Biodiversity Is Climbing the Corporate Agenda. Companies with ‘Net Positive Impact’ on Biological Diversity are Winners in Resource-Constrained World Business leaders in biodiversity-rich developing economies are concerned about losses of ‘natural capital’, a new report launched today highlights. Over 50 per cent of Chief Executive Officers surveyed in Latin America and 45 per cent in Africa see declines in biodiversity as a challenge to business growth. In contrast, less than 20 per cent of their counterparts in Western Europe share such concerns. The findings, compiled by a study of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), indicate that those corporate chiefs who fail to make sustainable management of biodiversity part of their business plans may find themselves increasingly out of step with the market place. The financial sector, as underlined by UNEP FI Biodiversity Working Group’s contribution to the report, has a key role to play. Read the press release in English, Spanish, Arabic, French and Chinese. See the Executive Summary. See the support to TEEB for Business expressed by UNEP FI members…
17 May 2022Events, Roundtables