On December 19, a few days after most of SA switched off the lights and headed out of the office for a much-needed break, delegates at the UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties in Montreal closed off their conference with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030.
While corporate SA has improved a great deal with respect to climate change action and reporting in recent years, the same cannot be said of developments in the biodiversity space. I have lamented this nearsightedness a great deal in the past, as the scientific community regards biodiversity and climate change as two sides of the same coin...