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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.

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.

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.