A blueprint for business to transition to a nature-positive future

Combating climate change is vital but will not be sufficient to halt the nature crisis.

Climate change is currently responsible for 11-16% of biodiversity loss, a proportion expected to rise. But the remaining 85% is caused by other drivers – the most significant being land, sea and ocean use conversion.

To prevent a collapse of the Earth systems upon which all economies depend, governments, businesses and citizens must tackle all major drivers of biodiversity loss, and collectively evaluate and optimise land use, especially for agriculture and urbanisation.

Full article here.

One of the most robust laws on climate change yet has been created in Denmark. Can legislation really make failing to act on climate change illegal?

The short-term cycles of government can be a real problem for climate change. Even if climate goals are laid down in law, there can often be few concrete measures to stop a succession of governments from taking decisions that collectively end up with them being missed.

Full article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200706-the-law-that-could-make-climate-change-illegal

7 predictions for the new normal post-pandemic

“Futurist Gerd Leonhard, who is based in Zurich, says the threat of the pandemic has caused a “global reset” that he predicts will take two or three years to iron out.

“The rules of capitalism are changing,” he says. “We cannot strictly apply only financial benefits to a relationship, and that’s become clear in the treatment of the virus.””

7 predictions for the new normal post-pandemic
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2020/07/01/7-predictions-for-new-normal-post-pandemic
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‘Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was,’ Airbnb CEO says

“I will go on the record to say that travel will never, ever go back to the way it was pre-COVID. It just won’t,” Chesky told Axios. “There are sometimes months when decades of transformation happen.””

‘Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was,’ Airbnb CEO says
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/travel-will-never-ever-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-airbnb-ceo-says-2020-06-28
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Airbnb CEO: It took Us 12 Years to Build, and We Lost Almost Everything in 6 Weeks

“Tourism as we knew it is over. I don't want to say that the journey is over, but rather that the model we knew has died and will not return. We are going to get in our cars, drive a few kilometers to a small community and stay in a house.”

Airbnb CEO: It took Us 12 Years to Build, and We Lost Almost Everything in 6 Weeks
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352419
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