Biodiversity footprint assessment is a difficult exercise, but is a necessary first step to understand its impact and then set up a relevant action plan. It is also somehow an awareness exercise. Adding an exercise to assess the dependencies to ecosystemic services is also key.

Setting objectives to preserve and restore biodiversity at global level is very difficult. It is then even more difficult to do it at the company scale, but mandatory to have a chance to reduce the pressures on biodiversity and moving towards biodiversity regeneration/restoration.

New forms of business need then to be invented to fit into planetary boundaries while ensuring human well-being and embracing a systemic vision. It also depends on civil society choices, regulations, NGOs, science…