Bridging the Gap: Why the Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative Exists

As the global business community meets in Davos for the World Economic Forum, it faces a defining challenge. Three-quarters of the world's land surface is now significantly altered, over one million species face extinction, and seven of our nine planetary boundaries have already been breached. These accelerating pressures represent a societal concern on par with climate change—a strategic risk to business, government, and society at large.

For companies operating in land-intensive and resource-dependent sectors, the message is clear: economic resilience is inseparable from ecological resilience.

Who We Are and Why We Exist

The Nature Positive Landsacpes (NPLI) was established to address a critical industry challenge: the need for corporate action on nature, coupled with the lack of a practical pathway and clear incentive for companies to commit to a Nature Positive ambition.

While global policy sets the target—halting and reversing nature loss by 2030—NPLI is developing the operational roadmaps. We act as a convening and enabling organisation, bringing together industry, civil society, academia, Indigenous peoples and local communities, and government to define, clarify, and test the transformational approaches industry requires to contribute to the global goal of Nature Positive.

Moving Beyond Theory to Action

True transformational change cannot be achieved in isolation by single sectors or institutions. NPLI works through partnership and collaboration, building on diverse knowledge and experience across key public and private sector actors. Through shared understanding of ambition and collective action, we are bridging the gap between local implementation and global aspiration.

Our growing community of partners includes industry and finance, governments and regulators, Indigenous peoples and local communities, scientific and conservation institutions, philanthropy and development organisations. Together, we are designing and testing a replicable framework for collective action at the landscape level—one that redefines how companies engage with nature and collaborate with stakeholders.

Why Landscape-Scale Action Matters

Measurable and material Nature Positive outcomes are determined at the landscape scale, where industries, communities, and ecosystems intersect. Nature loss is driven by cumulative pressures across landscapes, not isolated project impacts. This means site-based mitigation alone cannot reverse biodiversity decline.

Companies that continue to manage nature impacts only within project boundaries are addressing symptoms while the underlying pressures continue to erode the natural systems their business depends on. The solution requires moving beyond site-level mitigation to landscape-scale transformation and broader system change.