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Biodiversity is the living fabric of our planet. It sustains our ecosystems, our economies and our societies. We are currently witnessing its accelerated erosion, despite clear scientific warnings. While companies contribute to this erosion, they also have the power to slow it down.

The Act4Nature International podcast gives the floor to companies, scientists, NGOs and engaged networks. Together, we explore the link between economic activity and biodiversity, moving from commitments to concrete action in favour of life.

A new episode every week.

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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC: REFRAMING THE NARRATIVE ON NATURE, FROM IMPACT TO RESILIENCE

episode #8 nov. 2026

After five years of a biodiversity programme mobilising thousands of employees across the world, Schneider Electric made a rare choice: to publicly acknowledge that its approach, whilst deeply grounded in fieldwork, was no longer sufficient — not through failure, but through maturity.
In this episode, Esther Finidori, Chief Sustainability Officer, speaks candidly about this pivotal moment: the limitations of an approach focused solely on biodiversity, the shift towards climate resilience and the economic value of ecosystems, and the field projects — in Xiamen and Tlaxcala — that embody this new narrative. A clear-eyed account, driven by one conviction: measuring biodiversity within companies remains a collective undertaking, still largely to be built.

INVESTING, INSURING, RESTORING: HOW AXA MOBILISES ITS CORE BUSINESSES IN SERVICE OF BIODIVERSITY

episode #7 oct. 2026

According to the AXA Future Risks Report 2025, the risk linked to natural resources and biodiversity is ranked the 6th global risk by experts — stable in the top 10 for several years. Faced with this reality, AXA has chosen to mobilise both its core businesses — insurance and investment — as levers in favour of nature.
A participation in the Fonds de Place Objectif Biodiversité dedicated to Nature-based Solutions, and Restore, a pioneering insurance product co-launched with SCOR to de-risk ecological restoration projects: Silvestre Mazin, Head of Climate and Biodiversity Strategy within AXA’s Sustainable Development division, reflects on these two initiatives, what made them possible, and what they reveal about the role the financial sector can play in the transition.

A BIODIVERSITY ACTION CHARTER: HOW EMERIGE INTEGRATES BIODIVERSITY INTO EVERY REAL ESTATE PROJECT

episode #6 oct. 2026

Soil artificialisation, waterproofing, habitat fragmentation — the construction sector is often singled out for its impacts on biodiversity. But it is also one of the few sectors with the power to reverse the trend at the very heart of the city. Emerige, a real estate developer, has made this conviction the cornerstone of its sustainability strategy by developing a Biodiversity Action Charter deployed across all its projects, and by committing to Act4Nature International since 2022.

Maud Robertson, the group’s CSR Manager, and Antoine Guibourgé, Commercial Director at Osmaïa, which supported Emerige in this approach, tell us how you build a better city, one project at a time.

UNDERSTANDING THE INTERCONNECTIONS OF LIFE TO ACT MORE EFFECTIVELY: THE FRB’S APPROACH

episode #5 oct. 2026

Ecosystem services — pollination, water purification, soil fertility, climate regulation — are the concrete benefits that human societies derive from biodiversity. Their erosion is well documented, and their economic and social consequences are increasingly well quantified. But in the face of urgency, the risk is high of acting too quickly, on fragile foundations, and generating new negative externalities in the process.
This is precisely the role of the Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB): to produce robust knowledge, synthesise the state of the science, and support companies and decision-makers in acting — but acting well. In this episode, Hélène Soubelet, Director of the FRB, reflects on what the concept of ecosystem services reveals about the interconnections of life, on the systematic review methodology the FRB has adopted to structure this knowledge, and on what this means in practice for economic actors.

SNCF AND BIODIVERSITY: INTERWOWEN NETWORKS, TOOLS, FIELDWORK AND SUPPLY CHAINS

episode #4 oct. 2026

Managing the biodiversity footprint of a national rail network is an extraordinarily complex challenge: habitats fragmented by tens of thousands of kilometres of track, an environmental legacy inherited from the early days of the railway industry with contaminated brownfield sites, impacts dispersed across the entire territory, and a supply chain that multiplies these issues further.
Faced with this reality, SNCF has built a structured, tool-based approach: technical systems to reduce habitat fragmentation, transformation of its industrial processes, new track maintenance practices, measurement of its footprint through the Global Biodiversity Score, piloting of the SBTN framework, and more.
In this episode, Anne Guerrero, Deputy Director for Ecological Transition at SNCF Group, takes us through this toolbox: how it was built, and what it delivers on the ground.

REDUCING PESTICIDE USE: MICHELIN‘S CHALLENGE ON ITS NATURAL RUBBER PLANTATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL SITES

episode #3 oct. 2026

Natural rubber is central to Michelin‘s business model — and its plantations, located primarily in South-East Asia and West Africa, sit at the heart of some of the world’s richest ecosystems. Reducing pesticide use by 70% across these plantations by 2030, and achieving zero phytosanitary products across all the group’s industrial sites: these are two commitments made within the Act4Nature International framework, in contexts where nothing — neither regulation nor industry practice — required it.
In this episode, Lina Dechamp, Sustainability Manager at Michelin, looks back on both undertakings: how they were launched, what they have produced on the ground, the resistance encountered — cultural, technical and climatic — and what this approach reveals about how a major industrial company can make biodiversity a genuine lever for transformation, from plantation to production site.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL‘S VITAL RESERVES IN THE AMAZON: PROTECTING IRRECOVERABLE CARBON, BIODIVERSITY AND PEOPLE

episode #2 sept. 2026

Less than 14% of the Earth’s land surface holds 75% of the planet’s irrecoverable carbon — and provides habitat for 91% of vertebrate species. Protecting these areas is simultaneously a climate priority, a biodiversity emergency and a condition of survival for the peoples who depend on them.
It is from this scientific reality that Conservation International launched in 2022, with the support of the French Government and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), the Vital Reserves in the Amazon project. The goal: to protect more than 7 million hectares across four countries — Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru — by supporting Indigenous Peoples and developing innovative financial mechanisms to sustain these conservation areas. Elise Rebut, Director of Conservation International France, presents in this episode the Vital Reserves project, emblematic of the mechanisms and levers available to protect key ecosystems of our planet.

EVALUATING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS PROJECTS: A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE FRENCH COMMITTEE OF THE IUCN AND ENGIE

episode #1 sept. 2026

As part of its partnership with the French Committee of the IUCN, and to formalise its commitments within Act4Nature International, ENGIE set itself the goal of having 10 projects recognised as Nature-based Solutions (NbS) under the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions™ by end 2025. By meeting the rigorous scientific criteria of this Standard, ENGIE is demonstrating strong ambition and emerging as a pioneer in the private sector. We explore the contours of this partnership with Elsa Favrot-Monier, Head of the Nature & Society unit within ENGIE Group’s ESG Division, and Florence Clap, Head of the Biodiversity Policy programme at the French Committee of the IUCN.