ABINC
Association for Business Innovation in harmony
with Nature and Community
One of the early achievements of JBIB was the development of a tool kit for sustainable land use, which aimed to improve the quality of corporate greenery so they can accommodate more local species and contribute to the conservation of the original flora and fauna. We believe that this is an approach that every corporation can take to realize “living in harmony with nature,” which was the long-term vision globally adopted at the CBD-COP10.
In order to have companies other than JBIB member companies participate in this movement, and to accelerate actions, the standards established by the Sustainable Land Use Working Group (now called the Working Group for Study of Sustainable Town Planning) were made publicly available to all, and the Association for Business Innovation in harmony with Nature and Community (ABINC) was spun off in 2013 as an organization independent from JBIB to provide third party certification that a company’s design of green space is in proper accordance with these standards.
→ABINC（available in Japanese only）
ABINC not only provides such support to businesses for activities to realize “a world in harmony with nature,” but also raises the goals of creating plans for ensuring harmony between people and all other living things, conducting scientific and technical verifications, promoting various relevant programs, and publicizing and spreading them.
Specifically, it holds regular sessions for those concerned with corporate green spaces or urban development to enable them to gain the basic knowledge needed to put this concept into practice. The sessions are based on the JBIB Guidelines for Sustainable Business Sites. Certifications are also issued to those sites acknowledged to be following the guidelines in their planning and management of land sites, and which have fulfilled the required score of the Land Use Score Card.
Facilities eligible for certification have also been expanding year by year, and currently five types are covered: factories, apartments, urban shopping centers, detached housing complexes, and logistics centers. The ABINC ADVANCE certification was added in 2019 as a system to certify wider area, mixed-use urban development projects that take biodiversity into consideration.
The number of facilities that have so far acquired ABINC certification number 104 (18 factories, 46 apartment buildings, 27 urban shopping centers, 6 detached housing complexes, 5 logistics centers, and 2 ABINC ADVANCE). It is anticipated that this figure will be increasing significantly.
