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Read more at: New report aims to encourage more sustainable practices in the dairy sector
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New report aims to encourage more sustainable practices in the dairy sector

22 January 2016

25 January 2016 – The importance of natural resource security for dairy production was highlighted today at an event at the House of Lords, on the occasion of the launch of a new report on natural capital and the dairy sector.


Read more at: Leading businesses commence testing of a new Natural Capital Protocol
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Leading businesses commence testing of a new Natural Capital Protocol

12 October 2015

13 October 2015 – Today, over 40 leading businesses will be the first to see the new draft of the Natural Capital Protocol, being developed by the Natural Capital Coalition. The testing programme will be led by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, a member of the Coalition.


Read more at: The voice of eighty businesses to develop the new Natural Capital Protocol
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The voice of eighty businesses to develop the new Natural Capital Protocol

15 July 2015

16 July 2015 – The Natural Capital Coalition has today released a new report that represents a snapshot of opinion from more than eighty businesses about the current state of play of natural capital measurement and valuation.


Read more at: Value Retail and Kering join the Natural Capital Leaders Platform

Value Retail and Kering join the Natural Capital Leaders Platform

1 April 2015

1 April 2015 – We welcome two new members to the Natural Capital Leaders Platform.


Read more at: Business leaders come together to discuss commercial logic for action on environment
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Business leaders come together to discuss commercial logic for action on environment

6 March 2015

3 March 2015 – Senior decision-makers from 20 leading international companies including Mars, Nestlé and Olam have met to discuss the need to build commercial logic for business to protect the environment at scale.


Read more at: University of Cambridge to provide business case for safeguarding nature
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University of Cambridge to provide business case for safeguarding nature

11 February 2015

17 February 2015 – The Natural Capital Leaders Platform member businesses have collaborated in producing a report that underlines natural capital challenges and the potential business opportunities from appropriate management responses and investments.


Read more at: Nexus thinking: can it slow the Great Acceleration?
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Nexus thinking: can it slow the Great Acceleration?

November 2014 – In July 2014, the Nexus Network commissioned 13 think pieces with the remit of scoping and defining nexus approaches, and stimulating debate across the linked domains of food, energy, water and the environment. The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Jake Reynolds and Gemma Cranston have co-written a think piece entitled ‘Nexus thinking: can it slow the Great Acceleration?’ that explores how business success and corporate decision-making could be shaped by nexus thinking.


Read more at: Putting a Price on Our Future

Putting a Price on Our Future

26 November 2014

07 October 2013 - The University of Cambridge Research website features the Natural Capital Leaders Platform: how it is helping big businesses consider their impact on the environment by evaluating and placing a value upon these, currently uncosted, impacts. This leads to a re-evaluation of activities to combine profitability with sustainability.


Read more at: Second Nature, embedding the Platform’s shared innovation into business
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Second Nature, embedding the Platform’s shared innovation into business

26 November 2014

26 November 2013 - Second Nature, a University of Cambridge Natural Capital Leaders Platform event, launched a suite of innovative web-based tools to help global businesses better manage the goods and services from nature upon which they rely at The Royal Society in London.


Read more at: E.Valu.A.Te and Metrics Selection Framework reports published

E.Valu.A.Te and Metrics Selection Framework reports published

26 November 2014

01 December 2013 - The Natural Capital Leaders Platform has published its reports to support the suite of innovative web-based tools launched at the Second Nature event (see below).