About The Global Biodiversity Standard
The Global Biodiversity Standard addresses the challenge of tree planting programs, some of which are inadvertently causing harm to our world’s ecosystems.
It provides assurance that tree planting, habitat restoration and agroforestry practices are protecting, restoring, and enhancing biodiversity.
The Standard applies the tried and tested expertise of the global botanical community, with the knowledge of local communities, to tree planting and restoration sites across the world.
GBS aim at achieving better biodiversity outcome through
- Recognizing projects that have a positive impact on biodiversity
- By publicly recognizing best practice, we will provide incentives for organizations to incorporate a diversity of native species into planting and land management programs.
- Providing assurance to governments, financiers of large-scale tree planting, and the public that initiatives are promoting and protecting biodiversity, not contributing to its decline.
- Providing knowledge, data, and mentoring for policymakers, financiers, brokers, and tree planting groups to develop land management practices that protect, restore and enhance a biodiverse world.
Biodiverse ecosystems supply oxygen, clean air, and water, ensure sustainability for all life forms, and are more resilient to a changing climate or other disasters.
However, the world is currently facing a biodiversity crisis. At least 17,500 of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, representing almost a third of all species.
The Global Biodiversity Standard has been designed to halt this crisis, to promote, protect and enhance a more biodiverse and climate resilient natural world.
