


Yesterday, Coastal First Nations - Great Bear Initiative announced a blueprint for a network of marine protected areas marking an important step towards protecting a globally rare and productive ecosystem, while supporting the strength and resilience of coastal communities and bolstering marine-based economies. Our Salesforce Nature Policy Priorities are guiding our support for strong regulation and a global level playing field, including for Target 15 on nature disclosure: Ĭheck out the session video ➡️ Akanksha Khatri World Economic Forum 1t.org #COP15 #ClimateAction #Nature #NetZero #NaturePositive #Biodiversity A shift at C-level in the private sector from seeing sustainability as only a risk- or cost-factor to seeing it as a major business opportunity – this means large investment increases in nature-based solutions, further accelerated by fiscal policy reform. Unprecedented business interest in COP15 also drove more interest from governmentsģ. The urgency of the climate and nature crisis is now much more widely understoodĢ. Looking back at 2010, when I attended COP 10 and the world adopted the ‘Aichi Targets’ in a similar effort to save nature, three things are different this time:ġ. I enjoyed being a part of this conversation and sharing my personal reflections on attending COP 15. To debrief on what the outcomes of COP 15 mean for businesses, Accenture and Business for Nature brought Camilla Drejer, Eva Zabey, Christina Niemelä Ström, Xinqing (Joanne) Lu, and me together to discuss. It includes ambitious targets such as protecting 30% of all land and sea by 2030 and reforming 500 billion USD of environmentally harmful subsidies per year by 2030. The Framework is now making its way into national laws. At the Convention on Biodiversity COP 15 last December, the world’s governments adopted a new set of goals and targets to guide action through 2030 to halt and reverse nature loss: the Global Biodiversity Framework.
