The State of Biodiversity and Business 2024: Take our 5-minute survey

In our first State of Biodiversity and Business survey, we are compiling an overview of corporate action on nature, identifying real-world examples and developing a baseline for future comparison.

Please take the 5-minute survey, regardless of how involved your company is with nature issues right now.

There is more to managing the environmental impacts of companies than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Business leaders are recognizing the need to evaluate and adjust how their corporate operations affect nature and biodiversity.

What we know so far

• In the last year, more than 400 companies have adopted a framework to voluntarily assess and disclose their nature impacts. Mandatory regulatory disclosures went into effect for companies that do business in the European Union and hundreds of financial institutions endorsed investor initiatives to encourage companies to pay attention to nature. 
• Many more companies seek to understand their impacts on nature and considering whether and how to respond.  
• Leading companies such as Tetra Pak, Holcim and Kering have already announced nature strategies. British pharmaceutical company GSK, for example, has outlined its nature impacts and dependencies and what the company is doing about them, including its approach to target-setting.
• On July 15, more than 130 companies with $1.1 trillion in total revenue called on global leaders to strengthen their efforts to prevent biodiversity loss ahead of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP16, coming up Oct. 21-Nov.1 in Cali, Colombia.

Setting a baseline

Along with the Trellis research team, Alex Novarro and I are conducting a survey to take a close look at what businesses are doing to understand and respond to their impacts on nature and biodiversity. We will publish and announce the findings during Bloom 24, which will take place Oct. 24-25 alongside COP16.

Take the State of Biodiversity and Business 2024 survey.