This week, delegates are arriving in Cali, Colombia. The most significant biodiversity meeting in two years, COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, is being held here – one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But all over the world, biodiversity is in crisis. In December 2022, countries committed to take action to address…
UNEP-WCMC hosted the inaugural Nature Action Dialogues in July 2024 with a vision to scale private sector action in the lead up to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP16. The event catalysed discussions on how businesses and financial institutions can establish meaningful strategies and approaches to address their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and scale…
This new business brief aims to inform businesses on the philosophy and practice behind landscape-level approaches. After reading this report, senior management, nature and sustainability teams will have an overview of integrated landscape management and have a preliminary introduction to promoting it within their organisations.
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The definition of value chain action is increasingly understood as decisions that will influence other actors within business value chains – whether upstream suppliers or downstream consumers. But as we know value chains are complex and we hear repeated exclamations that companies have tens of thousands of suppliers, so how on earth can they influence them?
UNEP-WCMC brought together 175 private sector stakeholders and nature experts at its first ever two-day Nature Action Dialogues event. The dialogues championed multi-sector collaboration through interactive discussions under the event’s theme “The Road to CBD COP-16: Scaling private sector action in support of global goals”.
UNEP-WCMC will host the Nature Action Dialogues on 1-2 July in Cambridge
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A new report estimates that green investment of USD 7.4 trillion by 2030 would generate the economic equivalent of USD152 trillion
For International Day for Biological Diversity, we share a small sample of our work to implement the Biodiversity Plan
WCMC Chief Executive Officer Jonny Hughes celebrates a new tool for monitoring urban ecological performance
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