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Created both for businesses that are already undertaking actions for biodiversity and businesses only starting to explore relevant actions that they could undertake to address their impacts and dependencies on nature, the publication focuses on five international goals for biodiversity, which encompass features of multiple MEAs and the SDGs. The publication first maps the SDGs to the…

The report warns that the world’s agricultural system will need drastic changes in the next few decades in order to feed billions more people without triggering a climate catastrophe. The challenge is daunting: Agriculture already occupies roughly 40 percent of the world’s land and is responsible for about a quarter of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. But with the global…

Businesses are seeking biodiversity indicators to help assess performance for a variety of business applications to address a range of internal and external drivers. However, challenges exist to develop indicators that can cut through the complexity of natural systems, display clear and simple measures of biodiversity, and be relevant to different business applications. Whilst some businesses are…

How can CEOs build on the many opportunities offered by the UN Sustainable Development Goals? That objective should be at the heart of all executive agendas and with good reasons. These include the estimated $12 trillion in potential growth linked to achieving the SDGs; and the millions of jobs that could be created or retained linked to the Goals. The issues they address are central to…

This report clearly demonstrates that the financial commitments to achieve universal access to electricity and clean cooking are still falling far short of where it is needed in terms of both the level of committed funding as well as the most appropriate energy sectors and country recipients. There must be a sharp increase in energy access investments in the 20 high-impact countries that account…

The SDGs represent the first ever democratically forged agreement on universal development. They will guide the global development agenda until 2030. Contrary to the MDGs, which were written by the UN Secretariat in 2000 to shape development up to 2015, the SDGs came about not through the distillation of policy agreements from previous UN conferences but through governments negotiating. „„…