Organization for Biodiversity Certificates

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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.2 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Organization for Biodiversity Certificates   (OBC)

    EU Transparency Register

    577618553153-31 First registered on 06 Mar 2024

    Goals / Remit

    $700 billion a year between now and 2030… According to the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), this is the finance gap we have to fill to start building “a world of living in harmony with nature where, by 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people.”
    Some urgent actions must in fact be implemented by 2030, including,
    - Restore 30% of all Degraded Ecosystems (Target 2 of the GBF)
    - Conserve 30% of Land, Waters and Seas (Target 3)
    - Reduce Pollution to Levels That Are Not Harmful to Biodiversity (Target 7)
    - Enhance Biodiversity and Sustainability in Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (Target 10).
    Some of them have been included in the European regulation on nature restoration and the China National Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for instance.
    Biodiversity/nature certificates/credits are today considered a promising tool t (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    Regulation on the Restoration of Nature
    Biodiversity Strategy
    Carbon Certification Removal Framework
    CSRD (ESRS 4 - EFRAG)

    Address

    Head Office
    4, square Claude Debussy
    Paris 75017 - 75017
    FRANCE
    EU Office
    4, square Claude Debussy
    Paris 75017 - 75017
    FRANCE

    Website

    www.obiocert.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    10%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    The OBC Bureau is made of volunteers from member companies and I am the only one specialized on public affairs. This explains the very low number indicated.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Biodiversity Credit Alliance - https://www.biodiversitycreditalliance.org/
    International Advisory Panel for Biodiversity credits - https://iapbiocredits.org/

    Member organisations

    https://www.obiocert.com/our-members/
    + EcoAct and Reforest'Action

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    94,167€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Member's contribution

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Other financial info

    In 2022/2023, we only received 10 000€ from the Lemarchand Foundation, to fund the work of the OBC Methodological Consortium (who is independant from us - organized around the French National Museum of Natural History)

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    LinkedIn posts

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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