"As biodiversity loss accelerates alongside the climate crisis, businesses are increasingly recognizing their role in both causing and potentially solving this planetary emergency. The scale of the problem is stark: humans and our livestock now make up around 96% of all land-based mammal biomass, leaving just 4% for the world's remaining wild species. But progress in combating such losses remains too slow."
"Becoming Nature Positive offers an ambitious, timely and comprehensive guide for organizations seeking not only to reduce harms but also to regenerate nature in an active way. With more than two dozen contributors, this volume provides both theoretical grounding and practical strategies. It comes at a crucial time, as the world is working out how to meet the goal of the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030."
"In the opening sections, Marco Lambertini, convenor of the Nature Positive Initiative and former director-general of WWF, the conservation group headquartered in Gland, Switzerland, traces the story of the 'nature positive' movement. This growing global community is committed to doing more than halting and reversing biodiversity loss: its aim is that, by 2030, the world has more nature than it did in 2020 and, by 2050, all ecosystems will have recovered."
Accelerating biodiversity loss alongside the climate crisis shows a stark imbalance: humans and livestock comprise about 96% of all land-based mammal biomass, leaving 4% for wild species. Organizations are urged to move beyond harm-reduction toward active nature regeneration through theoretical grounding and practical strategies. The nature-positive movement aims for more nature by 2030 than in 2020 and full ecosystem recovery by 2050. The movement grew from UN biodiversity initiatives to prominence after 2019 Davos, and the 2022 adoption of a 30% protection target under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework parallels the Paris climate agreement in ambition. Significant work remains.
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