This field guide gives an overview of how businesses across eight sectors, from chemicals to food, impact and depend on nature.
Ceres developed Exploring Nature Impacts and Dependencies: A Field Guide to Eight Key Sectors on behalf of Nature Action 100, the first global investor engagement initiative to address the urgent crisis of nature and biodiversity loss around the world.
The field guide includes eight individual factsheets on each sector.
The factsheets explain the main industry activities associated with the sector and how each sectors’ activities depend on and impact nature.
Since direct engagement with Nature Action 100 companies kicked off last year, more than 200 investors representing over $28.6 trillion in assets under management or advice, are engaging 100 market-leading companies to drive urgent and necessary actions on nature.
The participating investors called on companies to take the steps needed to protect and restore nature and ecosystems in line with the Nature Action 100 Investor Expectations of Companies.
Ceres co-leads the initiative’s global Secretariat and Corporate Engagement Working Group, alongside IIGCC.