Business for Nature

📣🌱 This is our window to secure a #NaturePositive economy for all by 2030. With less than 100 days until the UN Biodiversity #COP16, we’ve published a business statement outlining five high-level policy recommendations for governments to accelerate the implementation of the #BiodiversityPlan to drive corporate #Nature action. The statement, endorsed by 130 businesses and financial institutions with combined revenues of $1.1 trillion, calls on governments to adopt policies to: 🌎 Make sure business and financial actors protect nature and restore degraded ecosystems 🌎 Ensure sustainable resource use and management to reduce negative environmental impacts 🌎 Value and embed nature in decision-making and disclosure 🌎 Align all financial flows to transition to a nature-positive, net zero and equitable economy 🌎 Adopt or strengthen ambitious global agreements to address key nature loss challenges It’s time for governments to create an enabling regulatory framework and put nature at the heart of decision-making. 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/BizCOP16

How can small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in protecting #Nature? 🌱 There are an estimated 350-400 million SMEs across the world, accounting for around two-thirds of all jobs. With massive combined spending power and crucial roles in supply chains, SMEs have huge potential to impact nature. The benefits of taking the first steps toward creating a nature strategy can far outweigh any costs, even for the smallest SME. In the latest ‘It’s #NowForNature’ article, we spoke to Eva Zabey, Benjamin Matthews, Keith Mellen, Josie Morris MBE DL and Adele Cheli, on how SMEs can take the first steps towards a #NatureStrategy, namely through: 🌎 Taking a targeted approach, looking at a particular product that they produce or sell that has the highest impact on nature. 🌎 Leveraging tools like ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure); a free, online platform that sets out the importance of nature to the economy, sector-by-sector. 🌎 Assigning simple governance within the business and giving responsibility to whoever on the executive team is most interested in the issue, meaning they can lead on building a team of passionate staff who can inspire and motivate others. Businesses can also find out more about how to develop and submit their nature strategy by using the Nature Strategy Handbook, a step-by-step guide on how to develop a nature strategy. GSK, Woolcool, PwC 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/e7EHVshH

🔊 We're #hiring an Interim Advocacy Director! If you're someone with a demonstrated passion for #Sustainability, strong leadership and advocacy experience, with the ability to manage multi-stakeholder relationships - this role may be for you. 👇 🌎 Maternity Leave Cover, ideally starting 4 November 2024 until mid-May 2025 (with possible hand-over in October 2024). 🖥️ Location: We are a virtual team so you can be based anywhere providing you have the right to work there. You will need to travel occasionally. 🌱 Position: Full-time or part-time negotiable. 📅 Application deadline: 15 September 2024. 💰 Gross salary range for 6 months (total): USD 30-60,000, depending on location, for full time position. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a multi-stakeholder international coalition alongside our network of 100 partners worldwide, and with leading businesses to help drive our mission and strategy. 🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eWwjvsGB #JobPost #GreenJobs #SustainabilityJobs #RemoteWork

Happening today - the 8th IUCN Asia Regional Conservation Forum (RCF)! 🌱 The IUCN Asia Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) is the leading platform for knowledge and partnerships in the region, bringing together key stakeholders in #Nature and #Biodiversity conservation. For the next three days, IUCN will be hosting the 8th Asia Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme 'Reimagining Conservation in Asia: A Nature Positive Future'. With 500 representatives of Union constituents, partners and supporters gathering, the event will address key transformative directions and actions for achieving a #NaturePositive future for Asia and the world. Highlights include: 🌎 Speakers and resource persons such as Razan Al Mubarak, President of IUCN. 🌎 Visits to project sites and partner agencies. 🌎 Plenary and thematic sessions to present and discuss key regional challenges and trends. 🔗 Stream the event here: https://lnkd.in/gm-WkePD

How can the built environment sector play a role in the transition to a #NaturePositive economy? 🌱 Buildings, and urban, transport and coastal infrastructure form the built environment sector, which is responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions, 40% of global resource use and 40% of global waste streams. With the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, the sector is set to double in size, putting increased pressure on #Nature. This emphasizes that the sector should take priority actions to help contribute to a nature-positive future, namely: 🌎 Avoid further terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitat conversion. 🌎 Prioritize re-use and retrofitting over demolition. 🌎 Select materials with nature in mind and invest in circularity. 🌎 Apply Nature-based Solutions (NbS). To support this transition, the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development in collaboration with Business for Nature and the World Economic Forum has produced sector-specific guidance to ensure that the built environment sector plays its role in halting and reversing #NatureLoss by 2030. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3M6h9G9

