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Embed Nature into Net Zero Strategy

There is no net zero without nature. By integrating nature-positive goals into net zero plans, companies can significantly contribute to advancing climate objectives. This is because nature action boosts climate mitigation. With critical deadlines approaching to protect nature, the nature-positive pathway is an essential resource for companies in net zero planning and risk mitigation.

The nature-positive pathway is crucial for businesses at any stage in their journey toward climate and nature action. It outlines four critical steps for companies ready to accelerate their progress toward a more resilient and nature-positive net zero future: 

Assess and Reduce Impact: Conduct a materiality screening and create a comprehensive emissions inventory to identify where business activities interact with nature and assess material dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities.

Set science-aligned targets: Establish precise, time-bound, science-aligned targets to mitigate priority impacts on nature, aiming for net zero emissions by 2040 or sooner.

Take Action & Engage Stakeholders: Collaborate with stakeholders to implement integrated climate and nature strategies to avoid future impacts, reduce current impacts, and regenerate and restore ecosystems.

Report and Disclose: Prepare disclosures by creating responses to material issues, strategies, action plans, and risk management processes to achieve targets. Transparently report progress against commitments and compliance with evolving disclosure requirements.

The nature-positive pathway consolidates recommendations from emerging frameworks and targets, such as the Capital Coalition’s ACT-D Approach, Science-Based Targets Network (SBTN), and the Task Force on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). 

As regulations evolve, businesses must stay ahead by preparing for and meeting disclosure requirements. The nature-positive pathway helps prepare and highlight emerging opportunities in climate and natural ecosystems. 

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1. Understand Nature-Positive Climate Action

Businesses are under mounting pressure to act on climate change, nature loss, and inequality. Addressing the climate crisis, restoring nature, and protecting biodiversity are mutually beneficial goals. Businesses play a crucial role in addressing the risks of nature loss with active engagement of local community members as part of an integrated approach within their climate strategies.

Action Guide

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Understand Nature-Positive Climate Action

Environmental Defense Fund

Climate and nature are fundamentally interconnected and mutually dependent, as the earth’s climate and nature systems are intrinsically and complexly linked. Given this relationship, businesses must expand their decarbonization strategies to address nature loss and preserve essential ecosystem services while meaningfully engaging with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

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Report and Guide

Nature and Climate Action: A Resource Navigator for Companies and Financial Institutions

Global Commons Alliance

Report and Guide

The LEAP Approach

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure

Website

Business for Nature Coalition

Business for Nature

Action Guide
Feature Resource
Understand Nature-Positive Climate Action
Environmental Defense Fund
Climate and nature are fundamentally interconnected and mutually dependent, as the earth’s climate and nature systems are intrinsically and complexly linked. Given this relationship, businesses must expand their decarbonization strategies to address nature loss and preserve essential ecosystem services while meaningfully engaging with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
View Resource
Report and Guide
Nature and Climate Action: A Resource Navigator for Companies and Financial Institutions
Global Commons Alliance
The Navigator guides companies and financial institutions on how to take action – and which resources to use – for nature and climate together. Companies and financial institutions using this first-of-its-kind Navigator can realize many short- and long-term benefits from assessing levels of interconnected and compounding nature and climate opportunities and risks across their operations, portfolios, and supply chains.
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Report and Guide
The LEAP Approach
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) guides the integrated approach that TNFD has developed for identifying and assessing nature-related issues.
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Website
Business for Nature Coalition
Business for Nature
Conducts advocacy, engagement, and outreach, with the common goal of driving credible business action and policy ambition to achieve a nature-positive economy for all by 2030.
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2. Integrate Nature-Positive Strategies

Every company relies on nature for its operations to some extent. Biodiversity, natural resources, and ecosystems are essential for a strong climate strategy. Your company should integrate nature into your climate plan and prioritize it in decision-making. This means developing comprehensive strategies that address both climate and nature across your operations and value chain, while also obtaining the buy-in of Indigenous People and local communities (IPLCs).

Action Guide

Feature Resource

Integrate Nature-Positive Strategies

Environmental Defense Fund

Corporate performance and accountability systems are emerging to support and catalyze credible and impactful business action on nature. Your company can be prepared to respond to current and future climate and nature standards and reporting requirements by integrating nature-positive strategies into your climate plan.

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Report and Guide

Planet-Forward Playbook

Pure Strategies

Report and Guide

Nature in Transition Plans: Why and How

World Wildlife Fund

Report and Guide

The Nature Strategy Handbook

Business for Nature

Report and Guide

Nature Positive Roadmaps

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Action Guide
Feature Resource
Integrate Nature-Positive Strategies
Environmental Defense Fund
Corporate performance and accountability systems are emerging to support and catalyze credible and impactful business action on nature. Your company can be prepared to respond to current and future climate and nature standards and reporting requirements by integrating nature-positive strategies into your climate plan.
View Resource
Report and Guide
Planet-Forward Playbook
Pure Strategies
A practical guide for businesses to strengthen their climate initiatives and enhance corporate action on nature. It offers a clear starting point for companies to identify the next steps in integrating climate and nature strategies, including participation in external programs and frameworks.
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Report and Guide
Nature in Transition Plans: Why and How
World Wildlife Fund
This report emphasizes integrating nature into climate transition plans to achieve net zero emissions and positive environmental outcomes.
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Report and Guide
The Nature Strategy Handbook
Business for Nature
This handbook is a practical guide to support all businesses in developing a nature strategy. It includes guiding questions, recommendations, and resources for developing a strategy for nature.
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Report and Guide
Nature Positive Roadmaps
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
This resource provides companies with comprehensive, step-by-step " how-to” guides for taking credible, impactful nature action.
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