Expanding the Leaders for Nature network

In June 2012, IUCN adopted a new Global Business and Biodiversity strategy. The Strategy aims to encourage transformational and demonstrable change at the company and sectoral level how biodiversity is valued and managed by businesses in order to conserve and restore biodiversity and to ensure that biodiversity benefits are shared equitably. The Strategy’s main objective is that business practices at landscape and seascape levels are transformed to generate benefits for biodiversity and natural resource‐dependent livelihoods.

In support of this strategy, IUCN’s Leaders for Nature is expanding internationally. The need for platforms for joint action on biodiversity by companies and NGOs is increasing, as is the willingness from both players. In the upcoming years, IUCN will work with key partners and companies to establish Leaders for Nature networks around the world. These networks will facilitate discussion, learning and action on the topic of business and biodiversity.

India will be the second country, after the Netherlands, where a new Leaders for Nature network will be established. Leaders for Nature in India will be launched during the high level segment of the CBD COP 11 in Hyderabad in October 2012.