BEEODIVERSITY - Be part of the cycle

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17%19,90%

27,56% 28,50%

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25%

30%

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Bees are disappearing

Mortality rate

84% of crop species in Europe depends on insects pollinators

Economic value for human food : 153 billion euros per year

Bee colonies deficit across Europe : 13.4 million

Consequences

Source: Whole Foods Market campaign

World with bees

World without bees

Who?

Created in 2012 by 4 participants in the Executive Master in Management (Solvay) (scientific and business background). Initiator: Dr Back Kim Nguyen (Gembloux Agro-Biotech), worldwide expert.

Financing

• Information• Raise awareness• Action – R&D

Companies & Public

institutions

Individuals

Beekeepers & farmes

Scientifics & politics

Mission: BeeOdiversity develops and advises projects which aim at regenerating and preserving biodiversity and bees with an innovative, global and scientific approach. We also strive to involve all the concerned actors and raise their awareness to the issue and the solutions

« Be part of the cycle ».

Objective in 2015: develop biodiversity on minimum 10% of the surface of Belgium and extend the activities to Europe.

Mission and objective

Consultancy Leasing of bee colonies1 bee colony =

700ha of biodiversity

Biodiversity dashboard

Communication services

Sponsor bee colonies• Idem leasing but the colonies our placed on our site

Lease bee colonies• Lease bee colonies that will be placed on your sites in order to develop 700ha of biodiversity per

colony• In consideration: Strong environmental impact + very efficient CSR action twd employees, clients, suppliers,…Receive honey for stakeholders + communication services and CSR events

Biodiversity development project

• We advise on measures to be taken (plants, bees, pollinators, etc)• We place bees and insect hotels• We set-up a sophisticated dashboard that monitors the environment• We propose activities to raise awareness and to inform on the issue

Develop a common product with BeeOdiversity

• Let’s propose solar panels that develop biodiversity with bees

• Let’s propose a green roof with efficient plants and bees to develop biodiversity

• Let’s integrate efficient plants and bees to real estate projects

BeeOdiversity acts on biodiversity on the whole. We sell full biodiversity development projects with clear impact indicators.

Strong scientific expertise (less than 5% mortality rate), credibility on a national and international level and visibility in the medias.

Team of entrepreneurs fully dedicated to the project with high social ambitions. BeeOdiversity’s « cycle » involves all the actors (farmers, beekeepers, public institutions, scientists, individuals, companies). Strong partnerships with institutions that can have a real impact (e.g. : EU, UN, Universities). Concrete actions to avoid the collapsing of bees (see above). Concrete actions to raise awareness of the public opinion and public institutions (see above).

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She thanks you in advance

Contact details:

Michael van CutsemTel: +32 (0)[email protected]

Bach Kim NguyenTel: +32 (0)[email protected]

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