Doing business within Planetary Boundaries
Businesses and investors can play a key role in addressing the climate and nature crisis. But this calls for a shift in practices to measure corporate activities based on what really matters for the health of the planet, according to the new report “Doing business within planetary boundaries“.
“Economic activities are a major reason why humanity is crossing six of the nine planetary boundaries, including climate, biodiversity, water and land. This could make large parts of the world uninhabitable, and also make business impossible or much more costly”, says professor Beatrice Crona, main author of the report that was launched at Norrsken Impact Week in Barcelona today.
The report argues that by anchoring corporate activities in the scientifically developed planetary boundaries framework, businesses can be drivers of transforming societies towards sustainability. But this calls for having full and accurate information about corporate environmental performance.
“What gets measured gets done” says Beatrice Crona.
The report builds on ten years of transdisciplinary science, combining sustainable finance with ecological economics, resilience science, and Earth system science.
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