
How leaning on nature can beat urban heat
By 2070, 3.5 billion people will be heavily affected by extreme heat, 1.6 billion of whom will live in urban areas. How can nature help reduce the effects of heat?
By 2070, 3.5 billion people will be heavily affected by extreme heat, 1.6 billion of whom will live in urban areas. How can nature help reduce the effects of heat?
As cities continue to expand, so does their ecological footprint. If cities don’t heal their relationship with nature, our species will face increasing threats.
Cities don't need to have a destructive impact on nature. A new competition is calling for innovations that enable our cities to become nature-positive.
Cities are emerging as critical spaces – with the right physical scale and human capital – in the search for solutions to fight future biodiversity loss
Nature Risk Rising, the first report in the NNE series, explains how nature-related risks matter to business, why they must be urgently mainstreamed into risk management strategies and wh...
This report provides a vision for cities of the future and the needed systemic shifts to develop BiodiverCities that place nature at the heart of decision-making and infrastructure invest...
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative has released its new whitepaper on the Circular Economy in Cities: evolving the model for a sustainable urba...
The Future of Nature and Business, prepared in collaboration with AlphaBeta is the second of three reports in the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy series. It provides the practic...
The improvements witnessed in biodiversity and emissions during lockdowns are unlikely to remain, and the crisis could get worse than before the pandemic.
If countries and business prioritize nature they could generate $10.1 trillion in annual business value and create 395 million jobs by the end of 2030.
Nature loss is one of the greatest risks to the economy. Business for Nature asks businesses to urge governments to protect nature in the post-COVID world.
Coronavirus is a reminder of our dysfunctional relationship with nature. Studies show deforestation and the loss of wildlife cause infectious disease.