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The Centre for Business Leadership on Nature Restoration being developed by UNGCNI in Chennai is a pioneering initiative aimed at significantly deepening and transforming the private sector’s engagements on biodiversity conservation. Through active collaboration and support from visionary business leaders, and government agencies such as the National Biodiversity Authority and State Biodiversity Boards, the Center will enhance action, monitoring, and reporting on biodiversity-positive initiatives through ESG, CSR and corporate philanthropy. UN GCNI is currently in the process of establishing the Centre in Chennai, through an establishment grant from Refex Industries Limited.

Mission of the Centre

The Centre aims to support businesses and governments to achieve local, national and global commitments including as part of corporate plans and national commitments made as part of key Multilateral Environmental Agreements including especially United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

Objectives of the Centre

• Serve as a knowledge sharing platform for strategic integration of biodiversity-sensitive practices into business strategy and operations.
• Support corporates to enhance the quality of existing and upcoming compliance/disclosures expected at the national and global levels with regards to biodiversity.
• Support multi-stakeholder dialogue for pragmatic policy directions which contribute to better coherence between business and biodiversity conservation objectives.
• Enable better linkages of private sector action with global and national priorities and targets related to biodiversity conservation.