GBIF and business
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.
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Businesses sharing biodiversity data via GBIF
More than 2,600 organizations publish open biodiversity data through the GBIF network, and a growing number of businesses are among them!
By sharing the species occurrence data they collect through impact assessments and ongoing monitoring programmes, these companies increase transparency, reduce their risks and produce positive impacts on research, decision-making and policy targets across all scales from local to global.
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