A-Track

?? Calling all business professionals! What are your biggest barriers or challenges in taking action for nature? Please share 5-10 minutes of your time to complete the A-Track project survey and help us better understand how corporate action for nature can be accelerated. ? By completing the survey, you’ll help to shape and gain access to project outputs such as training materials, guides, and case studies. ? https://lnkd.in/eYDpUqSh

What barriers do companies face when integrating nature into decision-making? Our latest publication, developed by WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development with support of other project partners, features insights from 84 business leaders and stakeholders on current business needs: ?? Key findings:? ? Two-thirds of respondents have a nature strategy—but adoption and approaches vary widely? ? Data access and sector-specific insights remains a challenge, limiting informed decision-making? ? Few businesses use tools like footprinting & life cycle assessments, though interest is rising? ?Leadership & cross-department collaboration are critical for success We’re aiming to bridge these gaps by building business capacity, enhancing existing tools and fostering collaboration across?businesses, NGOs, governments, and academia. By making nature a core part of business strategy, business can help to drive transformational change and build a truly nature-positive economy. ?? Explore the findings & recommendations in our new report: https://lnkd.in/eKczPAij

How can businesses look beyond first steps to contribute meaningfully to global #NaturePositive goals? ? Join Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) on 11 December for an interactive #webinar exploring business model transformation in the context of a recent A-Track report. ? ?? Read report: https://lnkd.in/eEbsc622 ??? Register now: https://lnkd.in/eFYhStiZ

??Two years ago in Montreal, the world witnessed a landmark achievement: an ambitious global agreement to protect and restore nature by #2030. ??It was the first time that the private sector showed up in force at a nature summit. As part of this, over 400 companies with revenues totalling over $2 trillion asked policymakers to make nature disclosures mandatory. ??But, for all the talk and optimism, economy-wide solutions remain virtually non-existent. Business responses are often focused on small nature projects with insufficient focus on the market infrastructure and incentives needed to drive action at scale. Addressing these issues will require a different level of dialogue between the public and private sectors, going beyond platitudes to redesign markets, subsidies, and economic incentives. ??This is why Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Institute for Sustainability Leadership is working with partners from across Europe on the A-Track project to tackle these systemic problems, looking at how to support and scale business models. ??Our two new reports, released today as part of the project, demonstrate how businesses and financial institutions can go beyond low return, piecemeal actions to systemic changes that incorporate nature and generate positive value for the environment and economy. ??"Scaling finance for nature: barrier breakdown" and "Better business: rethinking value for nature positive outcomes" look at how scaling nature-positive-aligned business models must be adopted to halt and reverse nature loss and how private commercial capital can be used already today to reduce pressure on nature and enable these systemic changes. ??Read the reports: https://lnkd.in/enp3-XtK These reports are the first in CISL's Restoring Nature campaign, which is activating leadership to reshape our economies and rebuild markets so they properly value, respect, protect and restore nature.? ? These reports were written by Sara Taaffe (CISL), Corinne Martin (CISL), Robert Barker (CISL), with significant contributions from A-Track consortium partners Capitals Coalition UNEP-WCMC IDEEA group and TECNALIA Research & Innovation (Scaling Nature Finance) Anum Yousaf Sheikh with support from Sanna Markkanen, Edmund Dickens and Harry Greenfield (Better Business) at CISL. The authors are grateful for the contributions of Eliot Whittington, Beverley Cornaby, Ben Kellard, Sam Laakkonen, Jie Zhou and Jordan Viola (CISL); Guy Duke, Rosimeiry Portela, Graeme Nicholls and Tom McKenna (Capitals Coalition); Nadine McCormick (WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Fernando Círez Oto (TECNALIA Research & Innovation) #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth #ATrack #NaturePositive #Sustainability #SustainableBusiness #SustainableFinance Lindsay Hooper Centre for Sustainable Finance (CISL)

Voice of the people. Capacity building. Challenging the Status Quo. We are getting ready for #COP16 Find out more on the events we are curating or co-hosting and join us in Cali ?? ?https://bit.ly/4gU6Fay #biodiversity #nature #Colombia

How can we embed our often invisible relationship with nature ?? in the way our businesses ?? and financial institutions ?? work? How can we recognise nature's complexity in how we shape the economies of the future? ?? Extremely excited to be involved at the Capitals Coalition as lead partner of the newly launched A-Track project. Over the coming 4 years, we'll be working together with some of the most amazing partners. We will harmonise current thinking to build a fertile ground for our economy to truly contribute to a nature-positive world. ?? Complete our survey identifying business needs in integrating nature into decisions now! Takes ~10 minutes: https://lnkd.in/epxcHVEB Rosimeiry Nadine Louise Judit Lenka Karina Guy Martin Mark Natalie Tom Mary Martine Carl Catarina Fernando Círez Harry Sara James

How can we accelerate corporate action on nature? On May 6 we launched a survey on what businesses need to accelerate action on nature. In a new blog on the A-Track website Karina Mereuta and Maria Campos share details on the survey including why we are conducting the survey, why you should complete it and some initial findings. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eMAhY9sX

A-Track project has started and it aims to accelerate business, finance, and government #action for #nature. It will do so by developing practical tools and resources tailored to key functions. ?? Take a few minutes to complete this #survey and actively shape the project's outputs such as training materials, guides & case studies across regions and industries. ?? https://lnkd.in/e_Vnu4kH

We are part of A-Track: a new four-year, €11 million project that will accelerate action for nature by business, financial institutions and government. ?? ? A-Track works with leading experts who are driving the further development of methods and tools for the assessment and valuation of natural capital and #biodiversity. Existing tools and approaches will be brought together and further developed to enable companies, financial institutions and governments to accelerate action for #nature. ?? ? As a partner in A-Track, our institute will develop a harmonized approach based on #lifecycleassessment (#LCA) and natural capital accounting. ? ??Find out more at: a-track.info

We're extremely proud to be part of A-Track, a new four-year, €11 million project that will accelerate action for nature by business, financial institutions and government. A-Track is working with leading thought leaders and practitioners who have been driving change in the measurement and valuation of natural capital and biodiversity. Existing tools and approaches are being brought together and developed further to enable businesses, financial intuitions, and governments to accelerate action for nature. Our role in the project focuses on engaging and influencing the accounting profession, leveraging our global network of members that lead and advise organisations across all areas of the economy. As a member of the consortium, we are looking forward to collaborating with the Capitals Coalition, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), UNEP-WCMC, IDEEA Group, VITO, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Oppla and the University of Stuttgart. Read more in our article here ?? #icaewSustainability Alan Vallance Richard Spencer Iain Wright Toby Roxburgh