Topic: Doing Business within Planetary Boundaries
Speaker: Beatrice Crona
Date: March 26, 2025
Time: 15.00-16.00
Location: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/69666290446
Organizers: Mistra Finbio and Sustainable Finance Lab
Listen to Beatrice Crona presenting the report Doing Business within Planetary Boundaries that builds on ten years of transdisciplinary science, combining sustainable finance with ecological economics, resilience science, and Earth system science. The report offers guidance to businesses, investors, and policymakers to significantly improve the reliability of their assessment of nature-related impacts, risks and opportunities.
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. 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. 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.
We know that what gets measured gets done. Therefore, we need to reconsider aspects of corporate reporting, nature-related risk assessments and sustainable investments if we are to deliver on sustainability ambitions. Beatrice talks about key hurdles and how to address them to turn the emerging new reporting and data landscape into a powerful engine for change and sustainability.
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