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In 2022 and 2024 we undertook surveys with two samples of British senior business decision makers to find out how they think about, or are seeking to integrate nature and biodiversity, into their business activities. The results are analysed below, and provide a baseline understanding from which we can advance business and biodiversity work.

Based on these surveys, we make three recommendations, for academics, business advisors and businesses themselves, summarised below:

1. All businesses are connected to nature in some way. Business leaders need ecological literacy to understand the issues at stake for the economy from nature and biodiversity disruption. Such literacy will increasingly be expected by customers, business partners, local authorities and environmental protection agencies as well as providers of financial capital.
2. If you are a business at the 'leading edge' of practice in this area, tell others about what you are doing and how you are doing it. Other businesses in your physical location, in your sector or along your value chains will be able to support your work better if they know what you are trying to achieve.
3. Starting to think about your business's dependencies and impacts on nature will increase ecological literacy - exploring the different standards, tools and initiatives listed in the report will help, and there is support available if you wished to start to address nature and biodiversity issues.

The full report can be accessed below and we would encourage all businesses (no matter how mature your thinking is around nature and biodiversity) to read it. The report contains information on the differences between nature and biodiversity, why both dependencies and impacts are relevant, and introduces some tools and frameworks that can be used.

Conducting this survey is not the end of our process. We are offering three FREE webinars so you can develop your knowledge of nature and biodiversity and business links further. Each webinar is offered at two different times to increase the probability that there will be a time to suit you. The webinars are aimed at a business audience who are curious about these topics and wish to gain sufficient knowledge to be able to move forward in their business planning. They may be especially useful for small and medium-sized businesses.

Your facilitators for the webinars are:

The webinars

Webinar 1: Learning about Nature and Biodiversity

Date: 15 Jan 2026

In this webinar a natural science introduction to nature, biodiversity and eco-systems will be provided, along with an explanation of how those aspects impact upon business operations. The ways in which business may depend upon nature and the ways business impacts on nature will be outlined using examples from different industry sectors.

Webinar 2: Starting your journey with tools and frameworks

Date: 12 Feb 2026

In this webinar, we will explain the purpose and distinctive approaches of various tools and frameworks that may support decision making for nature, and / or provide a structure for communicating outcomes to relevant audiences. The various tools and frameworks include Natural Capital Protocol, and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Reporting using the TNFD framework is unlikely to be realistic for many companies, but the framework provides a way of thinking about nature. Central to all approaches is the way in which a business identifies what is relevant for their focus.

Webinar 3: What does 'good' look like in corporate reporting?

Date: 12 Mar 2026

In this seminar we will provide examples of what 'good' reporting looks like, drawn from across the globe and across all types of business activities.

Booking on the webinars

Links to book on the webinars are below, but before clicking on them, please read the following.

Practicalities

The webinars are two identical sessions per date for cater to different time zones.

First Session: 08:00-09:00 GMT / UTC (probably works best for participants on UTC and time zones to the East of UTC -Europe, Africa, Asia/Pacific, etc.)

Second Session: 16:00-17:00 GMT / UTC (probably works best for participants to the West of UTC - Americas, Canada, etc.)

Please note that 'daylight savings' are applied on different dates in different time zones; consider using an online tool to ensure you find out which option works best for you.