This publication provides insights on biodiversity and its links with businesses, maps seven major sectors for its impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and benchmarks best practices on biodiversity management globally in those sectors. At the end it provides a detailed and informative roadmap for implementing biodiversity management in any company. The publication promotes biodiversity, not as a problem, but as an opportunity to help decision-making processes and achieve broad social and economic goals.

India is an agrarian economy with the agriculture sector as a key contributor to GDP. India is one of the centres of origin for many valuable crops and is considered as a global agriculture powerhouse. Operations within the entire agriculture value chain- production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste, not only have impacts on biodiversity but these impacts pose a threat to businesses. The ‘Guidebook for Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Indian Agriculture Sector’ provides insights into inter-linkages of Indian agri-business and biodiversity as well as the relevant National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs).

India is one of the mega biodiversity countries supporting major forest types varying from alpine pastures in Himalayas to temperate, sub-tropical, tropical forests and mangroves in coastal areas. The forestry sector in India covers industries like Wood & Furniture, Pulp & Paper, Non-wood Forest Produce (NWFPs), Fuelwood, etc. The major source of raw material is forest, farm forestry and social forestry. Each industry in the forestry sector has its own implications with respect to its dependency and impact on biodiversity. The ‘Guidebook for Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Indian Forestry Sector’ provides insights into inter-linkages of Indian business operating in the forestry sector and biodiversity as well as the relevant National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs).

Mining in India dates back to the Indus valley civilization and the sector has grown huge with technology and modernisation. India is rich in many on-shore and off-shore minerals and is a large resource base for key minerals. The impacts and dependencies of mining activity on biodiversity and ecosystem services varies throughout the life cycle of mining and is also based on the methodology of ore extraction i.e. open cast mine or underground. The impact of mining sector also depends on the life of mine operation and impacts can occur over a period of time along with the geography of the area. The ‘Guidebook for Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Indian Mining Sector’ provides insights into inter-linkages of Indian business operating in the mining sector and biodiversity as well as relevant National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs)