Biodiversity-based goods

The biodiversity-based products considered by UNCTAD are all products with a biological origin, including plant and animal species as well as fungi found on land, water and air, and that meet at least one of the following criteria:

• they are intrinsically and integrally based on biological resources themselves at a non- or low-processed stage (e.g., whole pineapples or ground coffee);

• when used as inputs, they are processed products that solely or principally use biological resources-based ingredients (e.g., cotton shirts, wooden furniture, or chocolate bars); and

• when they are derivatives, they are derived mainly from biological resource-based products (e.g., glycerol from natural oils and fats).

In this understanding, goods produced or derived from the extraction of minerals, ores or metals, such as sands, oil and gas, are not considered biodiversity-based products.

UNCTAD developed the Trade and Biodiversity product classification to provide member States and other stakeholders with public access to consistent, comparable, and comprehensive trade data related to products derived from biodiversity. The classification includes 1 814 different types of products derived from biodiversity resources. -—
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