The Natural Benefits of Including Nature in Water Business Strategy - Uniting Business Live 2021
Channel: Pacific Institute
Date: 12/10/2021

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are a means to addressing several social, corporate and environmental challenges, ranging from poor water quantity, insufficient water volumes to meet the demands of a growing human population, impacts of climate change and significant biodiversity loss. NBS, or a combination of grey-green infrastructure, can be used in both climate adaptation and mitigation by providing multiple, stacked benefits to the water-climate-biodiversity nexus. Current climate conditions require urgent action. This is certainly the time to scale solutions that connect business significantly with nature to reach sustainable progress. However, NBS implementation has been limited across the public and private sectors for a variety of reasons, ranging from inadequate policy frameworks to support deployment, through to a lack of funding and financing opportunities. This session, which features representatives from the public, private and NGO sectors, aims to unpack some of the hurdles and shed some light on solutions to upscaling NBS across sectors and to ensure that collective action in water and climate considers human and natural systems.

Pilar Cruz
CSO, Cargill

Emilio Tenuta
Senior Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Ecolab

Mary Draves
Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President Environmental Health and Safety, Dow

Jason Morrison
President of the Pacific Institute and Head of the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate