Safeguarding and improving the environment at local, regional and global scale, above all by protecting, restoring and enriching biodiversity and ecosystem services (fauna, flora and genetic diversity among them), is essential for living conditions that are safe and pleasant, enhances attractiveness and strengthens economic development. Under 4.6.1 every strategy, programme, project, plan and service the organization carries out must take this issue into account and contribute to the six purposes of sustainability; the standard's table for this issue offers example questions for the cross-analysis, one per purpose: how biodiversity richness has been prioritized in the territory and placed at the centre of plans and projects; what the biodiversity action plan contains to preserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystems; how loss of biodiversity is assessed and its risks responded to; how biodiversity and ecosystem services are managed as major natural resources; how access to nature and ecosystems is facilitated; and how citizens have been helped to understand that intact ecosystems and species diversity contribute to quality of life.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.