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Mainstreaming Nature into Business Decision Making
Nature is now a core part of business strategy, not just a CSR issue. As climate and biodiversity risks grow, integrating nature into corporate planning has become essential. Since the release of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures’s (TNFD) 14 recommendations in September 2023, over 500 organizations managing $17.7 trillion in assets have committed to nature-related reporting.
Singapore is leading in Asia, with companies like CDL, UOB, and Olam adopting TNFD disclosures, supported by government grants and capacity-building initiatives. The NUS Sustainability Academy recently hosted a regional TNFD Train-the-Trainer program to expand knowledge and action across Asia Pacific, using new TNFD training materials.
Our Research Associate, Leo, now with the Sustainability Academy at NUS Sustainable Futures, explores how businesses can adopt TNFD guidelines to better understand and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature, in this piece.
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In Brief | November 2023
The Global Stocktake Recognises the Role of Protecting Nature. At COP28, policymakers must respond.
The world is facing a planetary emergency wrought by the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Of the two, it is climate change that has taken centre stage in international discourse on the environmental woes of the planet – for good reason. Over the past year, extreme weather events bearing the fingerprints of climate change have wreaked death and destruction around the world, from heatwaves in Europe to floods in Africa.
These events come amid dire warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ (UN) climate science body, on escalating climate impact due to rising emissions. These developments will add pressure on countries gathering in Dubai in December 2023 for COP28, the UN climate change conference, to secure an ambitious outcome that will help avert catastrophic climate impact. But the world should not take its eye off the other impending crisis of biodiversity loss at COP28.
There are multiple drivers of biodiversity loss, including climate change, overexploitation, habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species. With one million species expected to face extinction in the coming decades, the planet is losing both her richness and abundance of life — with implications for climate action.
Read our brief to find out how research relates to global discussions and how science can contribute to policy decisions to address the planetary crises.
