Biq Forum

the biq forum is a collaborative effort to develop a standard framework for measuring biodiversity and ecosystem service footprints at scales of use to businesses, internationally. the methodology will be “open source” and free to use. it will be linked to a compact that commits signatories to measuring and improving their biodiversity and ecosystem service impacts. the biq forum was founded by wwf-uk, adas uk ltd and green growth international (ggi) ltd. we are in the consultative phase of this project, which began in february 2012 and could extend to 2014. 29th september 2012. biq forum publishes the 50 page biq consultation report following the public consultation held in june 2012. based on the findings within the report, the biq forum has concluded the following: that there is a current requirement to enable the more comprehensive and material measurement, monitoring and reporting of corporate impacts on biodiversity that needs to be resolved that the development of an initial wou