Our planet faces big challenges, but community initiatives can make a difference. Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya highlights how restoring Tanzania’s Manyara Ranch benefits people and wildlife. Frans Schepers shows nature can heal itself with the right support, while Francisco Delgado shares how local projects, like lighting a soccer field, reduced hunting and boosted development. These are key takeaways from this week’s article.

Leaders from major environmental organizations have given their answers on how we can reshape business practices for a more harmonious relationship with nature. In this article, you can read the key point takeaways on how there are dual benefits of biodiversity and climate action if policy recommendations and successful collaborations are implemented.

The Corcovado Foundation aims to conserve Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula biodiversity through partnerships and community engagement. Their key goals include supporting protected areas, promoting education, ensuring sustainable resource use, and fostering socio-economic benefits.

Dive into this week's article, featuring Martin Harper, CEO of BirdLife International, as he shares profound insights into how BirdLife tackles biodiversity loss and climate change through global collaborations. Explore inspiring case studies illustrating the imperative of valuing nature for a sustainable future.

This week, the CEO of The African Wildlife Foundation, Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya, shares how AWF leads African conservation with a clear focus: thriving people and wildlife. AWF integrates science, solutions, and policy across 10 countries and 17 landscapes, driving sustainable development.

This week, Bo Øksnebjerg from WWF shares profound insights on their goals, business collaborations, and visionary initiatives for a sustainable future. WWF is committed to ambitious targets: reserving 30% of land and water for nature, halving humanity's footprint, and restoring ecosystems.

In this week's article in What on Earth, Maria Reumert Gjerding, President of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, shares her insights on how biodiversity deserves as much attention as climate considerations.

In this first article in our new series, What on Earth, we have had the privilege of interviewing Marco Lambertini, Convener at Nature Positive Initiative. Through nine questions, Lambertini provides us with invaluable insights into the transformative power of our collective efforts.

In this week’s edition of What on Earth, Liselotte Hohwy Stokholm, CEO at the think tank Ocean Institute, offers a crucial piece of advice to both Danish and international environmental authorities: “Start thinking and acting like businesses”

This week Frans Schepers, the co-founder and Executive Director of Rewilding Europe, shares invaluable insights into rewilding principles and the organization's impactful efforts in promoting nature recovery across Europe. Discover who Rewilding Europe collaborates with and gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities and obstacles encountered in their nature restoration work.

Saving our climate might be complex and research from University of Manitoba, Canada, on bio waste material turned into building material with fungi still has some way to go before it can be commercialized and mass produced. But it can turn out to be one of the ways to help save our environment.

Despite being a frontrunner in sustainability, Denmark is struggling with its circular economy, particularly within the construction sector which is responsible for the biggest carbon and material footprint. Denmark’s economy is only 4 percent circular, considerably lower than the circularity metric for the global economy, measured at 7.2 percent.

With 10 new principles, the UIA World Congress for Architects hopes for radical change in the built environment to reach the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. More than 6,000 international architects, and researchers stand guard for the challenge called the ‘Copenhagen Lessons’.

Under a new UK Biodiversity Net-Gain policy, developers have three ways to offset their ‘biodiversity liability’ – the damage their project does to nature – and deliver a biodiversity net gain of 10% . The Biodiversity Net-Gain law aims to halt the decline in one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries.

The future calls for more dedication from those involved in construction or renovation, emphasizing sustainability from design to financing. Valuable time and insights are lost when individuals stick to traditional practices, being accountable for their specific project roles but failing to adopt a more holistic approach.

Many sustainability terms, including ‘biodiversity’ or ‘green,’ are terms used so uncritically today that they have almost lost their meaning. We need to remember why biodiversity is important – it is about the planet’s resilience to climate change more than having some lovely green spaces. Developers and urban planners must stop taking biodiversity as “hostage”.

Currently, there is no publicly available data on how much the construction site contributes to the climate impact of the overall construction. This is due to a lack of data on construction sites’ consumption of materials, electricity and fuel, which is not necessarily routinely collected by contractors.

Biodiversity and construction are two areas that are increasingly intertwined, and biodiversity represents both a recently recognized challenge and opportunity. Collaboration, data sharing, technological innovation, and a changed perception of nature’s role in the built environment can be paths to follow.

First insights from a Danish research project on micro homes reveals the need for new legislation and a mind switch from “my house” to “our future.”

Increasing use of wood contributes to creating more sustainable construction and buildings. But how sustainable is it if we are depleting the forests to meet industry demands without increasing the planting of new trees?