The Nature Action Agenda is a multi-sector movement catalyzing economic action to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and enable humans to live in harmony with nature by 2050 - the mission at the heart of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
According to our research, over half the world's GDP is highly or moderately dependent on natural resources and services. Nature loss and degradation is threatening our wellbeing, as well as our economic, political, and societal structures.
Business-as-usual is no longer an option. To promote the systemic solutions and transitions that will create a global ‘nature-positive’ economy, we need ambitious public-private collaboration, now.
The Nature Action Agenda is leading business and policy transformation for a nature-positive world by:
The Nature Action Agenda initiatives:
The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Latin America and the most biodiverse savanna in the world. Yet it has lost half its native vegetation to agriculture – and conversion is accele...
In collaboration with PwC China
This White Paper authored by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Nature-Based Solutions takes a practical look at the investment landscape for nature and Nature-based Solu...
The world urgently needs to take collective action to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement by 2030.
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...
China has an opportunity to achieve its economic and social ambitions and the vision of ecological civilization, while creating millions of sustainable jobs by 2030 if it transforms three...
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 Future of Nature and Business Policy Companion outlines a series of recommendations for policymakers to ensure they protect, invest in, and rebuild natural capital in their response t...
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...
A tree that flowers under the soil is one of 74 new plant species identified by scientists in their ongoing quest to reverse global biodiversity loss.
Here's how the World Economic Forum is working to make natural climate solutions part of the COP26 agenda and unlock the finance needed to scale them up.
Climate vulnerable countries have high levels of debt burden, making a post-pandemic recovery harder. Could investing in nature solve the debt crisis?
COVID-19 and climate change crises has accelerated need to transform cities and reconnect with nature. BiodiverCities aims to design sustainable cities.
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.
We know we must tackle our environmental crises within the next decade - and things are looking up. Here are three reasons to be hopeful for the future.
A new World Economic Forum report provides a blueprint for 15 nature-positive transitions that could generate $10.1 trillion and create 395 million jobs.
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.
Biodiversity is critically important to human health, safety, business and life – but it's declining rapidly. Here's why we must protect our natural ecosystems.
Assessing needs and priorities and mapping them over time using a 'three horizons framework' can help governments, businesses and individuals recover.
Coronavirus is a reminder of our dysfunctional relationship with nature. Studies show deforestation and the loss of wildlife cause infectious disease.
Nature Risk Rising, the first in a new series of reports, sets out why businesses must start taking nature-related risks into better account. Here are five of its key takeaways.
This year should see agreements on biodiversity, climate targets and marine resources. It's time for a New Deal for Nature and People.
