity performance are on the rise. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure is set to launch in 2023 to facilitate improved biodiversity performance for all businesses, sectors and industries. WSP can help you prepare for the TNFD and improve your company’s biodiversity performance by applying our understanding of the TNFD from being the official observer for its Technical Scope and expertise benchmarking on TCFD, ESG and other sustainability metrics starting now.

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Stakeholder Management & Engagement

With a heightened focus on biodiversity among stakeholders and investors, it’s essential to manage proliferating and evolving stakeholder expectations and facilitate effective communication. WSP’s biodiversity experts, stakeholder engagement experts and Indigenous relations experts can help you foster understanding and develop appropriate biodiversity management strategies to maintain and enhance stakeholder relations and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

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Clients we help

	Mining, Resource & Industry We help you integrate biodiversity conservation into your corporate objectives and make commitments toward improving your operations' biodiversity performance. We provide adapted key performance indicators to monitor your biodiversity performance and advice to reach your goals successfully and guide you in integrating biodiversity issues into your business models, governance and disclosure requirements.
	Investor & Private Equity Firms By providing a complete picture of your biodiversity risks and opportunities, we support you in making commitments to improve the biodiversity performance of your portfolio. Further, we support you in data collection and processing to help you gain a clear understanding of your investments' impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.
	Forestry & Agriculture We help you identify how and where your operations and supply chains can impact biodiversity and support you in developing scalable goals and indicators that will provide your company information of value in analyzing and communicating the company’s performance in terms of biodiversity.
	Energy Providers & Utilities Our experts can help you develop your framework for adapted biodiversity governance, performance monitoring and reporting procedures. We provide adapted key performance indicators to monitor your biodiversity performance and advice to reach your goals successfully.