Defining the nature-positive economy: key concepts, challenges, and ways forward

Economic activities continue to drive unprecedented biodiversity loss. Our current dominant economic system does not fully recognise and incorporate the values of nature into decision- and policy-making 1 , 2 . Amongst 750 influential global companies, only 2% disclosed a nature transition plan 3 . Moreover, current biodiversity finance remains vastly overshadowed by the scale of funding to nature-negative activities by a 1:30 ratio 4 . One key strategy to advance transformative change for a just and sustainable world is to transform economic systems with nature and equity as central objectives 5 , 6 .