Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship

October 28, 2025

October 28, 2025

09h30 - 17h00

09h30 - 17h00

BIOPOLIS/CIBIO - Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Center, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, R. do Crasto, nº 765, 4485-684 Vairão.

BIOPOLIS/CIBIO - Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Center, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, R. do Crasto, nº 765, 4485-684 Vairão.

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Conference

Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship

Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship Conference on good business practices for biodiversity and water

The growing degradation of natural ecosystems and the accelerating loss of biodiversity represent urgent challenges that require a collective response. The entire business sector, as an agent of impact, has a fundamental role to play in building solutions that improve the relationship between the corporate world and nature.

Recognizing this responsibility, the conference "Companies and Nature: An Essential Relationship" aims to promote reflection on the role of companies in preserving nature and to present concrete examples of good practices already underway. The initiative also aims to raise awareness among companies with a direct impact on the territory, companies with an indirect impact on the territory through their consumption and industry associations of the importance of integrating nature into business strategies as a factor of resilience, innovation and sustainability.

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Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship

Program

Check-in | Welcome-Coffee

09h30

09h30

Opening and welcome Host and GRACE

  • Isabel Barros, President of GRACE, representing Sonae, SGPS
  • Pedro Beja, Knowledge Partner of the Nature Cluster, representing BIOPOLIS/CIBIO
10h00

10h00

Companies for Water and Nature: Why act now?

  • Nuno Ferrand, Director of CIBIO - Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources and of the Associated Laboratory InBIO - Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
10h30

10h30

What impact companies have on water and biodiversity, and how to mitigate it: Presentation of companies' Good Practices

Moderator: Francisco Taveira Pinto, Director of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geo-Resources (DECG), Coordinator of the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Unit of FEUP's Institute for Sustainable Construction (ICS).

  • Fátima Borges, Director of Sustainability and Social Responsibility at Águas de Portugal
  • Rui Calouro, Regenerative Agriculture Manager - BEL Portugal's Happy Cows Milk Program
  • Fernando Coelho, Lipor's Environmental Education Technician
10h40

10h40

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