Nature Positive Strategy

Realising a future in which people live in harmony with nature is a collective, global challenge. The scale of this task should not be underestimated. An estimated one million species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction, amid a 47 per cent decline in ecosystem extent and condition relative to earliest estimated states.1 However, while it is important to be aware of the devastation of nature that is taking place all around us, it is also critical that we do not allow the magnitude of the challenge to discourage us from taking urgent action to address it.

Guidance on the actions we must take to reverse this trend is close at hand. We know that 91 per cent of lands managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are in good or fair ecological condition.2 For this reason, it is vital that we approach the net zero, nature-positive transition with the knowledge that the goals set out under the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework are unattainable without full inclusion of IP and LCs and their lands.