Over the past few weeks, Business for Nature has been on the ground participating in the latest talks in preparation for the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15. Read our latest update on how the negotiations progressed.
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At the CBD Open-ended Working Group in Geneva, Business for Nature joins 14 of the world’s largest environmental organizations, calling for a global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and achieve full recovery by 2050.
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Ahead of the last round of CBD negotiations before the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15, The B Team and Business for Nature launch a joint brief called “Financing Our Survival: Building a Nature-Positive Economy through Subsidy Reform”. It aims to inform government and business decision making on Environmentally Harmful Subsidy (EHS) reform.
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If you’re not familiar with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), we’ve helped to create business and finance guides that explain how the UN CBD process works and how companies and financial institutions can engage.
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As we come to the end of the 2021, it’s important to celebrate what we collectively have achieved. Business for Nature shares three take-aways on nature from 2021.
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Last Saturday, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) wrapped up in Glasgow. Business for Nature was on the ground landing the message that we need to tackle the intertwined challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality, and emphasizing that COP26 is a springboard for further policy ambition at the UN CBD COP 15 next year.
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The need to tackle nature loss is climbing both policymakers’ and business leaders’ agendas, because the world’s diminishing biodiversity and climate change are inextricably connected.
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On 6 November 2021 at COP26, Business for Nature, along with a group of partners, co-hosted the “How companies are stepping up action on climate and nature“ event and launched nine case studies, where leading companies shared their integrated action on climate and nature based on practical, real-life experience, and linked these insights to policy asks and recommendations.
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As the UN Biodiversity COP15 officially opens, more than 1,000 businesses with revenues of $4.7 trillion USD, operating in 65 countries and employing more than 11.2 million people are urging governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss this decade. This is coupled with an open letter to Heads of State signed by the CEOs of leading companies who are calling for governments to deliver a meaningful and actionable Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Business for Nature, a global coalition of influential organizations and forward-thinking businesses, launches a consultation on nature policies inviting feedback from businesses and organizations of all sectors, sizes and geographies before 22 November. Complete the consultation.
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To address the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, food security and social inequality, Business for Nature, the World Economic Forum, WBCSD and We Mean Business released a new CEO briefing document outlining why businesses need to act on nature and the steps they need to take.
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Business for Nature is hiring an Associate to provide support for our overall business engagement, development of the future strategy of the coalition and lead on monitoring, evaluation and reporting to funders, as well as general activities of the coalition team.
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Joint call at IUCN World Conservation Congress demands governments act to secure a nature-positive world by 2030 .
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Business for Nature actively contributed to the third Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-3) negotiation meeting for the adoption of a new and ambitious global agreement on nature: the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (the Framework).
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Business for Nature was invited to participate at the Biodiversity Pre-Conference of the Parties hosted by the Government of Colombia. Our Executive Director, Eva Zabey, delivered a statement.
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On 10 August 2021, Business for Nature, the Capitals Coalition, UNEP-WCMC, and WBCSD co-hosted a dialogue between businesses and CBD negotiators to talk about the draft 1 of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
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Business for Nature’s sets out eight suggestions for negotiators to include in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, aiming to strengthen its ambition.
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