Strengthening Understanding and Strategies of Business to Assess and Integrate Nature

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。正如欧盟2030年生物多样性战略所证明的那样，在过去十年中，人们对这一事实的认识大大提高。然而，为了实现“扭转”生物多样性丧失曲线所需的对自然有利的结果，仍然需要进行变革性的、全系统的变革。虽然经济行为者解决生物多样性问题的商业案例在某些部门变得越来越清晰，但在其他部门，特别是那些与自然直接互动较少的部门，仍然缺乏这种商业案例。SUSTAIN（加强对企业评估和整合自然的理解和战略）将汇集多方利益相关者和多学科团队，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。该项目将以商业和生物多样性领域的现有工作为基础，开发和验证商业依赖关系和影响的数据库，开发行为体可用于减少生物多样性相关风险的方法，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相关者沟通的现有网络和专业知识，推动这些资源的利用。

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 biodiversity related 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.