LifeWatch Flanders advisory board & open session on Corporate Biodiversity Reporting

As part of the LifeWatch Flanders advisory board, LifeWatch Belgium organises a session around Corporate Biodiversity Reporting.

Private companies are in need for biodiversity data, for obligatory reporting to the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), but also in the framework of voluntary reporting initiatives. However, it is not always clear for the private sector what data is available. On the other hand, from a biodiversity research infrastructure perspective, the requirements from the private sector or bottlenecks to use data or services are not always visible. Therefore, LifeWatch Flanders organises an on open session to bridge the gaps between the private sector's needs and the tools and services that biodiversity infrastructures, governmental institutes and NGOs can provide.

For this session, Johan Lammerant (Arcadis) will introduce us to Corporate Biodiversity Reporting with a lecture on Data needs for corporate biodiversity reporting.

This session will be followed by a Question & Answer session and a round table discussion to discuss bottlenecks for biodiversity reporting. Arcadis and Mantis Consulting will provide insights from the private sector. Representatives from research infrastructures, policy and civil society are invited to join the discussion and formulate action points. 

About our speaker: Johan Lammerant is Lead Expert Natural Capital and Biodiversity within Arcadis. His focus areas are business and biodiversity (measuring biodiversity, corporate biodiversity strategy), natural capital (risk assessment, valuation, accounting) and biodiversity policy (global, EU). On behalf of the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform he regularly publishes update reports on biodiversity measurement tools for businesses and financial institutions. Within the ALIGN project he contributed to publications such as ‘Recommendations for a standard on corporate biodiversity measurement and valuation’ and the discussion paper on ‘Measuring corporate contributions to Nature Positive’. He supports the WBCSD with developing Nature Positive roadmaps for the built environment and energy sectors. He was a co-author of the Natural Capital Protocol.

Mantis Consulting is a Belgian based business-to-business consultancy firm for energy, sustainability, and marine ecology. Mantis experts provide support in evaluating, monitoring, and improving your sustainability strategy, from an ESG materiality assessment to the implementation of sustainable business practices and certification. To enhance marine ecosystems, Mantis leverages cutting-edge ecological and sustainability modeling to identify optimal project sites and develops cost-effective techniques for data-driven decision-making in nature enhancing projects.