{"id":9108,"date":"2023-05-19T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emr-online.com\/?p=9108"},"modified":"2023-05-19T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:14:07","slug":"pipelife-greener-manufacturing-biodiversity-programm-at-pipelife-takes-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emr-online.com\/pipelife-greener-manufacturing-biodiversity-programm-at-pipelife-takes-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipelife – Greener Manufacturing: Biodiversity Programm at Pipelife Takes Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2021, the Wienerberger group \u2014 a leading manufacturer of building materials \u2014 started its Biodiversity Program at each of more than 200 production sites. As part of the group, all of Pipelife’s business units have fully embraced the program, and our biodiversity experts and enthusiasts agreed to share their successes as well as the plans ahead.<\/p>\n
MOVING AHEAD OF POLICIES<\/strong><\/p>\n The global awareness of wide-scale biodiversity loss has been growing in recent years. Already in May 2020, the European Union adopted its\u00a0biodiversity strategy<\/a>, aiming to expand the network of Europe’s protected areas, restore degraded ecosystems and reduce pollution.<\/p>\n Another crucial biodiversity victory was achieved in December 2022, when the agreement to protect 30% of Earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas and inland waters was reached during the\u00a0UN Biodiversity Conference<\/a>\u00a0(COP 15) in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n Yet, the enforcement and compliance with the recently adopted policies are still largely missing, raising concerns among environmental organizations and local communities.<\/p>\n “Biodiversity is difficult to measure and evaluate, and implementing new legislative measures takes time,” admits Rena De Mey, Biodiversity Project Leader at Wienerberger. “However, as a corporation, we didn’t want to wait for national and international regulations to catch up. We wanted to act now because immediate action is needed to ensure a sustainable future. We looked at what we, as a company, can do and realized we own a lot of property \u2014 our production sites. And we started there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n During the last two years, the central biodiversity team has visited nearly every production site within the group, assessing the current situation and helping devise a tailored local biodiversity action plan together with the local management and employees.<\/p>\n “The first thing we do, we look at the square meters at each site we own and how much of that area consists of unsealed surfaces,” Rena explains. “All the areas that are unhardened or unsealed, we aim to make them as biodiverse as possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n