Givaudan is calling for governments to help secure a #NaturePositive economy for all! 🔊🌱 Ahead of #COP16, more than 130 businesses with combined revenues of $1.1 trillion have endorsed our business statement outlining five high-level policy recommendations for governments to accelerate the implementation of the #BiodiversityPlan to drive corporate #Nature action. The policy recommendations call for governments to adopt policies to: 🌎 Make sure business and financial actors protect nature and restore degraded ecosystems. 🌎 Ensure sustainable resource use and management to reduce negative environmental impacts. 🌎 Value and embed nature in decision-making and disclosure. 🌎 Align all financial flows to transition to a nature-positive, net zero and equitable economy. 🌎 Adopt or strengthen ambitious global agreements to address key nature loss challenges. Willem Mutsaerts 🔗 Read the business statement: https://bit.ly/BizCOP16

The #NatureRestoration Law has come into force! 🔊🌱 The economic cost of the degradation of #Nature is very high, with every euro spent on restoration delivering a return on investment of more than €8, depending on the ecosystem. In a recent press release, EU Environment and Climate explores how the Nature Restoration Law plans to meet EU-wide objectives for #Nature restoration, namely through: 🌎 National restoration plans, where each Member State will develop a national restoration plan, setting out restoration needs and measures to fulfill the obligations and achieve the targets of the law adapted to the national context. 🌎 Quantified and time-bound restoration targets for habitats included in Annex I of the Habitats Directive, as well as targets for habitats of protected species under the Habitats and the Birds Directives, and restoration targets for essential marine habitats covered by the nature directives and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Full implementation of the law is crucial to restoring the EU’s #Biodiversity and stopping further #BiodiversityLoss. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/e4eQH3_X

How can governments, the private sector, and conservation groups in Africa help promote #Conservation? 🌱 At the recent African Regional Conservation Forum 2024, Africa demonstrated dedication to its Sustainable Agenda 2063. However, to achieve this, Africa must integrate conservation with long-term development, ensuring natural heritage and economic goals thrive together. In a recent article for IUCN, Humphrey Kariuki calls for collaboration in African conservation, suggesting the following approaches: 🌎 Demonstrating the value of conservation efforts to communities living near protected areas. 🌎 Recognizing the true value of Africa's #Biodiversity, essential for allocating resources for future generations. 🌎 Reconsidering its approach to conservation, embracing innovation, and asserting its role in global conservation governance. "The time has come for a stronger commitment to protect Africa's natural heritage. Safeguarding wildlife and landscapes is crucial not only for the future of our planet but also for the well-being of all its inhabitants, human and non-human." - Humphrey Kariuki, Founder of Janus Continental Group (JCG) 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/d3BHGyTv

We're delighted to announce that Business for Nature has officially joined #RaceToZero! 🌱 Led by High-Level Climate Champions, Race to Zero is a campaign rallying non-state actors to take immediate action to contribute to halving global emissions by 2030. As one of its more than 30 accelerators, we'll be: 🌎 Helping raise awareness of the campaign 🌎 Helping build the capacity of non-state actors to deliver ambitious #NetZero action 🌎 Continuing to drive credible business action and policy ambition on nature, including through the 'It's #NowForNature' campaign Razan Al Mubarak 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eTyHFeJE

How can the built environment system play a role in halting and reversing #NatureLoss by 2030? The built environment system is one of the four value chains responsible for approximately 90% of #Nature and #BiodiversityLoss worldwide. With the system set to double in size with the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050 - it’s crucial that the system directs its efforts towards addressing the most significant impacts on nature in its operations and value chains, namely: 🌊 Land and sea use change 💧 Freshwater use 💨 Pollution 🌎 Greenhouse gas emissions To support this transition, the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development has produced clear sector-specific guidance that businesses should take now to ensure that the built environment system plays its role in halting and reversing #NatureLoss by 2030. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3M6h9G9