This Blueprint is a fundamental guidance on how companies can build business cases for using Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to address their challenges and opportunities – while also delivering positive impact on climate, nature and equity. Drawing on eight case studies from WBCSD members, this work lays out a six-stage process for companies to follow, from […]
WBCSD in partnership with GSK is convening the pharma sector including AstraZeneca, Bayer, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Roche and Takeda, to develop an additional tool to the Roadmaps to Nature Positive series, focusing on the pharmaceutical sector. All businesses depend on and impact nature through their direct operations and/or value chains. To accelerate business contribution toward […]
Urgency mounts to preserve nature amidst plunging wildlife populations and the looming threat of mass extinction. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets a bold reversal by 2030, paralleling the net-zero movement for carbon.
Leading food and agriculture organizations join forces to scale regenerative agriculture, partnering with 3,6 million farmers to accelerate the transition of over 160 million hectares to regenerative landscapes, with an initial investment of USD $2.2Bn. Dubai, UAE, 4 December 2023 – Today, at COP28 in Dubai, more than 25 leading agriculture and food players join forces […]
Nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities (DIROs) are highly local. Recognizing the inherent link between agriculture and the land, our guidance includes an initial series of “deep dives” into three distinct agricultural landscapes. A company with global exposure would likely determine that any of these landscapes – if part of their value chain –requires specific […]
The UN Food Systems Summit this July marked an inflection point for food companies and their role in the Nature Positive agenda.
WBCSD’s Roadmap to Nature Positive: Foundations for the energy system serves as a guide to transform business practices and value chains and to ensure the energy system plays its part in halting and reversing nature loss by 2030 – the mission at the heart of the Global Biodiversity Framework. This Roadmap aims to support companies […]
The built environment system is responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions, 40% of global resource use and 40% of global waste streams. It is set to double in size: the global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050. This growth will intensify pressures on nature, leading to increased water usage, pollution and waste […]
The Roadmaps to Nature Positive: Foundations for all businesses serves as the basis of our business guidance, laying out how all companies can play their part in halting and reversing nature loss by 2030 – the mission at the heart of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Following the ACT-D high level actions on nature (assess, commit, transform […]
“There is no business on a dead planet.” This rings particularly true for the global agri-food system, where the most fundamental dependencies and impacts tie directly to the land. Agri-food contributes around one-third of all GHGs and 70% of freshwater use, and is the primary driver of global land-use change and biodiversity loss. With food […]