Biodiversity loss and corporate commitment to the UN Global Compact

Abstract

Companies operating in fields that have a significant impact on biodiversity often perform poorly in terms of their managerial response to this challenge. However, those businesses that commit to supporting the UN Global Compact’s principles perform significantly better in terms of biodiversity policies or systems than a wider sample of global, publicly listed, Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) All-World Developed (AWD) Index companies.