Side Event
Biodiversity: conservation, sustainable use and responsible business
Organizer
Natura Industry - A Brazilian company that enjoys a leadership position on the Brazilian CF&T (cosmetics, fragrances and toiletries) market.
Date and Time
28 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15
Natura will invite representatives from communities, scientists, corporates and governments, from Brazil and other countries, to debate in its own space, alliances, partnerships and alternatives to reconcile conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with responsible business, in accordance with the agenda for the Eight Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of CBD. The company concentrates its production, logistics and research in Cajamar, State of São Paulo, in a complex with 81,500 square meters of site area and 643,000 square meters of land area. Controlled by Brazilian investors, Natura had, at the end of 2004, 3,177 employees in Brazil and 378 abroad – in Argentina, Chile and Peru. In the year 2005, Natura begans a new business model, by a store in Paris - France. Natura uses in its products raw materials originating from nature, such as extracts, oils and compounded materials. The areas that supply raw materials developed with Brazilian or exotic species cultivated in Brazil are selected by Natura based on traceability and sustainability in order to ensure a minimum environmental impact. The preservation of biodiversity – genetic diversity, diversity of species, ecosystems and processes of natural forests – is stimulated when it provides benefits and products that can generate economic resources, not depleting the environment and strengthening local social relations.