Asian companies must reckon with their impact on the natural world

Business leaders need to mitigate against risk of ecosystem collapse

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Indonesia's Sumatra island in 2010: Only 15% of influential food and agriculture companies have committed to halt conversion of wild landscapes into farmland. © Reuters

Jenni Black is nature transformation lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance, an organization assessing companies on their contributions to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Pallavi Kalita is Asia lead at Business for Nature, a coalition campaigning for corporate action on biodiversity.

A year after the conclusion of the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, it is clear that business is not doing its part to advance the targets set then by world leaders of protecting 30% of the planet's land and seas and restoring 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030. 

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