Adopt legal measures, administrative or policy to encourage and facilitate business activities, and in particular to ensure that large corporations and financial institutions, transnational: a) monitor, evaluate, and disclose periodically and their risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity, including the requirements for all large companies and financial institutions, transnational throughout their operations, supply chains and value and purses; (b) provide the necessary information to consumers to promote patterns of sustainable consumption; (c) to report on the compliance of regulations and measures of access and benefit-sharing, as appropriate, in order to progressively reduce the negative impacts on biodiversity, increase the positive impacts, reducing risks related to biodiversity for companies and financial institutions and to promote actions to ensure sustainable patterns of production.

Note by the Secretariat:  This guidance material provides an overview of the target by a brief introduction of key terms, highlighting some of the implications for the establishment of national targets and providing key points and questions guidance for their consideration as part of the exercises of establishment of national targets. It also identifies the indicators to monitor the progress and the resources that could help with the establishment and implementation of national goals. This material should be considered a work in progress and will be updated regularly with the contributions of the Parties and organizations associated with the light of the experiences with its use. This information is intended to serve as a resource to the Parties and others might wish to consider as they implement the Global Framework for Biodiversity. It does not replace or qualify  the decisions 15/4  or  15/5 .