Abstract
In 2005, the England Business and Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Group (BBSIG) asked Zoe Cokeliss to produce a desk based assessment of the tools available to UK business for the management of their biodiversity impacts. This work was a preliminary assessment of available tools, and was not intended as a complete picture of all the tools currently available to various sectors. As a result of the preliminary nature of the work, comments were not sought from individual companies and initiatives mentioned in the report. Owing to the rapid rate of change in levels of activity within the business and biodiversity community, the information needs updating to include more recent schemes and emerging issues.