Through this alliance, the two entities reinforce their joint objective of promoting economic development that integrates the conservation of biodiversity.

Through this alliance, the two entities reinforce their joint objective of promoting economic development that integrates the conservation of biodiversity.

Elena Pita, director of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and José Alberto González-Ruiz, Secretary General of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), today signed the adhesion of the CEOE as a strategic partner of the Spanish Business and Biodiversity Initiative (IEEB). This signing confirms the alignment of objectives of both entities, whose purpose is to promote, together with the business sector, economic development that integrates the conservation of biodiversity.

The CEOE joins the IEEB as a strategic partner, collaborating in the dissemination of the project and facilitating the link with the companies belonging to the business association. This adhesion will serve to promote synergies and collaborations that promote actions in the field of biodiversity protection and conservation.

On the part of the Biodiversity Foundation, this agreement involves the incorporation of a new entity to all the activities of the IEEB, promoting, among others, its participation in the actions derived from the Community of Practice, with a special focus on the post-2020 framework, in activities aimed at the transformation of the business sector and in promoting the integration of biodiversity issues into the decision-making processes of companies and financial institutions.

In this way, cooperation between both entities is strengthened, the exchange of experiences and knowledge between economic sectors and public institutions to promote actions in order to accelerate the private contribution to achieve the objectives of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and international and national Plans and Strategies for biodiversity conservation.

With this adhesion, the IEEB advances in its objective of facilitating a framework for cooperation between the business sector, the financial sector, academia, the third sector and the Public Administration, joining forces for the improvement and maintenance of biodiversity and natural capital in Spain.