Cosentino, a manufacturer of surfaces for architecture and design, has joined the “Biodiversity Statement”, a letter promoted by Business for Nature, a global coalition of more than 100 partner organisations as well as forward-thinking companies.
With less than 100 days until the UN Biodiversity COP16, the business statement is described as an urgent appeal from businesses to governments for their immediate leadership to strengthen – not weaken – the policies, incentives and legislation that will drive the necessary business action to halt and reverse nature loss this decade.
In December 2022, 196 governments adopted the Biodiversity Plan (also called the Global Biodiversity Framework) in Montreal, providing a whole of society approach with a set of goals and targets to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. 18 months after the adoption of the Biodiversity Plan, businesses are calling on governments to move faster on its implementation.
The statement delivers five recommendations for nature policies that:
Make sure business and financial actors protect nature and restore degraded ecosystems
Ensure sustainable resource use and management to reduce negative environmental impacts
Value and embed nature in decision-making and disclosure
Align all financial flows to transition to a nature-positive, net zero and equitable economy
Adopt or strengthen ambitious global agreements to address key nature loss challenges
Sustainability management continues to be a strategic pillar and one of the areas with the greatest investment in Cosentino, the company says. In 2023, the company says it invested nearly €30m in environmental, health and safety assets, and €13.5m in environmental control and improvement. This commitment reportedly translates into a further reduction of its carbon footprint by 1.3% as compared to 2022, and by 10.3% compared to 2018, the base year for measurement.
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