The Model

Impacts and dependencies are addressed across the full scope of nature, including biodiversity (genetic, species, ecosystems and ecosystem services) across land, freshwater, oceans and atmosphere.

Biodiversity and ecosystem impact and dependencies in all parts of a business’s process and within its spheres of influence are covered, direct and indirect operational impacts, cumulative impacts, investments, and services.

Nature positive is a collective effort. Companies must Identify and engage with key stakeholders, including local communities, in the region, and across, value chains, to identify and plan necessary approaches.

Achieving Nature positive outcomes will require significant transformations of the economic, governance and business systems that underpin today’s global economy. For business, this means a commitment to adopting strategies that mainstream Nature Positive practices into business operations.

Nature Positive must be delivered in a manner that safeguards and enhances the rights and livelihoods of the indigenous peoples and local communities which depend on nature and its contribution to people, especially those underrepresented in traditional decision-making processes.

Achieving Nature Positive encompasses landscape-level planning and management of company operations and actions to address nature impacts in the area of influence of operations requiring coordinated planning with government, other companies and stakeholders. This moves companies beyond a traditional project only focus and approach.

Material impacts on nature can often be more important in supply chains compared to direct operations. Addressing nature risk in supply chains are necessary to achieve Nature Positive outcomes.

In a transformation to Nature Positive, the operation must at least achieve the goal of no net loss of biodiversity (and preferably a net gain) for its direct and indirect operational impacts. Nature Positive is achieved through conservation actions undertaken in the border landscape.

Targets and actions should be evidenced-based and integrated, and underpinned by a clear measurement framework that are aligned with global and jurisdictional goals (e.g., GBF, SDGs or NBSAPs) and clearly demonstrate contribution to the global goal of Nature Positive.

Companies should communicate in full transparency on the Nature Positive baseline, Nature Positive targets and actions, progress to target, as well as on challenges which constrain progress.