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Corporate benchmarking can drive a race to the top

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

Research priorities for a nature positive future

Four key areas for research to help guide and prioritize business actions for nature.

COP15 – where do we go now?

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?

Aerial shot of sea and shoreline

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.

Figure showing change in commitment over time

This study explores trends in the biodiversity commitments of Global Fortune 100 companies and firms which have made recent ‘net impact’ commitments. It reviews challenges to overcome in delivering equitable and positive outcomes and summarizes the key elements required for businesses to achieve nature-positive alignment.

Net positive to nature positive: part one

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.

Image of ocean seagrass and small shoal of fish

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.

Aerial View of Green Mangrove Forest

A shared global goal and a new way of thinking about sustainability. Nature positive has set down roots in the business world and is laying out a challenge to those companies that want to lead on sustainability.

A metric for spatially explicit contributions to species targets

STAR, the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration metric, gives businesses, financiers, investors and governments a practical and comparable tool to quantify how specific actions at specific locations can contribute to global targets on species extinction.