Leading the transformation of our economy and society for a nature-positive world
Nature degradation threatens our wellbeing, as well as our economic, political, and societal structures. Business-as-usual cannot continue. To promote the systemic solutions and transitions that will create a global ‘nature-positive’ economy, we need ambitious public-private collaboration, now.
The Nature Action Agenda (NAA) is a multi-sector movement catalyzing economic action to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and enable humans to live in harmony with nature.
The NAA is catalysing business and policy action by:
More than half of the world’s GDP – US$44 trillion – is at immediate risk due to nature loss. Fortunately, investing in nature allows us to not only mitigate future environmental catastro...
The world urgently needs to take collective action to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement by 2030.
Cities are the engine of the global economy - contributing 80% of the world’s GDP – but their exponential growth in recent decades has come at the expense of nature. The built environment...
根据世界经济论坛《新自然经济报告》系列的最新报告，中国如果能够在2030年前实现三个关键社会经济系统向自然收益型经济的转型，就能够实现其经济与社会发展，生态文明建设和应对气候变化的目标，并创造数百万个可持续的就业机会。
《自然与商业之未来》是世界经济论坛三份新自然经济系列报告中的第二份报告，它为营造向有益于自然经济转型的领导力提供了独特视角。
The Future of Nature and Business Policy Companion outlines a series of recommendations for policy makers to ensure they protect, invest in, and rebuild natural capital in their response ...
Look out: Nature Risks on the Rise
Whether you’re in Germany or Belgium, California or Siberia, it’s impossible not to notice that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent – and more destructive.
As G7 leaders gather on 11-13 June to discuss the urgent need to incorporate climate action into global pandemic recovery plans, it’s worth remembering that a precursor to policy action i...
The need to transform the relationship between cities and nature has become ever more urgent. Over half of the world’s population lives in cities, with an estimated 1.5 million additional...
Global gross domestic product (GDP) has quadrupled since 1970, enabling immense progress, and lifting billions of people out of poverty. However, material productivity, defined as GDP rel...
Today marks Earth Overshoot Day – the date when our global demand for nature’s resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate. This year, that date is 22 August, meaning that...
The average person today is 4.4 times richer and lives 25 years longer than in 1950.
2020 had been billed a “super year” for nature. As we entered the Decade of Action to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, expectations were high that we would see strides toward...
Biodiversity is critically important – to your health, to your safety and, probably, to your business or livelihood.
After weeks of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread lockdown, we must now take stock of how the crisis has disrupted the strategic decision-making framework for organization...
Many people are wondering when life will get back to normal after the COVID-19 crisis. We should be asking: can we use this opportunity to learn from our mistakes and build something bett...
At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos in January this year, there was unprecedented interest in and commitment to fighting the climate and nature emergencies facing humani...
The pace of change over the past 50 years has been extraordinary. The global economy has expanded four-fold, over a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, we live signifi...
There is no tackling climate change without forests. Preserving them in the face of today’s climate and biodiversity crises is vital as they are one of the main reasons why our planet sup...
