Businesses can both contribute to and benefit from sharing open data on biodiversity. Many companies make use of free and open location-specific data and information through GBIF to support evidence-based decision-making and inform corporate responses to new reporting requirements for biodiversity. Meanwhile, a growing network of private enterprises use GBIF as a platform for sharing data collected during their operations, often closing gaps in global knowledge of biodiversity.

The combined value of these activities helps businesses and financial institutions to reduce biodiversity-related risks and to increase their positive impacts toward Target 15 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Businesses sharing biodiversity data via GBIF

The GBIF network of data-publishing institutions shares more than 100,000 datasets from thousands of institutions worldwide, but data from business makes up just a small fraction of the total.

Dozens of companies have started filling this gap and driving positive change by opening up access to biodiversity data they collect through their operations. Sharing data from their impact assessments, project disclosures, and ongoing surveying and monitoring programmes increases transparency, reduces their risks and supports wider research and decision-making from local to global scales. Learn who's sharing biodiversity data, contributing to open science, and generating positive impacts on biodiversity.

Which companies are sharing data on biodiversity?