Business and the Environment

Did you know that a Global Biodiversity Symposium is being held in London next week? I hope it receives more attention then than it has so far, for it is important, examining as it will the relationship between business and nature and how the two should co-exist.

We are more than halfway through this the year of Biodiversity and how much has happened in this area so far?  Not much, it seems. A sad negative is that countries around the world have failed to meet their 2002 pledge to reduce nature loss by 2010.

What is encouraging is that a major report, to be discussed next week at the meeting, has concluded that if business plays a major role in protecting ecosystems it benefits everybody.  Perhaps, when it is recognised that working with nature rather than taking advantage of it actually generates profit, something more than paying lip service will be done. There is time, just.