At Work
The workplace has spoken
9/10
employees said employers should consider the impact their business has on nature when making decisions.
89%
think their employers should be doing more to tackle issues such as nature loss and climate change.
70%
said they’d be likely to encourage their company to take action to help nature.
Everyone in every business can be a force for nature.
All workplaces, no matter their size or what they do, have a huge impact on the natural world. This means every business is in a unique position to help solve the nature crisis.
As an employee, you have a powerful voice which can initiate changes to help your company bring nature back from the brink. Your workplace pension could help fund the restoration of habitats, and your supply chain could shift to more nature-friendly practices, having a positive impact on wildlife in the UK and beyond.
You don’t need to be a nature expert to act. Nature’s Workforce has been designed to help you start the conversations that will lead to lasting change.
Join Nature’s Workforce and start transforming how you work to transform our natural world.
“The need to protect and restore nature is something businesses cannot afford to ignore. Without it, supply chains would collapse and most companies couldn’t function. This guide will hopefully spark conversations in firms across the UK and help put nature at the centre of boardroom decisions.
“Our business community is packed with innovative thinkers and pioneering companies, capable of speaking to millions of consumers and influencing government policy. I’ve no doubt we have the ability to tackle the nature and climate crisis – but we need to act fast, and we need to act now.”
Deborah Meadon, Business Leader and Investor
Four films for business
Did you know that the UK is in the bottom 10% for biodiversity globally? This is terrible news for businesses and is causing unprecedented risks to our economy. It’s also a warning sign to other countries to show them the risks of inaction.
To tackle this crisis, we have created 4 films for a business audience to build awareness of the problems and to help businesses turn the tide for nature. Watch just one, or all four films to see how interconnected nature and business really are.
The films were created by Emmy®-award winning Silverback Films, WWF, the RSPB and the National Trust and are designed to be used within organisations all over the country to get the conversation started within the workplace. They are free to screen and share, we just ask you drop us an email to let us know your event is happening (saveourwildisles-business@wwf.org.uk).
Find out about the contributors involved.
Get your workplace involved
Business leaders like Deborah Meaden (business entrepreneur and investor), Dame Sharon White (Chairman John Lewis Partnership), Paul Polman (former CEO, Unilever) and Dr Tony Juniper CBE (Chair, Natural England), and B-corp leaders like Bevis Watts (CEO Triodos Bank UK) and Tom Kay (Founder of Finisterre) share why the nature crisis is bad for business, and how businesses can get involved in the solutions.
The high cost of doing nothing
All business and economic activity relies on nature. In fact, 50% of global GDP is dependent on the planet’s natural resources. But the climate and nature crises are now more serious than ever before. Since 1970 global wildlife populations – indicators of healthy ecosystems – have plummeted by almost 70%, and the UK itself is in the bottom 10% for biodiversity globally – bottom of the G7 and G20.
In 2021 alone, economic loss due to natural catastrophes was US$270 billion. The cost of not dealing with the crisis is predicted to be vastly greater than investment in change and solutions.
What we need to do
- We must halt the harm to nature that businesses and the wider economy are doing
- We must transition to a new way of doing business that protects and restores nature
- We can harness the power of nature to ensure a thriving economy for ourselves and future generations
