This guidance aims to aims to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the promotion of trade and investment in BioTrade products and services.

This guidance is designed to show how BioTrade Principles and Criteria are applied in different contexts, from assessing social, economic and environmental impacts of a project and guiding elements to be included in a policy, to evaluating supply chains for financial or market initiatives and verifying good practices. As a result, the BioTrade P&C lay out the general guidance which can be and has been adapted for specific applications. They can also be applied both at the institutional (e.g. national or regional programmes) and supply-chain actors’ level (e.g. business or producer association).