Learning about Nature and Biodiversity

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The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business are offering three FREE webinars, aimed at a business audience, who are curious about nature and biodiversity links to business activity, and want to gain sufficient knowledge to be able to move forward in their business planning. They may be especially useful for small and medium-sized businesses.

The webinars come on the back of findings from two surveys undertaken in 2022 and 2024 of British senior business decision makers to find out how they think about, or are seeking to integrate nature and biodiversity, into their business activities. The report contains information on the differences between nature and biodiversity, why both dependencies and impacts are relevant, and introduces some tools and frameworks that can be used. We encourage all businesses (no matter how mature your thinking is around nature and biodiversity) to read it.

Each webinar addresses key aspects of the links between business, nature and biodiversity, and is offered at two different times on each date to increase the probability of their being a time to suit you.

You can find full details of the survey results, and all the webinars, on our website.

In this webinar a natural science introduction to nature, biodiversity and eco-systems will be provided, along with an explanation of how those aspects impact upon business operations. The ways in which business may depend upon nature and the ways business impacts on nature will be outlined using examples from different industry sectors.

Your facilitators for the webinars are Professor Jan Bebbington, Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and Dr Neytullah Ciftci Research Associate in Business and Biodiversity, the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business.