04.10.2023

Roadmap published on biodiversity

Festa member associations met at a Deigla meeting today where we had a select group of experts discuss biodiversity and how it affects Icelandic business. The meeting presented a new Roadmap that Festa has been working on in recent months, which addresses the role of business in protecting biodiversity. A large and diverse group of experts from business and academia contributed to this work.

The purpose of the Roadmap is to compile a brief overview of biodiversity in order to support Icelandic businesses in tackling this important task, as sustainability reporting is developing in such a way that there will be further requirements to disclose impacts on biodiversity.

The speakers at the meeting were Rannveig Anna Guicharnaud, Team Leader in Deloitte's Sustainability Team, Jón Ragnar Guðmundsson, Sustainability Specialist at Landsbankinn, Tryggvi Stefánsson, CTO at Svarmi, and Snorri Sigurðsson, Director of Nature Conservation at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. The meeting was chaired by Rakel Sævarsdóttir, who sits on the board of Festa and has led this work on behalf of the company.