Our member case studies help to bridge the gap between theory and practice. These examples show how companies within the agri-food system are navigating the nature-positive journey, offering valuable insights into the particular opportunities and challenges that businesses encounter along the way. As each organization confronts a combination of unique and shared hurdles, it is important […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Last December, the world took an important step towards resetting its relationship with nature.
WBCSD’s Roadmaps to Nature Positive provide guidance for all businesses as well as in-depth analysis for four high impact systems on nature