All businesses  depend on nature – either directly or indirectly –  for long-term growth and performance. Managing nature risks and impacts is crucial to an organisation’s resilience, access to capital funding, and social license to operate. It is becoming increasingly important for organisations to understand, assess, and properly manage the potential or actual impacts of its operations on the nature and biodiversity that it depends on.

The corporate reporting and regulatory landscape are undergoing significant changes, ushering in a new era of nature-related corporate disclosures. There is also increasing concern and expectations from consumers and investors on how nature and biodiversity-related impacts are being adequately addressed, via the organisation’s sustainability strategies and efforts.

Are you aware of your organisation’s dependencies on nature and its related ecosystem services? Have you started to implement strategies to reduce your impact on nature, and support the global movement to a nature positive world? Are you ready to identify, assess and manage the associated risks and opportunities related to nature?

This course is designed to help businesses start looking at nature as a key material issue, preparing for nature-related corporate disclosure, and implementing key sustainability strategies with efforts to contribute towards nature-positive outcomes. The course will cover the headwinds and upcoming regulatory landscape relating to nature and biodiversity disclosure reporting, including the Taskforce of Nature-based Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 101: Biodiversity. It will also cover the foundations to establishing a corporate nature strategy for your organisation, including the basics of the Science-Based Targets Network (SBTN).