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Question 1. What would in your opinion be the main added value of this IPBES assessment on business and biodiversity? How can this report best support efforts to understand and monitor the dependency and impact of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people?

Question 2. What do you think about the following draft chapter outline for the assessment? Would you have an alternative outline?

• Chapter 1: Overview
• Chapter 2: How do businesses depend on biodiversity?
• Chapter 3: How do businesses impact biodiversity?
• Chapter 4: Measuring impact and dependence: Indicators and metrics
• Chapter 5: Implementation: options for action, opportunities and challenges

 Question 3. Could you please provide a few bullet points for each chapter on what you would consider as key issues for that chapter

The assessment will focus on identifying:

1. Categories of business dependence on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, the materiality of that dependence and implications for risk management;
2. Categories of business impact on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, both direct (land-use change and other habitat changes, including through fragmentation, water degradation and extraction, overexploitation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and increased risk of invasive alien species) and indirect (e.g., through trade, indirect land-use change or other substitution effects and other aspects of telecoupling, including those mediated through supply chains), the materiality of the impact and implications for risk management.