Nature guidance series
Imagine a supplier that provides your business with services. The supplier provides essential raw materials, mitigates environmental risks and helps reduce your carbon emissions. Going further, this business partner also enhances the wellbeing of your workforce and strengthens the resilience of the markets and society you operate within. All for zero cost. Is nature the best business partner your organization has ever had?
Nature is the foundation on which all organizations depend. However, nature’s lack of visibility in our financial system means business operations have caused a significant decline in nature and biodiversity, amplified by the capital markets. That loss presents an existential risk to people and the economy.
The good news is that accounting and finance professionals have a vital role to play in shaping a nature-positive economy that supports long-term value creation. Finance teams can help their organizations to understand their nature-related impacts and dependencies and take steps to integrate nature-related risks and opportunities into business strategy and decision-making processes – essential activities for supporting your organization’s most important business partner.
A4S’s nature guidance series is being created to give finance teams the practical guidance and tools to help them fulfil this role.
Developing a business case for nature
You can access the first guide in the series, The Business Case for Nature, below. This guide explains why nature is vital to business and offers clear steps and practical tips for developing the business case for your organization.
Further guidance in the series is under construction with expert input. The series will include detailed guidance for accounting and finance professionals on incorporating nature into your work.
