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Due to the acceleration of the renewable energy transition globally, the demand for aluminium has been growing rapidly, contributing to increased bauxite mining. This could potentially put biodiversity across the sector's value chain at risk, especially at a time when global biodiversity is in decline. Biodiversity frameworks become critical in maintaining sustainability efforts and ensuring responsible supply chain management.

Long-term societal and business resilience depends on the extent to which we can stay within the environmental ‘safe operating space’ for humanity. Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are a framework for business and finance to set...

When it comes to the environment, most private equity (PE) investors are still focused on decarbonisation, but a growing number are thinking about their portfolios’ interface with nature. Some have even embarked on the assessment...

While each nature-related framework1—whether voluntary like the TNFD or regulatory mandates such as the CSRD serves a different purpose—it can be a challenge to know which (or which combination) is the most appropriate to align...

The Covid-19 pandemic at the start of the 2020s caused a massive disruption to global supply chains and proved to be a major test of business resilience. Some companies were able to reorganise and bounce back from the economic...

Societal expectations regarding how corporations interact with and impact nature are rapidly changing. As such, corporate sustainability teams are becoming increasingly important for both risk mitigation and opportunity creation....

In 2023, 86% of all global power additions were from renewable energy sources (the largest increase in renewable energy capacity to date), expanding the stock of renewable power by around 14%. While the power addition has not been...

As the world races to address the climate and biodiversity crises, the transition to renewable energy is accelerating rapidly, and wind energy projects are proliferating worldwide. According to the International Energy Agency, by...

Nature-based solutions are amongst the most cost-effective approaches for tackling climate challenges while also bringing the added benefit of addressing biodiversity loss. Given that the overarching goal of all global climate and...

Dr Hollie Booth explains why ‘Nature Positive’ commitment is different from ‘No Net Loss’ or ‘Net Gain’ and outlines the ambition levels companies can adopt to contribute to a Nature Positive future.

The conversation about biodiversity credits got started just over a year ago at the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal. The discourse on panels, in...

How can businesses use benchmarking to guard against box ticking in sustainability reporting?

Organisations can use the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework to identify, assess, respond to and disclose their nature-related issues.

With its goals and targets, the Global Biodiversity Framework has set the direction for business when it comes to biodiversity and nature. But what should businesses focus on, and where can they start?

This technical working paper explores potential design principles for the development of scalable voluntary biodiversity credits and discusses the challenges in delivering high integrity positive outcomes.

Many approaches to monitoring great apes exist, but there is no such thing as a ‘best survey method’. Approaches should consider which method is best suited to a given context and question, and based on the resources available.

Nature positive is intuitive, appealing and apparently simple. But while the concept may seem simple, achieving it is not. Moving towards nature positive will mean transformative shifts - for companies and the economic systems in which they operate.

Well-designed credit systems could help connect the surge in corporate interest in biodiversity with field-based conservation to unlock new and enhanced funding streams.