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Level 1: Getting started on nature
Why does nature loss matter to your company?
Nature is the backbone of the world economy: all businesses depend on nature. Societies cannot survive, let alone thrive, without the essential functions that the natural world provides: clean air, water, food and a stable earth system to exist within. Being part of the problem, business has an important role in both halting and reversing nature loss.
Pitch for nature
Check out this engaging 3-minute video showing a practical example of how a shoe company depends on natural resources and ecosystems, and how they can create value by protecting and enhancing natural capital.
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Business action narrative
This slide deck offers a clear and consistent narrative for engaging the private sector on nature. Developed by Business for Nature in partnership with many partners, it helps unpack how companies interact with natural capital—through their dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs)—and why the nature crisis poses real and tangible risks across supply chains. With growing pressure on business to act, the deck highlights how a nature-positive transition can unlock new revenue streams, cut costs, and reduce risks.
Introductory slide
What is nature?
Interactions between business and natural capital
The Nature-Business Nexus
This slide deck from the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provides you with a framework to think deeply about the nature-business linkages. It provides a broader context on how dependencies and impacts on the natural world bring serious risks to business. It also opens up opportunities to look ahead, for example, through gaining a competitive advantage and shaping sustainability and business performance.
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Why nature-loss is material for your business
This introduces why nature loss is material for your business and explaining how to identify material issues using the ENCORE tool. The primer comes from the SUSTAIN project.
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What actions should a business take on nature?
The High-Level Business Actions on Nature Assess, Commit, Transform, Disclose - otherwise known as the ACT-D framework indicate the interconnected actions a company should take to credibly take action on nature.
ACT-D animation
See this short animation for an overview of the ACT-D framewsork (assess, commit, transform, disclose.
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ACT-D slide deck
In this slide deck you will deep dive into the following topics:
Assess: Understand what natural capital is, the benefits and scope of natural capital assessments, key stakeholders, and the stages of the Natural Capital Protocol.
Commit: Explore how setting public commitments and targets aligns with global frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Transform: Discover strategies for reducing negative impacts, restoring ecosystems, shifting business models, and working across value chains for systemic change.
Disclose: Learn how monitoring, reporting, and aligning with ESG standards and frameworks (like TCFD and TNFD) helps build transparency and accountability.
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ACT-D website
This web page from Business for Nature summarises the ACT-D framework, within inputs from key organisations in the nature space including World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Capitals Coalition, the World Economic Forum (WEF), Science Based Target on Nature (SBTN), the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) and others.
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ACT-D case studies
To see how the framework can and has been applied, here are some high-level case studies. You will learn how pioneering companies are applying the ACT-D approach to better understand their relationship with nature, set credible science-based targets, transform their operations, and improve internal and external reporting.
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What are relevant, impactful actions for my sector?
Sector actions towards a nature positive future
For fifteen high-impact sectors, the provide an overview of the key impacts, dependencies and priority actions for each sector. Each summary is based on and links to more comprehensive reports developed by the partner organizations, Business for Nature, the World Economic Forum and The World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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Roadmaps to nature positive: Foundations for all businesses
If your sector is not covered, check out the Roadmaps to Nature Positive: Foundations for all businesses from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). It provides step-by-step guidance for business to identify the most significant dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs) for their business, which in turn inform priority action areas and transformation levers to accelerate nature action and investment, following the ACT-D steps and highlighting key frameworks, as well as setting out different maturity milestones for each action.
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