Accelerating business solutions for climate and nature

The United Nations (UN) expected 2020 to be a “crunch year” for the biodiversity and climate emergencies a make or break year in which key international meetings would set the tone and agenda for
sustainability in the decade ahead, including the UN CBD (15th Conference of the Parties – COP15 – to the Convention on Biological Diversity) and the UNFCCC (26th COP to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change – COP26). While COVID-19 dominated the policy agenda and led to the postponement of key UN conferences, its causes and impacts have emphasized the severity of risk societies face from the climate and nature crises and the urgent need to reverse nature loss and restore and conserve highvalue ecosystems. There is increasing evidence that human overexploitation of nature is a key factor causing the outbreak and spread of new diseases such as COVID-19.

The effective functioning of the Earth’s systems is fundamentally reliant on nature. The Earth’s climate has co-evolved with nature over the history of the planet and they continue to shape each other through a complex pattern of interactions. Climate produces the conditions for nature to thrive, while nature
regulates climate through the carbon and water cycles. Land-use change is one of the largest drivers of climate change and is also the single biggest environmental driver of new zoonotic disease outbreaks, such as COVID-19.

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