Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government who are the representatives from the business and finance sector on the business advisory group set up under the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework; and what is the group's remit.

In pursuit of high ambition outcomes for CBD COP15, Defra engages with a range of UK stakeholders including representatives from academia, the private sector, NGOs, and other interested parties, to gain valuable input from a wide range of sources.

As part of this engagement, a business advisory group has met several times to consider the draft global biodiversity framework, its implementation across the private sector, and the role of business in mainstreaming biodiversity.

Representatives of the business advisory group are:

• The Biodiversity Consultancy
• BP (independently but also on behalf of the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, UKBBF)
• Business for Nature coalition
• Danone (independently but also on behalf of the One Planet Business for Biodiversity coalition, OP2B)
• The Environment Bank
• Firmenich (independently but also on behalf of the One Planet Business for Biodiversity coalition, OP2B)
• FNZ UK
• JP Morgan
• National Hair and Beauty Federation (NHBF)
• Scottish and Southern Electricity
• Sound and Fair
• Standard Charter
• Tengri
• Unilever
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• World Ocean Council
• WSP