Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning

A Guide to Meaningful Engagement

Margaret O'Gorman

• Publisher: Island Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781610919418
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Industries that drive economic growth and support our comfortable modern lifestyles have exploited natural resources to do so. But now there's growing understanding that business can benefit from a better relationship with the environment. Leading corporations have begun to leverage nature-based remediation, restoration, and enhanced lands management to meet a variety of business needs, such as increasing employee engagement and establishing key performance indicators for reporting and disclosures. Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning offers fresh insights for corporations and environmental groups looking to create mutually beneficial partnerships that use conservation action to address business challenges and realize meaningful environmental outcomes.Recognizing the long history of mistrust between corporate action and environmental effort, Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning begins by explaining how to identify priorities that will yield a beneficial relationship between a company and nonprofit. Next, O'Gorman offers steps for creating ecologically-focused projects that address key business needs. Chapters highlight existing projects with different scales of engagement, emphasizing that headline-generating, multimillion dollar commitments are not necessarily the most effective approach. Myriad case studies featuring programs from habitat restoration to environmental educational initiatives at companies like Bridgestone USA, General Motors, and CRH Americas are included to help spark new ideas.With limited government funding available for conservation and increasing competition for grant support, corporate efforts can fill a growing need for environmental stewardship while also providing business benefits. Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning presents a comprehensive approach for effective engagement between the public and private sector, encouraging pragmatic partnerships that benefit us all.

INDEX

accessibility, 153, 163

activist shareholders, 54–55

Addison, Prue, 9, 73, 79–81

After Greenwashing (Bowen), 67, 76

AFWA. See Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

Aichi Biodiversity Targets, 159–160

Alaska, 34–35

Alberta, Canada, 146

Amazon, 6

American Carbon Registry, 156

American Chemistry Council, 64

America’s Pledge on Climate, 223

Anaconda Mine complex (Montana), 181–182

Anglo American, 34–35

Apple, 6

Arcelor Mittal, 1–3, 20–21

Archibald, Judy, 190

Ashland Inc., 157–158

assessments, 92–93

Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), 39

Atlanta, Georgia, 51, 125, 126, 186

Atlantic City Electric (ACE), 205–206

attenuation, natural, 32–33

Auburn Hills, Michigan, 152–153

avoidance, mitigation hierarchy and, 68–69

B Corp certification, 5

Backyard Bird Count, 155

Baltimore, Maryland, 166

Baltimore Gas & Electric, 138–139

BASF, 182–184, 186

bat boxes, 75–76, 75, 146, 157–158

bats, 39–40, 156

Bayer, 194

BBOP. See Business and Biodiversity Offset Program

BEECH (Bridgestone Environmental Education Classroom and Habitat), 33, 175–176, 200

Bent, Tim, 33, 86, 127, 175–176

best management practices (BMP), 164–165

BHP, 6

Big Green, 66

The Big Pivot (Winston), 6, 8–9, 77

biodiversity, 8–9, 14–16, 27–30, 208–215

Biodiversity and Climate Change (Lovejoy), 215

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service issues management, 64

biodiversity risk, 26

biological coverage, monitoring and, 151

bioswales, 43–44

birdhouses, 74–76

Birdlife International, 51–52, 63, 65

Birdtrack, 154

Blackrock Investment Institute, 54

BMP. See Best management practices

Boeing Company, 10–13, 233

Bowen, Frances, 67, 76

Bowen, H. R., 3

BP, 6

Bradburn, John, 74–76, 75, 78–79

Brazil, 194

Bridgestone Americas. See also BEECH (Bridgestone Environmental Education Classroom and Habitat)

education and, 175–176

human resources and, 199–200

regulatory constraints and, 122–123

remediation as business driver and, 32–33

success of programs of, 233

timing and, 86

Brownfields program, 31

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 189–190

Building Conservation Trust program, 221–222

Burlington County, New Jersey, 157–158

Burns Harbor, Indiana, 1–3, 20–21

Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP), 69

business drivers

biodiversity impact mitigation, 27–30

climate change efforts, 42–43

community engagement, 49–52

corporate citizenship, 24, 47–56

cost savings realization, 44–46

employee engagement, 40–42

framing corporate investment in education, 52–54

government relations, 38–40

management, 24, 37–47

metrics and, 161–162

nature-based solution implementation, 43–44

operational, 24, 25–37

overview of, 23–27, 24, 37–38, 56–57

permit acquisition and renewal and social license to operate, 33–37

remediation remedies, 30–33

reporting and disclosures, sustainability goals, performance metrics, 47–49

SRI funds and activist shareholders, 54–55

supply chains and circular economy, 55–56

talent acquisition, 46–47

Cadomin Quarry (Alberta, Canada), 146–147

Calica quarry (Mexico), 140–141, 141

Calling Amphibian Monitoring Project, 155

Calvados, 36

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 01 An Evolving Relationship
• 02 Understanding Business Drivers
• 03 Scale and Perspective
• 04 The Process
• 05 Obstacles and How to Overcome Them
• 06 Monitoring, Metrics, and Recognition
• 07 Education
• 08 Climate Change
• 09 Building a Culture of Corporate Conservation
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index