Essential reads:
WWF’s Living Planet Report
WEF’s The Future Of Nature
And Business
WBCSD’s Summary of Global Biodiversity Outlook 5
WEF’s Nature Risk Rising Report
The CBD’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 5
Exploring biodiversity risks for the Dutch financial sector
The Nature Conservancy’s Financing Nature
IPBES’s Global Assessment Report
The World Bank’s The Economic Case for Nature
Defining Nature vs. Biodiversity
Nature is the natural world: all the natural capital, processes and natural phenomena that exist, such as freshwater, air, the weather, oceans, forests, minerals, soil, organisms and mountains. It also includes ecosystem services such as water filtration, pollination, climate regulation and many others.
Nature can be understood through a construct of four realms upon which all life on earth depends: Freshwater, Land, Ocean and Atmosphere (TNFD).
Biodiversity is the variability within species, between species and of ecosystems. In other words, biodiversity is the diversity of all living things. More biodiversity is essential to a healthy, stable and resilient planet.