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Biodiversity & Development

Solutions For Sustainability

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Suzuki
Ply
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corales
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mangrove

Our partners

Our friends for many years

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ZMT
Suzuki
Ply
locean
Blue
corales
reef
pnnc
mangrove
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About us

Our company’s concept was envisioned back in 2012, while we were providing advisory services for a Colombian government organisation. Since that time we were encouraged to use our talent for connecting people, institutions and communities, and to develop holistic approaches on environmental management and sustainability. At the time we felt unprepared to face this challenge but, with hard work and dedication over the last 10 years we created an extensive network of experts in their fields, who delivered numerous projects across areas of industry, academia and public services. Better prepared and matured, in January 2022 we created B&D SOLUTIONS (Biodiversity & Development-Solutions For Sustainability), an organisation that can offer holistic solutions to enable investment in tropical coastal areas, while promoting social transparency and sustainable approaches.

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Our professional approach

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Individual approach

The aim of our enterprise is to promote social transparency and support sustainable development goals (SDGs) in coastal tropical environments, being cognisant of the needs for conservation and the development of the productive sector.

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Experience

The company provides the experience and knowledge acquired by our staff members on marine-maritime and coastal issues around the world to deliver real, practical, and sustainable solutions to day-to-day problems.

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Staff

Our staff members (biologists, ecologists, geologists, IT, among others) are a variety of inter-disciplinary professionals specialized in several marine and coastal topics such as: Climate Change and Adaptation, Carbon Storage, valuation of marine environments, monitoring and restoration of strategic marine tropical environments (coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangroves, rocky shores, soft benthic environments), biodiversity and conservation, environmental services, connectivity, biological indicators, coastal engineering, geology, hydrology and oceanography, harbour management and maritime issues, beside the traditional consultancy topics (baseline studies, EIA, environmental appraisals, RA, etc.).

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More about us

To develop holistic solutions that enable investments in tropical coastal areas, by combining our transdisciplinary expertise to deliver sustainable results.

To be nationally and internationally recognised for our quality, efficiency (lean management), and professionalism to deliver sustainable solutions to society (government, industry, academia, local communities or general public) that match current legislation. Part of the “sustainable solutions to society” includes the capability to positively influence local society towards conservation and sustainable use of natural capital.

Our values

CORE VALUES

Our experience shows that some of the identified values are typically the barriers for other companies to access opportunities and success. Our values represent the personal values identified in our founding members because, at the end of the day, we are our company. Our core values include: QUALITY (of our staff-professionalism - and work), personal and institutional RESPONSIBILITY, EFFICIENCY (lean management), LEADERSHIP (our members have been identified as leaders in open science through peer-reviewed journal articles), HONESTY (we will always offer the best solution to our clients-good value for money - to break the stigma that honesty is a barrier for development in Latin America), PERSISTENCY (to achieve our target, deadlines and vision) and TEAMWORK (we will promote collaborative approaches to identified challenges so that every idea is considered and valued).

Our values

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL AWARENESS

Our more than 20 years of work in research and academia, and our interaction with the day-to-day social issues in developing countries, have taught us to care for the environment and our people. We know that individuals in current societies are more aware of environmental issues, but those values have often not permeated through to companies. We want to make the difference by making ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL AWARENESS also part of our core values. We believe these values will allow us to deliver more cost-effective and sustainable solutions to support development.

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Meet our team

Meet our team

Lina

Lina M. Barrios

Director

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David Barrios Amaya

Deputy Director

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James M. Mair

Scientific Advisor

Our employees have been trained and have acquired experience in Latin America and Europe. We offer quality, efficiency, punctuality and adherence to international standards. We not only aim to do the job on time, but do it properly. Since we started as a company, we consider that it is better to focus on what we do well. Therefore, we prioritise quality over quantity.

In some cases, we may be the contact point between our customer and third parties. In those cases, we will be responsible for our third parties and we will advise our customers when and how to build solutions, while maintaining our standards.

Diana

Diana Ballesteros

Researcher

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Bogota (Colombia): +57-3015383068

Manchester (UK): +44-7772260525