Territories and businesses reconciled by biodiversity: how to transform local actions into measurable value

Biodiversity is now establishing itself as a new common language between territories and businesses.
In the face of climate urgency, the erosion of life, and the increasing power of regulatory frameworks (CSRD, TNFD, SNB), it is no longer a mere environmental issue: it is becoming a strategic asset, bearing meaning, resilience, and economic value.

On the ground, initiatives are multiplying: bee hives, eco-grazing, reforestation, renaturation, ecological continuities.
Yet, despite their positive impact, these actions remain hardly visible, rarely comparable, and difficult to value on a large scale.

Local biodiversity actions: a proliferation still poorly structured

Across France and Europe, local authorities and businesses are implementing concrete actions in favor of life:

• Installation of bee hives and pollinator habitats

• Planting of hedges, groves, and urban forests

• Eco-grazing for extensive maintenance of spaces

• De-sealing and renaturation of soils

• Protection of wetlands and ecological networks

These initiatives generate measurable ecosystem services: climate regulation, carbon storage, soil improvement, water resilience, human well-being.

However, in most cases, the data associated with these actions remain fragmented, carried out by multiple actors, without aggregation or a global reading.

👉 Result: an underestimated environmental value, difficult to integrate into territorial or business strategies.

Measuring biodiversity: a recognized scientific challenge

Unlike carbon, biodiversity cannot be reduced to a single unit.
Recent work converges towards a multi-indicator approach, combining:

• species abundance (MSA – Mean Species Abundance),

• ecosystem integrity,

• pressure on habitats,

• restoration potential.

Methodologies like Global Biodiversity Score, STAR metric, or the first Biodiversity Impact Credits aim to make impacts comparable and exploitable by decision-makers.

This evolution addresses a clearly identified need: to objectify positive impacts, not just to reduce negative impacts.

An increasingly structuring political and economic framework

Biodiversity and public policies

The National Biodiversity Strategy 2030 sets ambitious goals for habitat restoration and mobilization of economic actors.

At the international scale, the Kunming-Montreal global framework adopted at COP15 commits states and businesses to nature-positive trajectories.

Biodiversity and the economy

According to the IPBES, biodiversity degradation could represent up to 25 trillion dollars in annual economic losses globally.

Conversely, investments in nature are identified as levers for economic and territorial resilience (World Bank, 2024).