Operationalizing transformative change for business in the context of Nature Positive

• DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.06.003
• Publication Date: 2024-07-05T14:51:57Z
• Authors: Hollie Booth; E.J. Milner-Gulland; Nadine McCormick; Malcolm Starkey
• Keywords: Transformative Learning

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) includes a specific target for reducing businesses' negative impacts on biodiversity and increasing their positive to contribute toward the GBF mission vision. "Nature Positive" is also emerging as rallying call mainstreaming GBF. Merely tinkering with business usual will not deliver these ambitions; transformative change needed. However, how operationalize Nature Positive through meaningful actions targets remains unclear, risking confusion, greenwashing, failure achieve global goals. This perspective draws literature social offer practical framework understanding operationalizing future. We define describe role of within ambition summarize different types scales companies could take. help plan mutually reinforcing improve accountability claims.