Strengthening Understanding and Strategies of business To Assess and Integrate Nature (SUSTAIN)

我们的全球经济本质上依赖于自然，同时也在自然退化中发挥着重要作用。对这一事实的认识在过去十年中大幅增长，欧盟2030年生物多样性战略就证明了这一点。然而，仍然需要在全系统范围内进行变革性的变革，才能取得“扭转生物多样性丧失的曲线”所需的自然积极成果。虽然经济行为者在某些领域解决生物多样性问题的商业理由正在变得更加清晰，但在其他领域仍然缺乏，特别是那些与自然更不直接互动的领域。可持续发展(加强企业评估和整合自然的理解和战略)将汇集一个多利益攸关方和多学科小组，以加强对所有经济活动如何依赖和影响生物多样性的理解和认识。该项目将在商业和生物多样性领域现有工作的基础上，开发和验证商业相关性和影响的数据库，开发行为者可用来减少与生物多样性有关的风险的方法，以及支持其应用的工具箱。该联盟将通过传播有针对性的商业案例材料，利用与企业、金融机构和其他关键利益攸关方沟通方面的现有网络和专业知识，推动这些资源的吸收

Our global economy is intrinsically dependent on nature, and at the same time is playing a major role in its degradation. Recognition of this fact has grown substantially in the past decade, as evidenced in the EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030. However, transformative, system-wide changes are still needed to achieve the nature-positive outcomes required to 'bend the curve' of biodiversity loss. While the business case for economic actors to address biodiversity is becoming clearer in some sectors, it is still lacking in others, particularly those more removed from direct interactions with nature. SUSTAIN (Strengthening Understanding and Strategies of business To Assess and Integrate Nature) will bring together a multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary team to strengthen understanding and awareness of how all economic activities depend and impact on biodiversity. The project will build on existing work within the business and biodiversity space to develop and validate a database of business dependencies and impacts, develop methods that actors can use to reduce biodiversityrelated risks, and a toolbox to support their application. The consortium will drive uptake of these resources through dissemination of targeted business case materials, drawing on existing networks and expertise in communicating with businesses, financial institutions and other key stakeholders