As we move into a greener, more resilient future, green business and biodiversity protection have become essential to boost competitiveness and ensure long-term stability.
Businesses, local authorities, and other key actors in this transition need tools, knowledge, and guidance to create jobs, support sustainable growth, and protect vital ecosystems.
From eco-management to restoring natural habitats, from sustainable supply chains to integrating biodiversity into strategies and planning, the EU is here to support the path to green and nature-positive business.
From eco-management to public procurement to sustainable supply chains to championing valuable natural capital, the EU is here to support the path to green business.
From restoring natural habitats to integrating biodiversity into business strategies and land use planning, the EU is committed to helping protect nature while fostering innovation and prosperity.
Green Business
A place where businesses, policymakers, and experts discuss how companies can protect biodiversity and contribute to EU environmental goals.
Provides indicators and data on eco-innovation performance across EU countries, helping users understand trends and compare progress in sustainable innovation.
A system developed by the European Commission that helps organisations manage, monitor, and improve their environmental performance.
Provides methods and guidance to assess the environmental impacts of products and organisations, supporting more informed and sustainable decisions.
Identifies products and services with a reduced environmental impact across their life cycle, helping consumers and businesses make more sustainable choices.
Verifies the performance of environmental technologies through independent assessment, helping demonstrate their reliability and environmental benefits.
Provides free expert advisory support to help public and private project promoters prepare green investment projects and make them ready for financing.
Provides guidance, criteria and examples to help public authorities include environmental considerations when purchasing goods, services and works.
Brings together stakeholders to support the implementation of EU rules that make products more sustainable and circular across their life cycle.
Provides a framework and indicators to assess and report the sustainability performance of buildings throughout their life cycle.
Supports investment in actions that restore and protect ecosystems by recognising measurable improvements in nature.
A joint initiative by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee
Nature and biodiversity
Provides guidance and resources supporting the implementation of EU rules to prevent deforestation linked to products placed on the EU market.
Provides guidance and resources supporting the implementation of EU rules to reduce packaging waste and improve recyclability.
Provides guidance and resources supporting the implementation of EU rules to restore ecosystems and biodiversity.
Tracks the implementation of EU action plans designed to protect threatened pollinator species.
Brings together experts and stakeholders to share knowledge and best practices for managing Natura 2000 sites across Europe’s different biogeographical regions.
Provides information and resources about Europe’s threatened wild pollinators and actions to support their conservation.
Helps you decide what you need to do if you work with genetic resources or digital sequence information and are affected by ABS rules.
Provides information and stakeholder discussions supporting the 2026 review of the EU laws that protect habitats, species and biodiversity across Europe.
Provides information on events organised across Europe to support the implementation of EU nature legislation and share practical experience and best practices.
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