Biodiversity loss: no future for business as usual

• Authors: Philip Linsley , Rasha Abdelbadie , Roba Abdelbadie

Abstracts

EN

There is an urgent need to reverse biodiversity loss as has been identified in a wide range of reports. This short commentary article considers the need for businesses to act on biodiversity and nature loss. In particular, the focus of the article is a statement issued in November 2022 by a number of businesses imploring governments to take action to address biodiversity loss. The businesses are petitioning for government action on the basis that they can only pledge to radically change their business models if there is political certainty in respect of government actions on biodiversity. This commentary considers this November 2022 statement and sets out relevant context for understanding the statement.

Keywords

EN

biodiversity; nature loss; COP15; Convention on Biological Diversity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Studies in Risk and Sustainable Development
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 397
• Pages: 1-5

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Philip Linsley

• School for Business and Society, University of York, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000000320055079

author

Rasha Abdelbadie

• School of Business, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000000337396128

author

Roba Abdelbadie

• School for Business and Society, University of York, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/000000018462466X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.22367/srsd.2023.397.2

Biblioteka Nauki

2195371