Business and Biodiversity Assessment Directory

This page is designed to help navigate through all the documents of the business and biodiversity assessment, such as the data management reports, figures and all accompanying documents.

Prepared by Renske Gudde - TSU for knowledge and data

Reviewed by Aidin Niamir - Head of the Technical Support Unit of Knowledge and Data

For any inquires please contact aidin.niamir@senckenberg.de

Version: 1.1
Last Updated: September 7th, 2026

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17960225

Suggested citations for the full report, SPM and individual chapters

• Suggested citations

Full report

• Full report

Summary for policymakers

• SPM
• The figures, tables and captions used in the SPM
• Translations of the SPM in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish

Chapter 1: Setting the scene

• Chapter 1
• Figures, tables and captions
• Data management report - Setting the scene

Chapter 2: How does business depend on biodiversity?

• Chapter 2
• Figures, tables, captions and data management reports
• Data management report - Literature review
• Data management report - Figures 2.2, 2.6, 2.8 and Table 2.5

Chapter 3: How does business impact biodiversity?

• Chapter 3
• Figures, tables and captions
• Data management report - Review of biodiversity assessment approaches
• Data management report - Review of cross-sector biodiversity impact estimates

Chapter 4: Approaches for measurement of business dependencies and impacts on biodiversity

• Chapter 4
• Figures, tables and captions
• Data management report - Snowball search of the academic field of biodiversity accounting
• Data management report - Paper selection to identify approaches and families of methods addressing biodiversity impacts
• Data management report - Approaches for measurement of business impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystems

Chapter 5: Businesses as key actors in transformative change: options for action

• Chapter 5
• Figures, tables and captions
• Data management report - Literature reviews for Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Creating an enabling environment for business: options for action by governments, the financial sector, Indigenous people and local communities and civil society

• Chapter 6
• Tables and captions
• Data management report - Literature review of the civil society actors
• Data management report - Systematic review of governments’ actions
• Data management report - The role of IPLC actors in transforming the enabling environment

Glossary

• BBA glossary

Underlying bibliographic data and research materials

• BBA Zotero library

Linked Open Data

• Business and Biodiversity Assessment in Linked Open Data

ILK Dialogue Workshop Reports

• Report of the Indigenous and local knowledge dialogue workshop for the draft scoping report of the IPBES business and biodiversity assessment
• Report of the first Indigenous and local knowledge dialogue workshop for the IPBES business and biodiversity assessment
• Report of the second Indigenous and local knowledge dialogue workshop for the IPBES business and biodiversity assessment

Scoping report

• Scoping report for the business and biodiversity assessment

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