LIFE KEY - Biodiversity Metrics
LIFE Key is a platform that brings together, in a single environment, all the information concerning the company’s relationship with biodiversity. Through the platform, users can record and monitor:
- Business and Biodiversity management indicators;
- Data for calculating the Biodiversity Pressure Index (BPI);
- Data for calculating Biodiversity Positive Performance (BPP).
Designed for organizations of all sizes and sectors, LIFE Key provides robust metrics that support decision-making and guide investments in effective biodiversity conservation actions. The platform also enables the automatic generation of a variety of reports, ranging from detailed technical documents to concise executive summaries, making it easier to communicate biodiversity performance to different audiences.
Supporting Target 15 of the Global Biodiversity Framework
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2022, established 23 global targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Among them, Target 15 is specifically addressed to the business and financial sectors.
Target 15 encourages companies and financial institutions to continuously identify, assess, monitor and disclose their biodiversity-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across their operations, value chains and portfolios. It also promotes the progressive reduction of negative impacts while increasing positive contributions to biodiversity conservation.
The LIFE System provides a practical, science-based solution to help organizations meet these requirements. Through LIFE Key, organizations can measure, manage and report their biodiversity performance using consistent indicators, recognized metrics and auditable data, supporting compliance with the expectations of CBD Target 15.
Understanding and effectively managing biodiversity-related risks has become essential to ensuring business resilience and long-term success. In this context, LIFE Key offers a clear and objective approach to assessing impacts, setting targets, tracking performance and strengthening organizations’ commitment to biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity management in a single, online, and collaborative environment
Your company can perform a Biodiversity Management diagnosis in 3 modules:
- Biodiversity Pressure – quantifies and monitors 5 environmental aspects related to biodiversity loss;
- Biodiversity Performance – quantitatively and qualitatively evaluates the conservation actions implemented;
- LIFE Standards – shows the organization’s level of commitment to biodiversity.
Get access to reports that help your company make decisions, providing a basis for adapting processes and allocating resources effectively.
Updated in real time, you can export reports of different types of data generated by the system, in detailed or summarized form, facilitating presentation to stakeholders.
The tool offers a differentiated panel for including and controlling information about your company.
Have the autonomy to manage your company’s users, providing access with a unique login and password, with different levels of permission, ensuring more security and control over who edits or views your data.
Local, national, and international conservation priorities are considered, as well as specificities of the region where you company is located.
Certification is granted by accredited Certifying Bodies, through independent audits. Results are publicly available.
Calculates and enables biodiversity credits complementary to decarbonization targets and ESG agenda.
The certification provides biodiversity metrics compatible with the main financial indices and corporate sustainability initiatives.
LIFE Certification for
Business and Biodiversity
A concrete solution that leads companies that voluntarily assume their responsibility for the conservation of biodiversity.
Get this recognition and incorporate this competitive differential into your brand.
Biodiversity in the ESG agenda
Positioning your brand on ESG themes generates value and increases consumers and stakeholders trust in your organization.
Energy efficiency, use of natural resources, waste management, climate change and biodiversity are some of the criteria considered in the environmental (E) aspect of the ESG.
Investors, financial analysts and investment funds are seeking companies that have outstanding practices in the environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) areas.
Having robust and reliable parameters is necessary to obtain concrete answers and highlight your company in the current global demands for corporate strategic positioning.
More than 50% of the global economy depends on natural resources. The consequences of biodiversity loss directly influence social and economic indicators. Without biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides, the costs of business operations would become unfeasible.
LIFE Key consolidates the indices of greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, land use and occupation, energy consumption, waste generated and waste recycled. In addition to these basic environmental management parameters, LIFE Key offers LIFE metrics on biodiversity performance, which reflect the balance between the pressure exerted by the company’s activities and the implemented conservation actions.
LIFE Key provides a solid base for implementing ESG environmental parameters. It substantiates the organization’s genuine commitment to the 2030 ONU Agenda.
In addition, it assists in decision making and the optimization of investments by measuring the “biodiversity balance”, evaluating the results of conservation projects and their capacity to compensate or even surpass the company’s pressure on biodiversity. Additionally, when the company is “nature positive” in this balance, it can be recognized through LIFE Certification (granted by a third party audit).
This is the perfect timing for companies to become protagonists in the implementation of concrete and effective biodiversity conservation actions to guarantee the longevity of their businesses, reduce risks to operations and stand out in the global market.
LIFE Key guides companies on this journey, optimizing decisions and investments, enabling transparency in communication and data disclosure and facilitating communication with stakeholders.
Clients
Compatible with different
types and sizes of organizations
Become a
LIFE Consultant
Be a reference consultant in business and biodiversity. Offer consultancy for using the LIFE Key platform and preparing companies for LIFE Certification for Business and Biodiversity. Add this competitive differential to yours and your client’s portfolio.
Information made available in dynamic data panels, allowing the company to monitor its performance in real time.
A quick way to monitor your company’s situation in relation to the pressure exerted on biodiversity, conservation actions carried out and compliance with management indicators.