The Biodiversity Foundation supports the Natural Capital Summit initiative, a meeting organized by Ecoacsa, the CONAMA Foundation and the Global Nature Foundation

The Biodiversity Foundation supports the Natural Capital Summit initiative, a meeting organized by Ecoacsa, the CONAMA Foundation and the Global Nature Foundation that is held in Madrid and that brings together a large part of the environmental business sector of national and international stature. The event seeks to bring together Spanish society and the business sector to show them the most innovative trends in environmental matters and serve as a source of the different strategies that can be developed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by biodiversity.

The meeting was inaugurated by the director of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Sonia Castañeda, who was accompanied, among others, by the deputy director of the Biodiversity Unit of the Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission, Laure Ledoux.

Castañeda stressed the potential of the term Natural Capital, “as an asset of nature that generates not only benefits for people but also for companies. If economics has found compelling reasons to take action in the fight against climate change, it can also find them to conserve biodiversity.”

The main objective of this conference is to raise awareness in Spain of the concept of Natural Capital, the opportunities offered by its integration into organizations through the presentation of the different experiences of the participating business leaders and the different initiatives that are being developed both inside and outside the Spanish territory.

The Natural Capital Summit has the support of the European Commission, the backing of Spanish institutions of the central, regional and local administration, as well as Forética, the only representative in Spain of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Association for Sustainability and the Progress of Societies (ASYPS).