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Beyond Puma, Coke, Dow: Why more firms value ecosystem services
Forty-seven companies from around the world now mention natural capital and ecosystem services in publicly available materials, based on findings in a new BSR working paper. This figure is a dozen more than we documented in 2013. As more companies explore and engage with ecosystem services issues, the business case for corporate action on biodiversity and ecosystem services, which are the key metrics for measuring natural capital, continues to strengthen.
Opinion: The Next Hollywood Blockbuster on Cities, Technology & the Unexpected Role of Nature - Ecosystem Marketplace
Los Angeles is languishing under a toxic plume of methane, while the people of Flint, Michigan, can’t drink their water. Everywhere you look, modern cities are suffering dystopian dilemmas that can easily be remedied by partnering with nature, says Sissel Waage. This story first appeared on Huffington Post. You can view the original here. 26 January 2016 | Imagine a Hollywood movie focused on technologies of the future and how they are going to change society.
Coca-Cola, Apple, Dow see fertile ground for investing in natural capital
Imagine solving a key problem that your company faces with a solution that is effective, far lower cost than alternatives and so straightforward that teachers could describe it to children.By the way, assume that this problem is fundamental to the business, highly technical and deeply contentious with local stakeholders.Think poor water quality flowing from a factory, which is not compliant with local laws; or the focus of environmental lawsuits filed by outraged local residents or activists.
How climate change and natural capital are changing banking
The climate in financial institutions is changing.
Business Relevance of Natural Capital, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Assessing the Current State of Play
As natural capital, biodiversity and ecosystem services are terms that are increasingly bandied about, a few questions are increasingly being whispered by corporate colleagues that are worth answering: Simply put, the conveners of the 2013 World Forum on Natural Capital explained that “natural capital can be defined as the world’s stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living things.
Business Risk, Reward, and Resilience in the Face of Extreme Weather | Blog | BSR
Extreme weather can spark extreme business costs. It matters, therefore, that extreme weather is trending upward—by a factor of three over the past 35 years, according to an analyst with insurer Munich Re. It also matters that businesses can mitigate against these risks and buffer against attendant costs through actions focused on climate resilience.
Nature is talking - are you listening and re-calibrating strategy as needed?
Business success depends on identifying signals amidst noise. Key signals come from customers, suppliers and employees.
Is Your Company Leaving Value On The Table? - Ecosystem Marketplace
Companies that focus only on the bottom line often can’t see over the horizon, and they certainly can’t see how their activities impact others. That impact, long recognized as a looming risk, is increasingly being seen as an opportunity to both secure sustainable supplies of raw materials and win the loyalty of discerning consumers. This story first appeared on GreenBiz 26 October 2016 | What if Steve Jobs had only considered cost, and ignored aesthetics, functionality and other issues?
The Clean Power Plan desperately needs business support
A little more than a year ago, the Paris Agreement on climate change launched a cleaner, more stable, job-generating economy, with the global opportunity for $13.5 trillion dollars in investments (PDF).The story about this new economic opening was easy to miss, as the press coverage focused more on what the climate agreement meant in terms of degrees Celsius and parts per million in the atmosphere than on what it means as a business opportunity.
Is your company leaving value on the table?
What if Steve Jobs had only considered cost, and ignored aesthetics, functionality and other issues? He would never have sparked innovations core to Apple products. “Think different” was fundamentally about expanding the set of factors that mattered in designing the company’s products. Of course, cost mattered – and so did other factors. Immensely. Few question the importance of expanding the opportunity space, to consider how products or companies can benefit people.
Closing the gap between seeing and doing for corporate supply chains
"I don’t know" is becoming less plausible for corporate representatives to say when it comes to understanding various supply chain impacts and risks, from deforestation to water, biodiversity and related human rights issues.The era of tracking and transparency has met the era of (near) real-time Big Data, within a context of corporate supply chains and over-burdened natural systems.With a few clicks on your computer — or taps on any cell phone — corporate decision-makers can access data and...
The business rationale for investing in nature
The business rationale for investing in ecological restoration and nature-inspired biomimicry solutions is coming into sharper focus. The business case is simply built on effectively and efficiently addressing core business issues.
Don't Be The Last One To Hear About The Business Benefits Of Investing In Nature
BSR, the Business for Social Responsibility organization, published a new report this week that, in pictures, words and numbers, demonstrates the business benefits of nature-based solutions. Here, BSR’s Sissel Waage explains the importance of illustrative case studies and the relatively slow, though accelerating, uptake from the private sector to invest in nature. 4 May 2016 | Do you ever feel that you are the last one to know something important?
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