The Biological Diversity Protocol (BD Protocol) is the first tool that provides a standardised approach to help any organisation account for and consolidate all its net impacts on ecosystems and species. It allows all companies, big or small, and no matter what industry, to establish...
The EU B@B Platform has launched the third report of the Assessment of Biodiversity Measurement Approaches for Businesses and Financial Institutions series. This 2021 report builds on the foundations established by the first two volumes (2018, 2019) and takes the next crucial step in the...
Ecosystems are critically important components of Earth’s biological diversity and as the natural capital that sustains human life and well-being. Yet all of the world’s ecosystems show hallmarks of human influence, and many are under acute risks of collapse, with consequences for habitats of species,...
During the celebration of the fifth General Assembly of the UN Environmental Program (UNEP-5), it was presented the report Making peace with nature. The resulting synthesis communicates how climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development...
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s review presents the first comprehensive economic framework of its kind for biodiversity. It calls for urgent and transformative change in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world....
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region enjoys an exuberant natural wealth; with 16% of the planets land, the region is home to 40% of the world’s biological diversity. This report investigates and provides a good overview of the regions efforts to mainstream natural capital...
The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment, and geopolitical fragmentation. Environmental degradation—still an existential threat to humanity—risks intersecting with societal...
The Aligning Biodiversity Measures for Business collaboration has recently published a review paper on the drivers and current practice around business measurement, reporting and disclosure and the role of these approaches in future business disclosure for informing global policy targets. ...
Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in GDP as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people in each country have the freedom and opportunity...
The report "Birds and Biodiversity Targets" uses BirdLife’s extensive worldwide research to provide a road map to ensure the 2020s are not just another “lost decade for nature”. As well as outlining the shortfalls of each of the targets, this publication also brings a message...
