CBI Economics asked business leaders about managing environmental impact – find out what other firms are doing, and why this conversation matters.
Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the role they play in helping to protect the planet. The focus so far has primarily been on reducing carbon emissions, motivated by national and international targets around 'net zero' and supported by the relative ease of measuring these emissions.
However, businesses will be called on to protect the planet in ways that go beyond climate change. Not only is our world getting warmer, it’s also suffering from unprecedented loss of natural habitats and living species.
When the term 'habitat loss' is mentioned, our minds instantly picture faraway locations like the Amazon rainforest or the Serengeti, places where naturalists like David Attenborough have long captured the public's interest with stunning scenes of wild animals, alongside increasingly alarming warnings over the threats to their survival – but habitat loss is a global issue, and the UK is not immune to this.
According to a study by London's Natural History Museum, the UK h
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