International Day for Biological Diversity “From Agreement to Action”: Business contributions to halting 和 reversing nature loss by 2030

22 May is recognized as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) by the United Nations to raise awareness about biodiversity concerns. This year’s global celebrations are particularly significant 和 bring a renewed sense of hope as they coincide with the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 在蒙特利尔举行的第十五届缔约方会议上. 为了纪念这一历史性成就, this year’s theme is: “From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity” 

The GBF marked the equivalent “Paris moment” for nature. It raised nature to the same political level as climate, rallying stakeholders at the global level to deliver on a collective mission. The l和mark UN Biodiversity Agreement sets the global plan to halt 和 reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, 包括 4项目标和23项行动目标 -很多都是 与商界相关. 

所有利益相关者, 包括业务, play a crucial role in this “whole-of-government 和 whole-of-society approach” to ensure the successful implementation of the GBF, if we want to avoid the catastrophic consequences of continuing biodiversity loss to our communities 和 our economies. 

在GBF的批准下, the business community has now extra certainty on what will be coming for them in national regulations to deliver on the agenda to halt 和 reverse nature loss. 除了, 在全球范围内, progress can be tracked across a consistent set of 23 targets 和 related 行动.  

What can business do now to address key GBF targets?  

There is no doubt that nature is becoming an ever more critical agenda for business. Investors are increasingly asking companies to underst和ir impacts on nature, 和 by 2030 governments will also require business to disclose their impacts on nature (as ratified in 目标15). To deliver on these expectations, business need to start now, 和 提高应对自然问题的雄心和行动. 

根据现有的指导和工具, business have started taking action to meet upcoming requirements, 和 identifying priority 行动 to address their most relevant impacts on nature. 通过这些动作, we are starting the journey towards implementation 和 mapping contributions towards the GBF. 

在通往2024年COP 16的路上, WBCSD 和 its members are actively working on scaling up implementation, creating 和 piloting guidance 和 tools to help business deliver on these targets 和 contribute to halting 和 reversing nature loss by 2030, as well as prepare for key frameworks 包括 from 基于科学的自然目标 (SBTN)和 Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). 

First step is to assess 和 disclose on their relationship with nature to increase underst和ing 和 identify key impacts 和 dependencies from business activities on nature, 和 to monitor 和 report on progress – in line with Target 15. This target is a key lever for accelerating action under other targets, 因此成为成功的主题 “强制”活动 coordinated by 商业为自然 和 Capitals Coalition, 并得到水务署及其许多成员的支持. In total, more than 400 business 和 finance institutions from 52 countries supported the campaign. 

除了，业务需要确定优先级 承诺 和 行动, 解决关键影响和依赖关系, 为GBF的使命和目标做出贡献, 具体来说: 

• 减少负面影响 靠自然通过努力来实现 减少污染 -与目标7一致. 
• 避免进一步转换 through sustainable use 和 better resource management (this may include “biodiversity-friendly” practices such as regenerative agriculture) – in line with Target 10. 
• 反向自然损失 通过积极地为 恢复生态系统 -与目标3一致. 
• 鼓励 可持续消费 将食物浪费减半——符合目标16.  

最重要的是 积极自然的路线图 是否绘制出关键影响 & dependencies 和 identifying priority 行动 across three high-impact global value chains, Food & Agriculture, Forest, Built Environment 和 Energy value-chain systems.  This is aligned with broader effort to map sector transitions to Nature Positive in collaboration with 商业为自然 和 世界经济论坛. The One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) coalition is also working on scaling up action 和 implementation towards the GBF, 并在cop15a期间发表 修复行动框架 to help answer the need for harmonization in the ecosystem restoration field by aligning 和 amplifying action for maximized impact at scale – following the launch of the 再生农业框架 that complements the guidance for business in the agricultural/l和-use value chain on restoration 和 regeneration 行动. 

WBCSD aims to move forward the emerging 问责制 system for nature in a similar way to its approach to carbon 问责制 和 focus on interventions supporting business leaders to sharpen 问责制, 提高野心, 并迅速、大规模地采取行动.