According to our research, over half the world's GDP is highly or moderately dependent on natural resources and services. Nature loss and degradation is threatening our wellbeing, as well as our economic, political, and societal structures.
Business-as-usual is no longer an option. To promote the systemic solutions and transitions that will create a global ‘nature-positive’ economy, we need ambitious public-private collaboration, now.
The Nature Action Agenda is leading business and policy transformation for a nature-positive world by:
The Nature Action Agenda initiatives:
The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Latin America and the most biodiverse savanna in the world. Yet it has lost half its native vegetation to agriculture – and conversion is accele...
In collaboration with PwC China
More than half of the world’s GDP – US$44 trillion – is at immediate risk due to nature loss. Fortunately, investing in nature allows us to not only mitigate future environmental catastro...
The world urgently needs to take collective action to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement by 2030.
Cities are the engine of the global economy - contributing 80% of the world’s GDP – but their exponential growth in recent decades has come at the expense of nature. The built environment...
China has an opportunity to achieve its economic and social ambitions and the vision of ecological civilization, while creating millions of sustainable jobs by 2030 if it transforms three...
The Future of Nature and Business, the second of three reports in the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy series, provides the practical insights needed to take leadership in shifti...
The Future of Nature and Business Policy Companion outlines a series of recommendations for policy makers to ensure they protect, invest in, and rebuild natural capital in their response ...
Look out: Nature Risks on the Rise
An utterly unique palm tree from Borneo that grows its flowers and fruit almost entirely underground was one of 74 plants newly identified by the UK’s Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (RGB Ke...
Whether you’re in Germany or Belgium, California or Siberia, it’s impossible not to notice that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent – and more destructive.
As G7 leaders gather on 11-13 June to discuss the urgent need to incorporate climate action into global pandemic recovery plans, it’s worth remembering that a precursor to policy action i...
The need to transform the relationship between cities and nature has become ever more urgent. Over half of the world’s population lives in cities, with an estimated 1.5 million additional...
Global gross domestic product (GDP) has quadrupled since 1970, enabling immense progress, and lifting billions of people out of poverty. However, material productivity, defined as GDP rel...
Today marks Earth Overshoot Day – the date when our global demand for nature’s resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate. This year, that date is 22 August, meaning that...
The average person today is 4.4 times richer and lives 25 years longer than in 1950.
2020 had been billed a “super year” for nature. As we entered the Decade of Action to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, expectations were high that we would see strides toward...
Biodiversity is critically important – to your health, to your safety and, probably, to your business or livelihood.
After weeks of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread lockdown, we must now take stock of how the crisis has disrupted the strategic decision-making framework for organization...
Many people are wondering when life will get back to normal after the COVID-19 crisis. We should be asking: can we use this opportunity to learn from our mistakes and build something bett...
At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos in January this year, there was unprecedented interest in and commitment to fighting the climate and nature emergencies facing humani...
The pace of change over the past 50 years has been extraordinary. The global economy has expanded four-fold, over a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, we live signifi...
