Important disclaimer – The policy asks in this consultation do NOT represent Business for Nature’s official position. It is a compilation of proposed policy asks, intended for consultation with our network of businesses, partners and other organizations. Business for Nature’s official policy recommendations will be developed based on the feedback received through this consultation.

Instructions
  • This survey will be open until 1 March 2024. UPDATE - Deadline extended to 4 March CoB.
  • Responses after this date will not be recorded.
  • Complete the survey to the extent that you wish. The survey covers a large number of topics, so please feel free to skim through the topics and feel free to only answer those questions on topics you have a specific view on.
  • The amount of time necessary to complete the consultation depends on the extent you complete the survey.
  • Here is a PDF version and a word version for the survey to help you prepare the responses offline and coordinate with your teams. Please note that draft answers in survey monkey cannot be saved for only input when you are ready to complete the survey.
  • La traducción al español de la encuesta está disponible aquí. Spanish translation of the survey is available here.

About Business for Nature
Business for Nature is a global coalition of more than 85 influential partner organizations as well as forward-thinking companies. Together, we drive credible business action and policy ambition to achieve a nature-positive economy for all by 2030. We provide the courage, comfort and technical expertise to governments so that they adopt, implement and enforce ambitious nature policies and help scale and speed up business action by strengthening, clarifying and amplifying why and how companies should act now.

About this consultation
Business for Nature is updating its foundational high-level policy recommendations that were launched early 2020. Following the adoption of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), we are working on creating an updated set of policy asks with the type of policies needed to ensure the effective implementation of the GBF by businesses and the policy levers needed to accelerate business actions. This consultation includes a long list of options for policy asks that we would welcome your views on. The result of the consultation will be used to develop a clear and concise set of policy recommendations to governments.

Why is it important for businesses to respond
By answering this consultation, you will get insights into evolving regulatory environment and be able to influence the prioritization of the broader leading business voice on nature in the coming years.

Businesses that are serious about meeting their objectives around nature protection, restoration and sustainable use know that the right enabling environment supported by government policies and regulations is critical to accelerate progress. By advocating for pro-nature measures, business can help the adoption of policies that unlock investment, deliver action at scale and contribute to a nature-positive economy faster.

In addition, as business are acting more on nature, their political activity will come under increasing scrutiny to ensure that it is aligned with their announced objectives and multiple stakeholders, like investors and civil society will start holding companies to account, demanding more responsible practices, and monitoring and rating corporate performance on nature advocacy. Taken together, these external pressures create powerful incentives for companies to engage in responsible advocacy .

 For more information on the importance of advocacy, read our “Responsible Policy Engagement Guide for Business”.
Framing narrative of the policy recommendations
Leading businesses understand that economic and social prosperity relies on a healthy natural world. However, current economic practices are putting the earth under ever-increasing pressure. Wildlife is disappearing, sea and land are being degraded, and natural resources are becoming scarce; creating significant risks to our economies, communities, health and livelihoods. Business as usual is not an option anymore. 

Our food system relies on insects pollinating crops. Our medicine supply is inspired by biodiversity. The oxygen we breathe relies on healthy forests and oceans. To resolve the climate crisis, reduce inequality, maintain the wealth of nations and feed a growing global population, we must protect, conserve and restore nature. As well as being the right thing to do, it also makes economic and financial sense. The cost of inaction is too high.

Leading businesses are already taking action to Assess, Commit, Transform and Disclose on nature, following high level actions (ACT-D) on nature. Guidance for business to develop nature strategies are available, supported by several frameworks and tools to assist businesses in this journey, including at sector level.

But voluntary action is not enough and businesses cannot solve these challenges in isolation. To quickly scale and speed up efforts political leadership is needed more than ever to spur more business action and ambition.

This is why more than 1,400 companies with revenues of more than US$ 7 trillion have been calling on governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss in this decade. As such, the Businesses community strongly welcomed the adoption of an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework and now call on Governments to urgently adopt or reform and implement and enforce policies, legislations, regulations and incentives needed for the effective implementation of the Framework.

This is needed to assist committed businesses to accelerate action and engage the rest of the business community. Regulations are crucial to create a level playing field, a stable operating environment and unlock new business opportunities. These policies have the potential to encourage businesses to do more, which in turn leads to more ambitious policies, therefore creating a positive policy-business feedback loop.

Only together will businesses, governments and civil society be able to drive the global systemic and transformative change needed and create the foundation for a shared future for all life on earth.

To be able to contribute at scale to the GBF goals and targets, businesses are urging governments to adopt the following policies, regulations or legislations: [we will then draft the policy asks based on the outcome of this consultation].    
Confidentiality
Responses to this survey are confidential and will not be shared publicly. Some questions are asking you if your company would consider supporting publicly some policy asks, please note that this is NOT an official approval process but just an indication for us. Responses will be aggregated and shared in non-attributed form with the partner organizations of the coalition. Key insights provided by individual respondents will not be shared beyond the Business for Nature Secretariat without your written consent. All data will be stored in compliance with EU data privacy regulation (GDPR) requirements.
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