What is Nature Positive?
Nature (covering the water, biodiversity, soil/land, and air/climate realms) continues to decline, with significant negative impacts on society. This is fueled by the way we structure our economies and societies towards the unsustainable extraction and production, use, and consumption of finite, natural resources.

自然正成長 nature positve
Urgent and transformative change across economic, social, political, and environmental systems is needed to ensure that nature is conserved, restored, and used sustainably.
At its core, nature positive is a global societal goal to halt and reverse the loss of nature, so that the global state of nature is improved for the benefit of people and the planet. Achieving this will require action by governments, businesses, and financial institutions. But what does nature positive mean in practice for business?
何謂「自然正成長」?
大自然(包括水、生物多樣性、土壤/土地和空氣/氣候領域)不斷衰退,對社會產生了嚴重的負面影響。我們的經濟和社會結構以不可持續的方式開採、生產、使用和消費有限的自然資源,助長了這一現象。我們需要在經濟、社會、政治和環境系統中進行緊迫的轉型變革,以確保自然得到保護、恢復和可持續利用。
「自然正成長」的核心是一個全球性的社會目標,旨在遏制和扭轉自然的喪失,從而改善全球自然狀況,造福人類和地球。要實現這一目標,需要政府、企業和金融機構採取行動,但「自然正成長」在實踐中對企業意味著什麼?
What is the role of business?
Businesses need to understand their impacts and dependencies on nature, manage their nature-related risks, and embed the value of nature into their decision-making to identify and implement opportunities that contribute towards the nature positive global goal.
Achieving nature positive requires collective action across sectors, value chains, and landscapes. While the most ambitious actions by single companies cannot deliver nature positive if implemented in isolation, individual businesses can and should start taking action across their operations and value chains to contribute to this international goal.
企業的作用是什麼?
企業需要了解其對自然的影響和依賴,管理其與自然相關的風險,並將自然的價值納入其決策中,以識別和實施有助於實現“自然正成長”全球目標的機會。
實現「自然正成長」需要跨部門、跨價值鏈和跨地貌單元的集體行動。單個企業最雄心勃勃的行動如果孤立地實施,將不能實現「自然正成長」的目標,但單個企業可以而且應該開始在其業務運營和價值鏈中採取行動,為這一國際目標做出貢獻。

生物多樣性
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Nature positive requires a transformation in how our global economy operates by embedding the value of nature within institutions and systems (including business) to bend the curve of nature loss by 2050.
- Nature positive cannot be achieved unless business outcomes contribute towards the global goal for nature—collective action is critical. Governments, businesses, communities, Indigenous People, and civil society need to work together.
- A nature positive future needs to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises in tandem, which may include the use of nature-based solutions while ensuring a socially equitable and just transition.
- Nature positive frameworks for business need to create accountability, allow for quantified measurement of progress, and deliver transparent disclosures on both progress and barriers.
- Nature positive is not a replacement to the mitigation hierarchy but builds upon it by expanding into the supply and value chains and across business portfolios, with a strong focus on impact avoidance and minimisation measures.
執行摘要
- 「自然正成長」要求轉變我們的全球經濟運行方式,將自然的價值融入制度體系(包括商業)中,以便在2050年前扭轉自然損失的曲線。
- 除非商業成果有助於實現「自然正成長」的全球目標,否則就無法實現積極保護自然的目標——集體行動至關重要——政府、企業、社區、原住民和民間社會需要共同努力。
- 「自然正成長」的未來需要同時協力應對氣候危機和生物多樣性危機,這可能包括使用基於自然的解決方案,同時確保社會公平和公正的過渡。
- 企業的「自然正成長」框架需要建立問責制,允許對進展進行量化衡量,並實施透明的進展和障礙信息披露制度。
- 「自然正成長」並不是要取代「分級減緩體系」,而是在「分級減緩體系」的基礎上,將其擴展到供應鏈、價值鏈和跨業務組合中,重點關注避免影響和影響最小化的措施。
以上材料取自 “Nature positive for business”Developing a common approach,IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, byStacey Baggaley, Mark Johnston, Julie Dimitrijevic, Camille Le Guen, Pippa Howard, Leo Murphy, Hollie Booth and Malcolm Starkey.
何謂 mitigation hierarchy 分級減緩體系 ?
「Mitigation Hierarchy(分級減緩體系)」是一種用於環境管理和決策的框架,旨在減少專案、活動或開發過程中對環境的負面影響,尤其是對生物多樣性和自然資源的影響。它強調通過一系列優先順序的措施來降低生物多樣性及環境破壞,並力求達到「避免、減少、修復」的目標。
分級減緩體系通常包含以下四個階段:
- 避免(Avoidance):首先要避免對環境的任何負面影響。如果可以避免對生態系統或生物多樣性有害的活動,那是最理想的。這包括重新設計專案或選擇不同的地點,以減少可能的環境破壞。
- 減少(Minimization):當無法完全避免環境影響時,下一步是採取措施減少這些影響的程度。例如,透過減少資源使用、優化生產工藝或縮小專案規模來降低環境損害。
- 修復(Restoration):對於無法完全避免或減少的影響,接下來是修復生態系統或生物多樣性,以恢復受損的環境。這可能包括植樹造林、恢復濕地、修復棲息地等。
- 抵消(Offset):當環境影響不可避免且無法有效修復時,最後的步驟是通過其他方式進行抵消。這通常涉及到在其他地方進行生態抵消,例如通過植樹、恢復棲息地,或投資生態保護專案來抵消環境損害。
分級減緩體系提供了一個系統化的方式來管理環境及生物多樣性風險,鼓勵企業和專案在決策過程中優先考慮環境及生物多樣性保護。